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I ran out of R-0004 and I asked the guy at the pool place for the replacement and I didn't think to look till I got home and saw that it was R-0014. I tried using it but the color was all wrong. It was a pale pink. I added Acid Demand and it turned pale yellow. Is there a color scale to...

Pool school used to have a wonderful pool math on the website that would calculate how much water to take out to lower CYA. Now, I use the app. It is nice but it just advises to let a little water out. Can you tell me how to calculate how much water to take out?

I think it is dying. We turned it on this morning and it sounds awful. Is there anything I can check? I've gone to Pentair website for a trouble shooter and they aren't much help.

FC 5 pH 7.6 TA 110 CH 80 CYA 30 Still cloudy. If I wait a few days, I can see a bit of difference. We add about a cup of DE to the sand filter and then flush a few hours later to try to help it along. Is there anything else that I can do? If I get IN the pool I can see my foot on the bottom of...

We put a cover over our pool with a couple of pillows thinking we could keep the debris out. We were only supposed to get at most 20 inches. We got that last night. Our total is right at 50inches since Friday. Our cover is a woven looking one so we thought it would just get the water and not the...

FC 6 PH 7.6 CYA 35-40 TA 50 CH 60 We have had kids swimming as well as a few storms. I haven't had to add chlorine in a while. It has a very slight green cast to it. Like it has turned from turquoise to a very pale teal or aqua. Have y'all had this? Oh the DPD is 0

Our pool was a little cloudy, we didn't think much of it.(after you resurrected it from the dead aka swamp or algae) it is no big thing. We were picking up some more bleach when a guy was mentioning how much he loved his DE filter and how well it worked. Our sand filter is a year old, we can't...

I've noticed they have 'food grade' in garden centers would that be acceptable to add to a sand filter? I was planning on using the tutorial in TFP when I get my hands on some.

I put roughly a half gallon in a day. It is not in use, is that normal? FC 3 CC 0 CYA 30 TA 120 PH between 7.8 and 8 Seeing grey dusty looking sediment on the bottom. We have been running the vacuum, almost every day, rained 2 inches yesterday. No swimmers yet pool is up to 75 degrees. Still...

I saw someone say that they swim in 70 degree water temp. I gotta say, no way Jose! I can barely stand it at 83 degrees. My best temp is high 80s to 90s. How about you?

I have an above ground pool that was so swampy, there was a dead squirrel in it and we didn't notice it. I will say,, you can memorize the youtube of the SLAM process and it still won't prepare you. You will come here asking advice, thankfully the smarties don't get tired of the same questions...

We have finally finished the SLAMing and now I am trying to get all the numbers right. Right now FC 6.5 CC 0 CYA 55 TA is 130 PH is 7.7 I thought I would tackle the CYA problem first and try to lower it the recommended amount. I would love not to have drain it again, is there a way to lower it...

Which is better? I am so tired of scrubbing my pool daily that I am thinking about just maintaining it.

I was looking for R-0871 and a pool store told me that I didn't need it. Just use purified water to get a FC reading above 10 with the R-0001 and 0003. Huh? I'll do the TNT version TYVM.

I have been SLAMing a while now. We have a crazy thunderstorm today. I ran out and checked the FC and CC and the filter is still running but I can't clean it.(Well I could but holding a metal pole in a thunderstorm reaalllllly doesn't seem like a bright idea LOL) So what do I do now? I am...

I have been so worried about getting the swamp monster out of the pool, I obsessed over the video and tutorial about SLAMing the pool. I am almost to the point of just getting to the maintaining part that I've forgotten what all the normal numbers should be. (To be honest, I took over the pool...

Hello, I am from SE Texas, I am a caregiver to my mother with Alzheimers, I have 3 kids, 2 in their mid 20s and married with one still in high school. We got the pool to teach our grandkids to swim and to help with my depression. My 1.5yr old at the time, couldn't swim but we got her to flip...