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I have a Laars lite 2 heater. It’s old but works great. This is my third season owning the pool and the second starting it up myself. The manual for my heater says to put about 5 cc of sae 50 non detergent oil in the siphon loop. I can’t seem to find sae 50 non detergent oil. Can anyone point me...

6:30 a.m.: 17.5 ppm fc to 12:30 p.m.: 15 ppm fc Things look to be slowing down. It's still a decent amount of fc drop for a morning with zero use but based on my newfound knowledge from s_vidden above, perhaps that is going to continue to slow down as the fc level drops to within normal range...

Vidden, I was NOT aware that FC loss was not linear. Thanks for that lesson! When I say I was not confident in my CYA test, I meant I was questioning if my reagent was bad. My latest CYA test was this week. I've never liked the test because of the subjectivity but I do always do it in full sun...

Marty, Just to clarify...I have been keeping everyone out of the pool, leaving the cover off, leaving the heater off, leaving the PUMP ON, and even took the ladders out the last couple days to eliminate everything possible from the equation. With that said, is there ANY reason other than CYA...

Marty, would you consider 2-4 ppm per day normal for no use, normal use, or heavy use? Or all of the above?

Last year I stayed right in the 40-50 range. This spring, I was at 0 at opening. I added the necessary (I think I remember around 6-7 lbs) granular stabilizer and have been reading 50 all season since. Stupid me put it in the skimmer rather than using the sock method but it did register...

Passed oclt 17.5 fc 0 cc Exactly the same last night and this morning. Im willing to bet I lose 5+ ppm between now and 12:00 noon. I really think my cya test was off. Ive been getting the same result all season with the same bottle of refill I ordered at beginning of season-that bottle is...

Evening results (4.5 hours since 20 ppm) pool: 13 ppm bucket: 19 ppm :confused:

My thought was by keeping the bucket inside in the dark, it would eliminate loss due to sunlight. I would be able to compare a bucket text to a pool test at the same time. If the pool continues to drop but the bucket maintains fc, wouldn't that be a good check on where the fc is going?

Jus checked levels at 12:50 fc 20 cc 0 the fact it is using fc so much faster during the day leads me to believe cya might actually be the issue. I took a five gallon bucket of water out of the pool and put it inside in the dark. Didn’t change anything else. I’m going to check the bucket and...

Marty, tganks for reassuring me. I had to get chlorine there so I figured I’d get a check on my cya. richards reply above. had me thinking about it. the pool store test had my TA at 0 which frankly scared the heck out of me! And also had me doubting my kit. Ill keep the faith!

Pool store tested my cya at 8!!! That could expand my problem easily. do I trust them? Or my tests with the Taylor kit? im out of cya test reagent at home. Is there another test I can do. Maybe get another pool store opinion?

Water is crystal clear. It looks perfect.

Morning fc 29 cc 0.5 cc was very light pink before adding the single drop to make it clear so I’m thinking less than 0.5. Keep slamming, I guess?

Fc 32 cc 0.5 (very light pink with cc reagent added after fc test - clear with one drop - 10 ml test sample) after sundown tonight. Fingers crossed for morning

Not sure I follow. I didn’t backwash much water. It probably takes me less that 25 gallons of water to change my media. I have lost water to evaporation/lack of rain and had to add it a couple times via my city water but I’ve probably exchanged a total of under 1,000 gallons all year. Rain...

A few weeks ago, I had what I assume was an algae bloom. Water temperature was in the mid 80s from the previous weekend. It was a chilly week and nobody was using the pool. I was working long hours and didn’t check chemicals from Sunday to Thursday. When I removed the cover Thursday evening for...

Catanzaro, I do not have a main drain. I was going to use a heavy duty shop vac or air compressor to blow the lines out (leaning towards the shop vac). I have fernco connections where the lines come out of the ground at the equipment pad. I was going to remove the ferncos and hook up there. I...

I'm a first year pool owner and starting to think about closing up for the season. We are having a very early fall in upstate NY this year. I've read the closing article in pool school and done some other research and feel very comfortable with almost everything. Im stuck on the blowing out of...

I'm a new pool owner and, to date, I have had the heater bypassed because it needed a new manifold installed which the previous owner had and never installed. He was nice enough to install the part for me and I have now plumbed the heater back up. No leaks after turning the pump back on. The...

Drum roll....... Just need to plumb in the heater, restore the lawn, and caulk the concrete joints. Also waiting for summer to arrive in upstate ny. https://www.facebook.com/domenic.emilio/posts/10209148469284789

Cincy, Hang in there. My story is similar to yours. New house last fall, first opening for me this year. Listen to Texas. He helped me out and I was frustrated and skeptical as you. The methods here do work. Keep reading pool school. Once I got to the bottom of all my problems (my last hang up...

The above ground stairs all seem to be made for deeper depths than my shallow end.

I am having a very difficult time finding a drop in style set of steps for an inground pool. There are only s few options that I can find and none of them appear to be made to work with the significant curved transition between my walls and floor. It's probably an 18" - 24" transition! At least...

I just got rid of s bunch of de due to a bad gasket. I had to let it settle and vacuum it up. Takes overnight to settle out. My understanding is it's harmless to swim with. If it's mixed up for your party and you won't even know it's in there...unless there's a ton of it. if it already settled...

Concrete te deck is done. Really starting to come together. Vinyl fence is next. I passed the oclt with 0 FC loss last night. Also 0 CC. Now letting chlorine come down to normal so I can check ph and get that right, if it isn't. Anything im missing?