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Do pucks usually lose their ability to dissolve? I have some that are like 5 years old and tried to use them at the end of last season since my cya was low and I was mainly just trying to keep the pool from going green before closing it... But they didn't dissolve very well. Like I put them in...

So my pool is going to be opened in two weeks, and of course I was going to order a new test kit, but I looked at all of my regents from last year and none of them expire until Dec '19 or spring of '20. They were stored in a closet in my basement, which is dry and around 60-65 degrees. I'm...

As the title says, my CYA is down to 30, it was at 50 in June but we've had a bunch of rain and I've had to dump water a few times. Anyway, I get my liquid chlorine from Kroger, which sells a case of 4 gallons of 10% for $10. But they've stopped carrying it. I have a 50 pound bucket of...

We bought our house a year ago and I started taking over the pool using he TFP method, keeping my FC/CYA levels correct all summer long and our pool being beautiful. Then today I discovered that the previous owners had used Bromine, not Chlorine, and googling led me to discover that Bromine...

So this might be a silly question, but it will help settle my anxiety/OCD. The way I test my water is by filling a plastic cup, which is and always has been used solely for testing water and never used to drink from or washed or anything like that, from about a foot below the surface of the...

I just opened my pool, and there is sludge from dead leafs on the bottom of the pool because I did a bad thing and closed last year with leafs in the pool. The leafs have disintegrated into a sludge that, when I vacuum, clogs up the basket filter in my pump to the point that the pump stops...

Hey everyone, hopefully the regulars around here aren't getting tired of being bombarded with questions from pool noobs like me. I am kinda just introducing myself and asking a question. So my wife and I bought our house this past winter and it came with a pool that was built in 2002. I knew...