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I just went through all this with my 18x48 Intex. I used the 20 mule borax to raise the ph. I went with straight stabilizer in a sock and just walked it around the pool while I was squeezing it. I've been getting liquid chlorine from Walmart. Here it's only $2.50 a gallon and I only need to add...

Been a couple weeks and everything is all good. Still need to get a better vacuum cause the one I have doesn't get all the dirt and stuff completely off the bottom. Manual skimming isn't bad. There's not too much stuff floating around. Levels are real easy now. Most of the time I don't even...

I must say we are definitely enjoying this and once the levels were good, it's not hard keeping em there. Now I have to raise the ph. Going to get some borax I guess. I'll put it in while the little one is taking a nap so it has plenty of time to get where it needs. Already thinking about what...

I wanna look into getting one of those floating skimmers to help and I need a better vacuum. The cheap one I got doesn't get they really small stuff. It's just one of the ones that hooks up to a hose with a bag attached. Saw a battery powered one with an internal bag that I liked. I'll get that...

Ended up taking the gloves off and just messing with the sock, walking around till it was gone. I screwed up and have no more liquid stuff to test the cya, but the fc is between 2-4. So that's good. Gotta pick up some more test stuff when I go get the ph enhancer. The ph is low, but...

Lol! I didn't know! I thought maybe it'd burn me or something. That's what I thought too, but Wasn't gonna argue with the guy. It's actually nice right now! Water is a good temp, I'm "cleaning" it (at least that's what I'm gonna tell the wife) and doing the stabilizer thing. Filter was filthy...

Alright, stabilizer is in a sock and tied to the ladder. Figured that'd be easier. I didn't even have string! Used my mowing bandana. It's clean. No rubber gloves either. Do have some new work gloves that have a rubber bottom, so am gonna use those. Chlorine is at 0 now. Did the calculations...

1st off, I appreciate everything. I have a house to take care of, a 2 year old, 2 dogs and I am studying for a test to better my career. It's not easy to keep reading everything in the pool school over and over atm. For right now, it's easier for me to just ask and answer questions and I greatly...

Don't really know what the exact tc level is cause my test kit only goes to 5. At 5, it's the color of a good banana peel. With what I added to it, it surpassed that and went orange. So I'm guessing 10-15. I know, I need a better test kit. Since the pool was free and I'm poor, lol, I'm doing...

Apparently I'm doing something right. Lol! Tested it before I got into bed and the tc is still high, which I believe is what I want for right now, but the ph also went up. It was at 7.5 which I believe is good. Of course I'll test again in the morning and will test the cya to see if I need more...

Well, water isn't clear yet, but it looks better. It's not murky or anything. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't adding too much. Like I said, the water here is horrible and it'll probably take a little time. Some places it's brown. Luckily we live outside that area. The calculator is what I...

Hello all! I had to drain this 18x48 Intex pool I was given to fix a small leak around the fitting. Now that it's back up with no leaks, I'm adding the chemicals. My little test kit only has a tc/br part and no fc. I wanted to get the chlorine real high to make sure everything was clean. We have...

Again, seems like it worked. Have it filled back up and no leaks. Just treated the water. I fit starts to leak again, I'm gonna say forget it and deal with it if we don't get a new one next year.

Well I screwed up! It wasn't leaking until I bought an Intex skimmer and mucked about with it. Now there's a steady stream flowing down the side. I'm just gonna start over. Gonna drain it while it's raining this weekend, fix the leak properly, iron out all the wrinkles I missed the 1st time and...

Ok, never mind. Seems like it sucks anyway. Was able to make it work if I held the fitting there, but it wasn't any good. Actually sucked in more air then water and really tiny pieces of debris was sucked in, but grass and stuff just floated on by. You can still answer for other people, but I'm...

Considering this is our 1st attempt at trying to maintain a pool, we're going as cheap as possible until we have it down. With that said, we got a summer waves RX1000 pump. Saw the floating skimmer by Intex, so decided to give that a try to make maintaining the floating debris easier. Well, the...

I would do what synergy has suggested before what I did. I just used a vinyl pool repair kit, measured how much I needed, made sure I did way too much, cut a hole in the patch the size of the gasket and glued the patch over the hole. I didn't actually patch the hole. It was just to cover the...

Don't know if this helps or not, but I had the same problem with the leakage between the fitting and the pool myself. The pool was given to me with no pump. We bought a new one, but the old one that was one there had bigger fittings. The hole was stretched out some. The only solution I could...

No leaks today. Got in it and messed around a bit to see if that made a difference. The real test will be this weekend when the wife, son, mom and niece get in it and they play around. Now just need to get a skimmer, vacuum and get the chemicals right to clear it up, but that's just gonna take...

Went and visited a few pool places around town and a patch is the only solution they could suggest. What they have suggested and what I came up with after thinking about it a little more is, to put a vinyl patch over the original hole for the fittings and cut another hole for the fittings. Since...

Thanks! Probably gonna be here a lot. Lol! I've been doing more research and found that there are hose adapter kits. Glad I stopped filling it cause I'm gonna have to drain it down to the intake to see what I can do. Not too big of a deal cause my son is only 2 and he can enjoy it more when it's...

Since I'm new, I hope this is the right place for this. I was given an 18x48 Intex easy set pool. We had to get a new pump because it didn't have the one that used to be with it. This was my grandfather's and he died 6 years ago. Apparently the pump they had on it had a bigger intake and return...