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If the tennis ball manufacturers catch onto this, they're going to start adding CYA and copper to the balls...

Thanks for the advice. My test results indicate I should probably shock (even though the water looks, smells and feels fine), and my calcium hardness is well within the normal range, so I think this time I'm gonna use the Wal-Mart stuff.

While I've gotten pretty good at normal BBB maintenance, this past week was a first--I went away for a week with no one attending to my pool. I put a ton of bleach in it (over shock value) before leaving, in hopes that it would last the week, but no such luck. I currently must have a chlorine...

Re: Why are my test results so different than the pool store How do pool stores do their testing?

Well yes :) but the fact remains I put muriatic acid in my pool more frequently than either baking soda or Borax.

I put some Borax in my pool this week, and realized that I hardly, hardly ever put Borax in my pool. I put muriatic acid in far more frequently than I do Borax. Has this been your experience? If so, I think the method needs a new abbreviation. Something like "BM method".

If you don't want to drain and refill, you might be okay with 95 CYA if you use bleach (nothing with more stablizer!) and keep it at the recommended level for that high CYA. And you could drain/refill a bit on your own, here and there, to take the CYA level down over time. However, the...

Great, I'll try that out. I love Aldi, so I'll grab some bleach next time I'm there.

Is that "TUNDRA"? Does it work as well as Clorox? I love Aldi's and I'm all about saving money, but I've always used Clorox because it seems like it's what people here recommend.

I just don't appreciate being lied to! I'm just theatening them because I don't want them dumping more stabilizer into my pool!

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Sounds good to me :) Thanks!

I didn't know exactly which forum to post this in...apologies if it's the wrong one. By no means am I an expert, but I'm experienced with the BBB method (and with pool chemistry in general). A wind storm over the winter messed up my cover something fierce, so I wound up with a ton of leaves in...

OK, now I'm REALLY confused. A couple hours later, I just tested two different samples and got ~50 each time. I have the Leslie's K-2006 with all the Taylor chemicals. Fill the little bottle with 7ml of pool water, 7ml of the solution, shake for 30 seconds and pour until the black dot goes away.

I have one of the good test kits, and strips also, although both were purchased about a year ago. My CYA consistently tested high last year (80-100), but I made do, and every day I swam I tried to dump out at least a hundred buckets of water. I had to refill for a while upon opening. My first...

Hi all, A few weeks ago, I ran over the power cord to my Aquabot Turbo T power supply. My Aquabot, which I purchased this year and never had any prior problems with, sat for a couple of weeks while I took care of getting the power cord replaced. Now I put the thing back in the water and...it...

Thanks for the replies, everyone! I may very well close it myself in the future, but for the first time I'd rather watch a company do it, like I did when they opened it this spring.

This is my first year of pool ownership, and I'm going to have it closed by a company soon. I assume they're going to just turn everything off and cover it up. What's going to happen in the water over the winter? Is it still susceptible to algae blooms and whatnot? How is the water likely to...

I think you were exactly right, although it took having the pump repaired in order to FIND the leak. Thanks!

I didn't have time to test in the morning, but test results tonight: TC 17 (MUCH lower than I expected...I used four big jugs and 11 little jugs of bleach to try and take it to 40 last night, given my high CYA) pH 8.0 (wow, like I said it's usually low, anyone know why it'd rise after a week...

I just went ahead and shocked it. Wow, that was a lot of bleach to purchase and put in :) I put in a bit extra, in case my CYA and/or pool volume is a bit more than I figure. Tomorrow I'll tackle the pH...it's ALWAYS low...I can only imagine what it will be after not taking care of the pool...

The expense and inconvenience of getting all of the bleach, of course. (at high CYA it will take a lot) I am not saying I shouldn't or won't do it, but that's why I would want to avoid doing so if possible.

My pump died, and after several attempts at making it work, I gave up and had a new one ordered and installed. Now my pool is being filtered again after about ten days without. The water is crystal clear, other than stuff floating around in it. No signs of algae or anything like that. I did...

Uggghh...when the impeller's running I can't prime it...when I manage to prime it, the impeller struggles and the circuit quickly flips.

I found this article: http://swimming.about.com/od/poolandspa ... olpump.htm but it recommends that the filter air relief valve should be opened before the pump is turned off? I thought that was a no no? And what if I don't have these other valves he's talking about??

Re: Filter/pump died? OK, I spun the impeller around a little bit, and that part seems to work now. Thanks for the tip! Now the problem is there's not enough water, or too much air, in the system. When I start the filter now, all the water gets sucked out and I just hear grinding. I have...

Re: Filter/pump died? Thanks, I'll try that!

Re: Filter/pump died? It's just a hum. But it sorta tried to work for ten seconds or so one time.

Re: Filter/pump died? Is that something I can fix myself? I am an engineer and don't even know what an impeller is :)