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I lost my winter cover during a bad wind storm and my pool turned into a swamp over winter. Getting close to the end of my SLAM to bring it back (can finally see bottom on day 8 ) and I noticed a ring around the lower part of the wall (above ground vinyl liner). I have been brushing the wall so...

So we had a really bad wind storm. Not going to complain too much since people have trees laying on their house and stuff. My winter cover blew off and ended up in the pool, and with it, some swamp water and 100 lbs of leaves. The water is borderline ice right now (was frozen this morning)...

Getting pretty close to closing up my pool for the winter but within the past few weeks I've noticed something odd and troubling. I think I'm losing water at a more rapid pace than usual. Not sure if it's just me or if it's weather related or what. We haven't really used the pool heavily within...

So today my pump was working fine but I wanted to backed my filter. I turned it off to switch to backwash and then when I turned it back on it would only hum and not do anything. From my searching it seems to likely be the capacitor since I can't turn the shaft manually with my fingers. My...

So, long story short, I had a hole in my pool cover and couldn't properly drain off the leaf decayed swamp water from the top. I ended up dumping all the nasty leaves and green water into my nice clean pool while removing the winter cover. I thought to myself, well shoot... That stinks...

So this is my second year with the pool and have never had any problems with it. Been using TFP method since day 1 and the water has always been crystal clear. The past few weeks have been lots of thunderstorms and rain. This caused me to neglect the pool a bit and not keep the FC high enough...

Poor little guy got sucked right in.... Just kidding. Just a small sample of the pollen that was in my pool this past weekend. Now we're onto all the little buds falling that puked out the pollen in the first place. Fun time of year to try and keep the pool clean! :pth:

So when I went to open my pool, I went downstairs and went to make sure the power was on. I noticed that the little on/off triggers were loose and janky looking. I am thinking that the on/off triggers got loose at some point over the winter and bound up the timer dial, possibly stripping the...

We're in a state of emergency with wind gusts up to 81mph today. Pool cover blew into the pool :( On the bright side... the water is crystal clear, so I guess I did a good job closing it for the first time :p. Too windy still to even attempt to fish it out and put it back on. Tomorrow not...

So of course this kind of stuff always happens when I'm away.... Long story short, my wife spilled some motor oil in the pool. Maybe 1/4 cup or so. Not much. She skimmed most of it off I guess. I am away for work for the week so won't be able to deal with it until I get back. My question is...

Noticed my pump wasn't running when I got home from work. That's odd... timer kicks it on at 2pm. Go downstairs and check the timer. Looks good. GFCI is tripped. Hmm... great, electric issue? Reset it and go back out. Still not running. Reset GFCI again and turn timer to manual on position. Head...

Some of the tests say something along the lines of... "when the water turns to red" you are done, then multiply by X, etc... If the water turns to a light version of the color that they specify, am I done? If I add 1 more drop it turns to a darker version of that. Should I be counting that...

New pool owner here. Just did my first manual vacuuming and I can already see how that will quickly become tedious along with all of the other normal yard work that is needed. I have 24' round AGP with a 6" dish in the middle. Since it's not that big of a pool, I'm wondering if one of the...

My pool was just installed last week and I just got my TF100 test kit this week. I've only added 1 jug of liquid chlorine and 1 lb of stabilizer so far. I think it said a pool my size will need about 3 lbs total to bring the CYA up, so I know I still need to work on that. Just looking for some...

I am watching the installers finish up my pool as I type this. Trying to get everything in order that I need. It's an AGP with a vinyl liner. Sand filter. After reading a bunch of info here, I'm thinking about not using the Aqua Smarte system that they gave me with my pool. It's one of those...

New pool owner here. Don't know fully what I'm getting myself into yet. Pretty much gave up listening to the wife complain about how badly we need a pool and just said screw it... get one. So... here we are. On the bright side, my 3 year old daughter loves to swim and she's very excited. I never...