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Last year the pressure stayed between 16-20 psi. Backwashed at 19-20 and it went back to 16-17 psi. When we opened the pool this year, the gauge was broken. After a new gauge was installed, the pressure is staying around 10 psi. Everything acts normal, good pressure out of the return jets...

How much water does it take to keep the vinyl liner down, what is the minimum safe amount of water? 6"? If I do a 50% refill twice, I'll get 75% of it replaced (diminishing returns)... I need to replace 85% according to the pool calculator. So if I replace 60% twice then I'll get 84%...

Thanks for all the input, I'll work on bringing it down. Looks like I'll be doing a couple of refills... :(

Thanks! So it's more of an issue for the pool surface than the equipment, I see. I was a little concerned about the pump/heater. I appreciate the help!

I've only had the kit for a week or two and I feel pretty comfortable with all the tests except the calcium test. When I add drops (attempting to make solution turn blue) I notice the liquid part turns blue, but I have pink flakes. Do I continue adding drops until everything is undoubtedly...

I've had a pool for about a month, this site has made maintaining it extremely easy so far, Thanks!! I appear to have fiberglass steps going down into my vinyl pool. The caulking between the two seems to be wearing off and I see what appears to be green moss and some black stuff. My CC is .5...

It was backwashed right before I started shocking. I'll go get the Wal-mart drops, thanks for all the help!

Ok, thank you for the advice, I'll go get some stabilizer. I will purchase some Bleach also. I have a big bucket of tablets, so I'll be using those until they are gone I think. You know, the pool guy said we may need our filter cleaned, could there be enough bugs, etc in there that it may...

The water looks clear, had a few leaves in it...overall, looks fine.

FC was 0 pH was 7.2 TA was 87 CA was 0 Hardness was 313

I took the water in to get tested at the pool store and was told to add 2 lbs of shock. (53% cal-hypo), this is first opening post winter. All other readings were considered normal (except Cyanuric Acid and I was told it would start showing up after a week. Stablizer is in tablets (we put a...