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Does anybody run a solar heater and not a blanket. My solar blanket is a pain to get on and off (above ground pool and I have to lift off reel), and I don't really have a place to put it. We actually only use it for about a month, and the rest of the summer we have more issue cooling the pool...

My CYA was 0 when I tested a few days ago. Added about 2lbs of CYA yesterday, haven't retested since then. Found my old water testing kit for ammonia and it is looking like around .8ppm, although it is a very old kit and that is the highest it goes. So yeah, pretty sure that is the problem...

So I just figured out I probably have ammonia. I have now added 5 pounds of cal hypo and 3 gallons of 6% bleach and still no fc in a 11,500 gallon pool. UGH! My kids thought it would be fun to throw a few hundred rocks in my pool and I read somewhere that soil bacteria is what usually does...

I have been taking care of an above ground pool for seven years and in all that time I have almost always run my pump 24/7. If I turned the pump off i tended to forget to turn it back on. I have always feared putting in a timer for fear that something would go wrong in startup and burn my pump...

Plumbed a vacuum port today and it doesn't seem to be working. This is a 15x30 above ground pool with what I was thinking was an oversized pump (1.5 HP). I was having problems with possibly too much suction, and too high power a return because of that. This was causing all kinds of havoc with...