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Hi all, I have what appears to be an algae problem in my SWG pool with a high FC. Each week when I brush the pool I have a little greenish tinge on the walls and when I brush tiers and the bottom I can clearly see a cloud following the brush. The problem is that I keep my FC values high enough...

Hi all, I'm not sure if there's other folks that have this problem, but I really have a hard time telling the difference between the pH 7.8 and pH 8.0 colors on my test kit and my pool loves to run up in this range. Current numbers are: FC 5.0, pH 7.8 or 8.0, TA 70, CH 380, CYA 40, NaCl 3400. I...

Hi all, I've always felt that my pH wanted to rise too quickly but I never asked about it. I've been using the bleach/HCl method for a few years and recently switched to SWG. Since the SWG might have a tighter tolerance for pH I thought I would seek guidance. I lowered my pH with acid just...

Hi all, I'm converting my pool over to SWG this Friday after having enough of dealing with bleach additions every day. I'm wondering why the recommendation is to keep the CYA so high? Increasing CYA is a diminishing return kind of thing after a certain amount in terms of chlorine loss from what...

Hi all, I just had my plaster redone with a nice Wet Edge polished material and I want to be very careful with it. It's been started up for a few months and was handled by the installer so that's fine, but it has me wondering about the best way to add acid to the pool. Here's the particulars...

Hi all, I have a little pool app on my phone that I also use in addition to PoolMath called Pool Pal. It spits out LSI numbers in addition to CSI numbers and I have a real hard time keeping my pool in the non-scale regime for LSI. Here are my numbers: Temp: 84 FC: 2.8 CC: 0 pH: 7.6-7.8 TA: 80...

hi all, I could have sworn I've seen this before but I cannot find it now, so I'm sorry if this is a redundant post. I bought a house with a pool last Fall in Austin, TX and I'm in the process of straightening things out. The booster pump was burned out and the Polaris 280 was in terrible...