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    New numbers, might need some direction

    Hey all! I've been using all manner of heck out of my TF100XL kit. We're on the tail end of shocking after the algae mounted its last challenge. Here are my numbers: FC 8.5 CC 1.5 TC 10 (well, duh, yeah...) Ph 7.7 CYA 25 TA 200 (yes, two hundred) CH 240 Chlorine is high since we're...
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    Do I need to acid wash? Edit: Now clean, with pics!

    Quick description of my situation: We bought the house in 2008 and were told it had a two-year-old plaster refinish on its surface. We didn't plan to use the pool for at least a year (repo house = tons of work with little free time) so we simply added trichlor when the water went cloudy. When...
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    New bilge, I mean pool, owner (KenV)

    Greetings all. We picked up our first house in late 2008, and they had emptied/cleaned/refilled the pool. While we worked on other projects (old house) we had no time to swim and kept the sucker chlorinated and killed off the occasional greening until I fell ill in mid-2009. During those...