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Hi all! Hope your season is going great so far. I, once again, am seeking advice from the best pool forum on the internets ;). This time around I'm wondering if any of you have experience in regard to water loss from evaporation through use of a fountain/sprayer. I'm in central Georgia and my...

Hi everyone, sorry to resurrect an old thread (but it's so filled with good info there is no reason not to!) but I have a question for you hard plumbing fountain building intex hackers. What is your opinion on keeping the original siphon port vs having two returns (one for a fountain of course...

I sent the pool calculator guys an email and told em to quick making things for silly iPhones before they did one for Android. hehehe.

Finally got into the pool for the first time tonight. Excellent. Still got some iron in it as it was starting to yellow up again after dosing with a bit of bleach & after a couple hours of the SWG being on but I think we will get that cleared up again pretty quickly. Now just to spend some days...

well I feel stupid. I just went to dose with cya again. I re-read the bottle again to be sure I didn't miss anything. THIS time I catch the "shake very well" part. This time the CYA looks like milk instead of egg white. For some reason I think it will work this go round. I'll check it again in...

Jason, Wahoo! Looks like I'm getting there. Wifey took a small sample of water in & had it checked and I believe it registered .25 for iron. Unfortunately they sold her MetalFree... She came home gave it the recommended dose. Nothing after an hour. Dosed again. Nothing. Dosed again. Nothing...

Ahhh. That might be the issue with the color then. I'll have to take a dose of water to the store & have them test that for me. I've never had my water checked for minerals. It's well water so that is entirely possible. Hopefully likely! Still no clue on the CYA though. I'll give it a bit more...

The only thing I can think of that might contribute, if it's not something I did with the chems, is that we put a tarp over the pool (we are still waiting on the proper cover to come in the mail...) last night. No chems were in the pool but maybe the tarp left something from sitting on top of...

Turned yellow within a couple of hours of adding all the chemicals. Am I right in thinking the liquid CYA should have immediately registered? No waiting serious wait time with the liquid correct? Think I should go ahead & add more & see what comes of it?

ok, a little follow up & another request for advice. We got everything set up & the pool itself looks great. The 1000g/h Intex pump works fine & the SWCG seems like it's going to be no trouble at all (though it's not turned on yet - still waiting out that first 24 hours for the salt to...

Thanks for the comments folks. @Jason - I'll go the bleach route on day one to get the FC to the right point out of the gate. I'll decide on the liquid vs solid CYA when I see the price difference. :) @sonflower - I'll take your advice on the testing for salt. But for now I think I'll give the...

I'm setting up an Intex 10'x30" pool & opting to do it with a SWG, I've read all through the pool school info and I think I've got a handle on the way everything works. At least enough of a clue to go ahead and "jump in" so to say (since this is my first pool). If I am reading things right once...

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll keep checking back to see if anyone else wants to chime in. For now I think I may just go the cheap route, go with the all Intex stuff & see how she goes. to answer a couple of questions - The fence issue will be addressed, I just didn't see the need to...

Situation: Absolute first timer that knows nada about pools except what I've read in recent weeks. My son is 2 years old & loves the water. I hate those little dinky kiddie pools that get so nasty so fast & want to put in a simple, easy, small pool with a good filter that will last me for at...

Well what a great spot for my first post on TFP. I've never had a pool but I've got an Intex 10x30 in the box sitting in my garage right now waiting on me to figure out how I want to set it up. I came here looking for advice as I want to do it right the first time and want to avoid all the pool...