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I have been using TFP principals for 3 years on my small above ground SWG pool, and it's a breeze. A friend is fed up with her pool and asked me to help her. I get how to use pool math and how to do the chemicals. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to apply the principals weekly or...

What are the general guidelines for timing/ average temps of setting up my ag salt pool? It is a small 12’ intex octagon. I don’t have a heater (may try to talk hubby into making one, but he’s building a room onto the house right now), but the sun in West Texas gets pretty penetrating pretty...

Thank you to everyone who contributes to this forum. I finally got my pool on track. I had WAY too much CYA, kept getting algae, etc. I ordered a TF 100 kit, SLAMed, measured, adjusted, drained, refilled, acid-aerate, acid/aerate, adjust. I finally got everything adjusted and the pump/SWG set...

Is there a way to modify the drop test in the little blue box for a daily test running a target of 10-12 ppm FC? I've seen some suggestions on other tests of halving the water, etc to manipulate the chemical equation to test at higher levels. I hate to have to use the powder and drops every day...

For the thrifty pool people My HEB has an instant coupon for $1 off Kem Tek 10% liquid chlorine which makes the price $3.98 for a gallon of 10%. It was even cheaper than the Bravo extra strength (8.25%) bleach.

I found that my SWG makes 7g/hour. I just finished a SLAM b/c I didn't have the TF-100 test kit yet and my CYA was well over 100. I changed out about 1/3 of the water as suggested, SLAMed for 2 days and passed an OCLT last night. Here are my numbers today (I'm sure someone else has suggested it...