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I know this is an old thread. I just wanted to thank everyone for their advice. If you don't remember. My water was really hard. It still is. It was over 900 when I started. I haven't done anything to treat that but in just using Liquid chlorine and Myriatic Acid to keep things balanced...

First time the plaster has been 'white' in a year and a half. Yes, I can see the screws in the drain cover and I can read heads or tails on a quarter in the shallow end. I didn't feel like fishing the quarter out of the deep end. Still not warm enough to swim. I am not a photographer. Looks...

Early work tomorrow. I will try to snap a few in the morning and post tomorrow evening.

I only lost 4ppm of FC all day yesterday when I was gone for 12 hours. Tested at about 12:30 last night. Tested again at 7am and lost nadda. Does this mean I am done slamming. Pool is beautiful and clear. I am assuming, since I live in Arizona, I am still going to have to use 2 or 3 gallons a...

I think the timing worked out perfect for me. I am back to a long work day tomorrow from 4pm to midnight. So I will be gone for 11 hours or so. Good news is I haven't even dropped 1ppm of FC in the last 4 hours. Sun is down now. So I get to leave it alone tonight and check it in the morning. I...

I catch on pretty quick. I have been calculating the FC ppm loss per hour. I lose less at night than during the day. I am even fairly up to snuff on how much chlorine I should be putting in without the calculator. The process definitely does not run on an even sliding scale. The differences...

Well, I just ran out on drop 41. Sample is still pink. So it's safe to say that I have lost less than 3ppm over the last 5 hours. Which is awesome. Since I don't know what the actual number is, I guess I will just throw in enough chlorine to raise it up 4ppm and look for somewhere locally to get...

Another question: I still have plenty DPD powder but am running low on R-0871. I will get through this process of slamming but will probably be out by the time I am done. *How much aprox will I need to get through the season (my season starts now and will run 'sometimes' to the end of October...

Still losing about 2ppm per hour during sunlight hours. Lots of sparkling dirt floating around in the pool today. Looks like little sparks in the sunlight. I have never seen that before. Water is a lot cloudier than yesterday but the color gets better and better. I will just keep doing what I am...

I have a question about the FC test. What has been happening is I test it and lets say I get a reading of 16ppm but I want it at 20ppm. I check the pool math and when I walk back to the sample it's pink again. I tried putting a few more drops in it and it took 4 more drops to turn clear. Should...

At 7pm FC already dropped from 22ppm to 16ppm. I went ahead and pushed it back up to 23ppm to give me some room. I just tested now, it's 11:30pm and it is still sitting at 21ppm. So it hasn't lost near as much, of course, the sun is down now. I will test and replenish in the morning. It's doing...

I threw the last jug in and restocked. I am at 22ppm now. Will continue to test every 3 hours and replenish until I go to bed. Will that be sufficient for tonight?

Thanks. It took almost 3 jugs to get it to 17. So I will just throw the last jug in and go restock, now, so I can get to tomorrow. Wow! It's taking more than I thought. This IS gonna work, right?

When I guessed the gallons in the pool is was an awesome guess. I just realized there was a calculator for that, too. According to Pool Math, my pool is roughly 14,800 gallons. Testing - let's see if I got it up high enough this time.

When I got up for good, I took the two remaining cases of chlorine back to Lowes. Then went to the pool store and got several jugs of 12.5%. I had to put down a deposit but the price of the chlorine was essentially the same price as Lowes. A few cents more ut a better bargain due to the higher...

I ended up slamming the pool anyway. I tested about 45 minutes later and I only got a reading of 13ppm. I should have gotten closer to 16 according to the pool math calculator. Regardless, I went to bed for a bit. Just got up for a minute, and feeling a bit anxious, I tested just now and I...

Ok. Here are my new numbers after getting the PH where it needs to be - The pool is blue clear at the moment. I can see to the bottom of the deep end . So I am assuming, the cloudiness from the dose of Cal-hypo that I put in a couple weeks ago has finally filtered. FC - 1.5 CC - .5 barely PH -...

Thanks. I won't be putting any more hard shock or tabs in my pool. I am a little annoyed that the pool stores have been telling me that that's what I need to put in. They could obviously see by testing my samples that my water was very hard and and didn't even mention it to me. "Here, buy 12...

Looks like the PH didn't come down any more over night. It's still roughly 7.8. So I added just under a quart more acid. I am assuming by by the pool math calculator, this should do the trick and I can start adding the chlorine tonight? We'll see how this goes over the next few days.

Put the muriatic acid in this morning. Tested the PH tonight 7.8. Pump is running. Will test everything the morning to determine where I am at picked up 6 gallons of liquid chlorine. The bleach was old, so I passed. Paid $3 a gallon for 10% liquid chlorine. I am going to shop around tomorrow to...

The pool is not green. It's the correct color blue but is a bit cloudy. We had an early heat up and I could see time was of the essence and tossed 5 bags of shock in the pool. Kept it from turning green but now it's cloudy. I have a week or so before temps rise to the high 80's So I want to get...

Hello, Just a quick background because I am kind of embarrassed over the problems I had last Summer maintaining my pool. I am from Hawaii and always had a beach out my backdoor. Moved to Arizona about 12 years ago and after 7 years of no summer relief, I finally got a home with a pool. I knew...