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Also, why does the water need to reach 60 degrees? It's at 72 now, may come up a little with some warm temps over the next few days, but not enough to comfortably swim. Just wondering why I need to wait for the water temp to drop.

I will this afternoon......so do they make main drain covers for winterization?

Thanks, the problem I'm having is contradicting advice. The cover I am thinking of getting (Arctic Blue Eliminator) recommends using its skimmer dam vs draining below the skimmer. Also, on your point of disconnecting the filter pump......it is all plumbed with pvc, so there is no...

Yes we do reach below freezing, although not for an extended period of time. Some winters are colder than others, but typically our freezing temps are relugated to nights and no more than 2-3 consecutive "daytime" freezing temps. And Ramer is 90 miles due east of memphis, less than 10 miles...

First time closing my pool, so pretty much looking for step by step. I'm going to slam it again because I was on a wildfire for 2 weeks and it got neglected.......still crystal clear though. I assume that I need to drain the pool below the skimmer, and drain the filter pump and plumbing. Not...

None that I have seen. The 10% walmart chlorine is the best option for me.

Bestjoeyever..........there's not really a concern over the loss, it just seems like it should differ from the hot, high use days last month to the cooler, low use days recently. Not to mention I brought the cya up from 40 to 50 with no change. The only foreseeable concern I have is the...

So my FC loss has stayed consistent at 3-3.5 ppm daily no matter the conditions......hot or cool days, heavy or light use, cya of 40 or 50, it doesn't matter. Either way it seems a little on the high side for FC loss. I add liquid chlorine to the skimmer rather than directly to the pool...

What is the biggest difference between the $300+ robotic vacuums and the sub $100 automatic vacuums? I am only wanting to clean the bottom of my 30' above ground pool for dirt, sand, and occasional yet minimal leaves. When I search for automatic pool vacuums, I get a large array of results and...

Just one isolated spot, 2 sections wide?

We have had our pool installed for about 4 weeks now, professionally by the company we purchased the pool from. After some splash out and evap, I've noticed 2 sections that are 1/2"-1" lower than the rest, judging by the water line against the liner. The guys building my deck said that it is...

Yes it was initially filled with the city water and looked like a stock pond in the middle of a cow pasture.

Due to evap and splash out, my water level is down an inch or so below where the pool installers told me to keep it, and it got me to thinking about adding water. When should you normally replace the loss? My water source (city water) tends to be brown at times, so is there a way to fill...

Yes I know the range is 3-7 and that is what I'm saying. I am having to overshoot the max and add a quart midday in order to keep it from dipping down below the minimum. If I bring it to 9 ppm FC at night, add 6 ppm per day to maintain that level, then just stopping at the target of 5-7 would...

Adding 6 ppm, and I just successfully completed my second OCLT just 3 days ago so I'm certain that algae isn't my problem. The SLAM I completed was merely a week before that, so I'm not gonna do a SLAM on a weekly basis, that's not feasible or even sensible. Is 4-6 ppm accurate for a cya of...

I've successfully completed 2 SLAMs, brought my CYA to what I feel confident is 40, but I'm still losing FC at what I would consider a fairly rapid rate. My pool only gets full sun about 6-8 hrs a day (mid morning through 3 pm) so it is shaded in the heat of the day and we aren't even close to...

I wish, still waiting on the deck to be able to get out of the pool.

I maintained my FC through the night finally and only went from 16.5-9 all day in the heat. Here's my numbers as of 2100 tonight: FC-9 pH-7.5 TA-100 CH-100 CYA-30? I thought it was 40 before the SLAM, but between the subjectivity and some rain I'll settle with 30. At 40 cya the dot is...

Richard, at this point the only break in the liner is the 2 jets and 2 main drain inlets. We don't even have a ladder yet (waiting on deck to be built), so hiding places are very limited. I do, however, get some leaves trapped on the main drain inlets that I vacuum out about once every other...

I just brought back up to slam levels and will maintain through the day and do 1 more OCLT, but if it fails, there is something else going on besides algae in my opinion. I just brushed it too, and there was absolutely no visible cloudiness stirred up to make me believe there is any algae, dead...

I'm in the middle of the second slam and it's not going as well as the first. I'm continually losing 2-3 ppm overnight. That is the only SLAM parameter I'm missing. The water is crystal clear and no CC to speak of. I know high humidity contributes to daytime loss along with sunlight, but...

Yes as accurate as I can tell, it is pretty subjective though. If not dead on 40 it is within 5 on the 30 side which would call for even less FC.

So, will you lose more FC during the day when you have a high FC (16 ppm) during a SLAM? Will i experience less FC loss once i let my levels drop to the recommended range? I didn't have this much trouble the first go round, I promise. But now I'm trying to maintain a 16 ppm FC, but I've...

I think I'll test it again, maybe I did something wrong, but we shall see.

Well its a 30 ft round pool, 48 inches deep (6" below the 54" walls)......that gives me 21200 that I've been rounding down to 21k. Even if I was 1k gallons off, that would have only been a 4 oz difference in chlorine added. That did cross my mind, but it wouldn't explain why the last round was...

So another question, is the pool math calculator always right? Just after dark I tested FC at 13.5 so I added what the pool calculator called for, tested again about 2 hrs later at 19ppm. The first SLAM I performed, the calculator was pretty spot on, but that seems like it's off pretty bad.

I copy thanks, and just to be sure with a cya of 40, the FC level is 16 correct?

I am in the middle of a second SLAM due to letting my FC get below the recommended levels leading to a failed OCLT. My CYA is at 40 so I really had to up my FC levels. With that said, my question lies with the CC level. I am going to do an OCLT tonight, and I just tested my CC and it came...

2 nights ago I had 0 loss overnight, last night lost 2 ppm. I guess I'll slam it again this evening and go from there.

I have been in it one time to clean the drains of leaves after a big wind came through. It gets full sun 6-8 hrs a day. No tree stuff other than the random east wind storm a few days ago. I did perform an OCLT and had 0 FC loss overnight, which was less than a week ago. I'll perform another...