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    sediment/pollon in pool, can't get it out!

    About a week and a half ago, I noticed some streaks of this brown dust on the bottom of my pool. I did an attempt to vaccume it but my pump is a pretty sucky 2500g/hr pump and the dirt dispersed into the water before it could get sucked up. 2 days later I go to check up on it and now it pretty...
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    Small pool CYA question

    I have a 1700 gallon pool and don't yet have a cya test for it. I've been swapping every other 2 days between using a small version (These are like half the size of a usual puck) trichlor tablets and plain old bleach. In each case I generaly loose between 1-2ppm a day, I was loosing more earlier...
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    Looking for a filter system for intex

    So I am having problems with vacuming my Intex pool. The one that comes with it is worthless as it is wasteful (everytime you vacume, you pump fresh water in) and it is weak. So knew I needed to fit a real vacuum system into this some how. It took me a few days to get together the parts needed...
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    Recycled water implications

    My new intex pool gets a fair amount of spray from 3 of my sprinkler heads. Is this something I need to worry about? I've been looking at how to adjust them although I don't have the tool to do it yet. Saddly I've done a fair amount of searching and I only find warnings not to full your entire...
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    Pool opening, high chlorine concerns.

    Ok so I just purchased and setup the intex 12x36 metal frame pool several days ago, and I religiously memorized (ok..I copied it to my iphone to always have with me) the temporary/small pool maintenance post from this web board. My dad maintained the easy set we had last year and after a while...