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Hmm - the thought of swimming with a million bull frogs is not overly appealing, but then i have the joy this spring of fishing them out the pool! Neighbours count in one night was over 20!

Yep up in sunny Ottawa enjoying the scorching heat being pushed up by the hurricane! Thanks for all the comments, just had nice 7.30am swim to start the day off :)

found the kit in stock in Quebec canada for $175 CAD

Yep for sure, i will be arranging for Jeff to get me one and ship on up to me. Jeff shame you are not going to macna this weekend!

Ok so the results First place was not overly helpful although they have the best test facility, they would only test the FC and CYA, according to the spotty teenager FC and CC are the same!! In other words she did not bother to test for it becuase it had been less than 24 hours since being...

Hey ;) So its your fault I now live on another forum too ;) I will get a snap shot of how things are doing later, as the water is barely 72 hours old I am sure my organics will be low (I hope) The only thing I was planning on shocking before I got this pool was by wearing speedos in front of...

Ha - now thats a perfect explanation, now everything makes sense. I am so sorry for bothering you all so much with this, but clearly there is more to this than irritates the eye ;)

Thanks I will post chlorine results and CYA results later today. I assume if FC is at correct levels or even higher and CC is below .05 things should be ok for now. What i cant get my head around is what is CC? Other than the stuff that smells and burns your eyes. if I add shock the pool...

edit - answered question myself!

I have the SWCG set at 60% on the pro logic P4 controller. The installers said run it at 50%, but I am not sure of their knwledge in this field

My CC is at 0.00 right now. well was yesterday before adding the chlorine. This is my biggest headache, to find out if I have added enough chlorine to get back up to shock level i have to do a 10 mile round trip :( First I have to find out what my CYA is, I guess i am looking for a figure...

OK read it again, now sort of got a grip of this. Trouble is going away is going to make it hard to follow this properly. I have added the amount of chlorine as stated before and will get the levels tested again this afternoon. My last test results showed combined chlorine at 0ppm but then i...

Hi No worries, yes being in canada we are stuck with store testing stations. I have read the article a few times but have to say i am a bit lost. My understanding was that shocking a pool was adding neat chlorine I was not aware you have to do this hourly? I would much appreciate a dummies...

Hi I am following the guidence here, the only thing I am using the store is for testing as at this moment in time I do not have the recommended test kit, being in canada also makes it hard to locate this kit due to import restrictions. So for now i am at the mercy of the local store for testing...

Thanks :) Ok I am now concerned I added too much chlorine the pool is quite high in smell. I was told not to test again for 4 days to let things settle. I know you will say you need to see the levels ;) which today i will go get tested, but I am just curious that when you shock the pool if it...

thanks :)

My mistake! No I have not added enough CYA yet, i just worked out how much I have added and how much I should have. I have added 3.75LB of CYA where I should have added 6LB Will add some more first thing tomorrow.

Hi The pH was up at 8.0 as the water was tested by myself this evening when pH falls anyway (my business is marine fish tanks so have some quite tasty pH testers to hand ;) ) so I am sure the pH will be in tolerance by tomorrow morning. As I am just about to go away, I am kinda reliant on the...

well best said in photos really, this was built by Pool builders (real name) of ottawa Ontario Canada. It took them two weeks to build! its 34 x16 with 8.5' deep end and about 18,000gal.

Thanks Jan ;) So today i filled my boots with chemicals and set about balancing the water. First stop was my local testing station, the readings were as expected 0 chlorine 0 CYA low alk low calc, high pH :oops: So not to rush things the first was to find out my exact gallons which is 17238...

Hi Got it all worked out in the end, I have learnt so much from this forum in 24 hours and also learnt my pool installation company needs to be a bit more forthcoming with info for a newbie :( I have a thread open here viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26588&p=219613&e=219613 so will continue on there with...

great thanks guys, your help has been awesome :) Off tomorrow to get more salt - stabilizer and pool chlorine.

thanks for the help, i am reading everything right now, I will follow your directions and let you know how it goes ;)

Absolutely nothing has been added to the pool other than myself and water :) its new install and filled on Friday evening, the chlorinator was turned on about 8.30am on saturday. The water is crystal clear.

Thanks, just read the pool school it was very helpful. I will go get some pool shock and stabilzer tomorrow. The reason I did not today was becuase the store said if I manually add chlorine how would I know the cell was working? As a newbie this made kinda sense at the time.

Here is my pool

I was told to run it at 50% by the installers, I now have it on 24 hour super chlorinate mode. its a T-15 cell The instant salt reading at present is 2900 I added more salt about an hour ago.

it reads between the second colour (still low) and the green ok, so between off yellow and mid green, the test strip goes light green.

Hi Hope you can help. Just got my 18,000 gal in ground pool up and running, filled on Friday, the SWG has been running since Saturday morning. On testing this morning the test strip showed low for Chlorine, so I took it to a local store to have it more accurately tested and the results were...

wahey you have answered my question, i.e what the heck is instant salt reading and why when i press save does my system ask for more salt. From reading your posts the answer to my issue is that the average value is one over 24 hours so by saving thing instant valu i am resetting the average...