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Hi all, I haven't been here in awhile. It's good to see the site is still going strong! I tried the google, with no luck, so I came to the experts for this problem. I hope you can help. :) I have a small patio fountain with a stained glass inlay bottom. It has sprung some leaks under the...

Have a Red Oak over my pool and everyday for the past 2 weeks or so, I'm finding cut green leaves in the pool skimmer and a few yellow/green/white stripped worms with a purple-ish looking top stripe, skimmed from the bottom. There are large piles of blackish looking stuff around the sides of...

I have been shocking for about a month, I won't give all the tests but I had been losing 3 to 5.5 ppm on the OCLT. The water has cleared for a couple of weeks now and looks very good. On 8/16 @ 11:15 AM I added 2 cups bleach, then tested at 3 pm FC=25.5 CC=1 TC=26.5 Topped off with about an inch...

A few weeks ago my system was beeping low salt. PC recomended to add 6lb of salt. I only added 1/2 of that. My salt level the last time I "wrote" it down was 3100 on 6/26/11. Just checked it today and it's reading 3960! I have been shocking with bleach trying to stay @18 FC and only running...

Just wondering how people get their water sample in the early am. How do you keep it for tests from the pool stores? Do you keep it in the fridge or just leave it in the house or car till you can get it tested? Reason I ask is because, I've been shocking for algea since July 11th and trying to...

Will Epsom Salt harm the pool or the SWG? My low salt alarm is going off and I have a LB of it hanging around, can't get any pool salt till later today. Can I disolve that and pour it in the pool?

FC=4.5 CC=1 TC=5.5 PH=8.2 TA=180 CH=360 CYA=70 (was 90 before vac to waste. Why the drop? Haven't added water back yet.) Salt not tested was at about 3400 last time and alarm keeps going off. Water is cloudy. Had alot of dirt on bottom of pool, vacuum would pick it up, then let it back thru...

Hi everyone. Just filled my AGP and installed a new Intex SWG yesterday with the help of a friend. We turned on the SWG , set it for 5 hours timer and of course the low salt came on, then I realized we weren't supposed to have the salt generator running yet, so turned it off for 24 hrs. Added...

I did some advice please. I was really hoping this little pump would last the season, before buying a new one. The breaker is tripping after maybe 5 minutes of being on. I have the cheapy one that came with the Summer Escapes popup pool. It is called an F700C and the filter system says it's...

Last evening I was adding water due to evaporation and was trying to rig up a vac plate from a ziploc bowl. (That idea didn't workout as planned.) Well, when I left the pool, I turned the water off, my hose has lever on the end. I did not shut it off at the faucet/spiggit. This morning my...

I bought this today. It doesn't have any active ingredient %. Nor any good instructions other than to add 1 pint per a 10,000 gallon pool. How do I use the Pool Calculator with this product? It is made by Sunny Side Corp. and the web site is the same with a dot com. I went to that site and...

I use the Pool Calculator and am getting these recomendations: TH 200= nothing FC 0 = add 1 qt, 1 cup and 6 ozs 6% bleach PH 8.4 = add 15 oz of 34.8% braume TA 250 = nothing CYA < 30/50 = add 10oz by volume stabilizer (Note: yesterday it said to add 2.6 oz of stabilizer, which I did about 10...

Hello everyone, I tried to post this but guess it didn't take. I am new to posting and to pools. This site is pretty neat and sure glad I found it. I am wanting to know if I have this popup pool filtering wrong. Is the water that comes back in to the pool supposed to be closer to the surface...