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    Opening a Swamp this year.

    Took the cover off of my pool last Wednesday. Boy what a mess. The water was down to about 1' ~ 1.5' feet in the shallow end, floating off the bottom in a few places, and a nice shade of green. To top it off we have a Hayward filter and the bolt broke on the clamp seal/spring when I was...
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    Deep end cloudy after vacuum

    Here's my backstory. Wednesday afternoon/evening I had the vacuum in the pool (Hayward suction side) for a few hours to clean up some dirt on the bottom. It was dark when I took out the vacuum and turned off the pool for the night. The next morning when I went out the deep end was cloudy...
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    Pool Opened First Test Results

    Opened the pool on Tuesday. Have been running the pumps 24 hours/day since then. I brushed the walled yesterday and made a huge mess, but today the water is clearing up and the bottom needs to be vacuumed still. Tonight I ran my first set of tests. Here are the results. FC - 7.5 CC- 0.5...
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    Winter Pool Damage

    So our snow is starting to melt today, we've had a ton this winter. Apparently at some point in the past few months our pool had some trouble. This morning I was able to finally survey the damage. The loop-loc cover collapsed under the weight of the snow and ice, tearing in several spots and...
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    Filter pressure dropping

    I cleaned my cartridges about a month ago, right after we moved into the house. The pressure once I reinstalled everything was about 17-psi which was higher than I expected it to be after cleaning them. Over the past 4 weeks the pressure on the gauge has been slowly dropping. Last night it...
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    First Test with TF-100

    My TF-100 kit came today and I just finished my first round of testing. I think that I did everything correctly, I even did the FC test twice because I wasn't sure of it the first time around. I also picked up some bleach at Walmart if needed. Here are the results, FC - 9ppm (18 drops to...
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    Another new guy

    Stumbled here following a google search a few days ago, have been reading the site over the weekend. I've read through the pool school once and plan to print it out sometime this week to have in a binder. We bought our house a month ago with a 22,100-gallon unground liner pool. Its my first...
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