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Hey all! Every year around this time I cruise on by the forums. Don't make my mistake. I let my husband and his best friend go buy some of that "Green to Blue" from Walmart. I have a very strict "no floc" policy and after he threw it in I realized what he had done. Our pool had been sitting...

So this whole process is going downhill fast for me.... I'm just about ready to fill in the dumb thing and move on with my life. It's been three weeks and no progress. I have spent a small fortune on Fiber Clear and bottles of bleach. I even threw in the towel and shocked the pool with 5...

Well we had a cold front so haven't gotten to the pool yet...going to head out and buy a discharge hose, CYA, and bleach today to get the party started! Unfortunately I'll just have to deal with buying A LOT of Fiber Clear right now, the DE is not very environmentally friendly and we have no...

It is an American Titan Vertical Grid SS DE filter that we converted to FiberClear last summer. I took a picture but it kept coming out blurry.... I downloaded the owners manual from the internet and it shows a drain plug at the bottom but I can't seem to find it :?

I posted part of my story in another thread but I am confused about getting rid of my algae and adding CYA. I went to the pool store yesterday and got these readings from testing: FC: 0 pH: 8+ TA: 60 Ca Hardness: 240 CYA: 0 The filter was backwashed a bunch of times but has not been recharged...

I have another question....my filter appears to not have a drain plug! I looked all around the bottom of it because we couldn't find it last summer so I felt around and nope nothing there. Last time I took my grids out the filter housing was still almost half full so we tried to stick a hose...

Awesome! My plan is to do about the same thing, we figured out that using bleach will cost us a fraction of what we were paying last summer using pool store chemicals. I was shocking the pool with Power Plus weekly and those little bags are almost $5 a pop! Today is more leaf scooping, there...

We are in North Texas (DFW) so we get a couple freezes and some snow fall but the ground never goes into permafrost so there is usually no worries about the underground pipes. I was a little concerned about the PVC piping around the pump and filter but they seem to be all okay. So I went to the...

I wish I had seen that circulation option during the winter! Good news is we have no busted pipes from the freezes, and the pump started like a champ after i cleaned out all of the skimmer baskets (ewww) and the pump basket. I'll let it run for about an hour then update with the sample...

After a wonderful summer with my clear sparkling pool, fall came. We couldn't keep up with the leaves and eventually our pool became overrun. Throughout winter it became a swamp and now I have to chore of claiming it back. During the winter we had a couple of freezes and at the beginning we...

I did a set of tests this morning after work. The pump has been on all night and the pressure has gone up but the pool is clear. There is some leaves in the deep end and it needs to be sweeped. FC 3 pH 8.2 TA 100 I think the chlorine is okay and I plan on adding Dry Acid today to drop the...

Wow it's starting to look great!! I love looking at these pictures it gives me hope...lol My pool isn't as bad but as a new pool owner it gets overwhelming!

The trial and tribulations of pool ownership...lol So my husband refused to take the water to be tested because he didn't want them to try to sell him a bunch of stuff he didn't need. He went and bought soda ash and a bucket of tablets (not going in yet). I added about 4 pounds of soda ash to...

As it was raining we could see the water going from blue to a algae green like color. The shallow end was still clear and blue. Of course now it's not because I brushed the whole thing but the shallow end is still clearer then the deep end. The test kit the previous owners left only tests the...

We just bought a house that came with an in ground pool. The only experience I have with pools is testing the water. When we moved in the pool was crystal clear, then we had a windy day and a day of rain and the water has slowly turned green. This morning I noticed the pressure in the filter...

Hi all! I'm a new pool owner! We recently bought house that came with a lovely in ground pool with spa. I have become obsessed with making it a sparkling oasis. While looking through a shed on the property I came across an old Polaris, it was missing it's tail and bag so I took it down to...