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    Bleached liner

    Hi all, I have only used the TFP method for our pool and it has worked out great. Unfortunately this winter and spring I have made some very bad decisions - and I KNEW BETTER but never the less here's my story - Last fall I bought a new pool cover, once we got it on the pool we realized it was...
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    Water temps for turning on SWG

    What does my water temperature need to be before I turn on my SWG? We opened our pool this week and it is already beautiful and sparkling thanks to BBB. The BIG pool store's pools were green I noticed. heehee
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    Aquatrol and Ca

    Aquatrol was installed today. I haven't turned it on yet because I have to add more salt. The manual says we should have a Ca level of 200-400. Is this critical? The manual has a calculation for the Si which should be between 0.2 and -0.2. Mine is -2.25. if I figured correctly FC 3 pH7.2 TA100...
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    New pool test results

    Here are my numbers. FC 4.5 CC 0 TC 4.5 PH 7.2 TA 80 CH 80 CYA 20 Last night we put 3 lbs cya in, my understanding is it will take a while for the number to rise?? We also put bleach and baking soda. It looks like to me we need more baking soda to raise PH and TA?? Do we worry about CH? Since...
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    Pool full, can't turn on pump til Tues.

    The plumbing was leaking once the pool got full. Watson's is coming Tues to fix. Loyd Luck! Should I test now and add some chlorine even though there is no circulation (ok really my husband is in it circulating the water right now). We have been shoveling dirt for 2 days and there is no way we...
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    AGP installed today!! What is permasalt??

    We had a 27ft 52 d AGP installed today. Total gallons are supposed to be 18600. We are filling now and hopefully will be done by Sun. We have a Hayward cartridge filter with a permasalt system. The permasalt does not seem like what I have read about on this site. The installers did not tell us...