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Thanks tim5055. As of Tuesday night, I passed the overnight chlorine loss test. The chlorine loss for the full night was 0.5ppm (from 20ppm to 19.5ppm). Since pool water is clear and there is no other sign of algea, I stopped the SLAM process three days ago. I have been monitoring the chlorine...

I have been following the instructions and have been SLAMing the pool for last three days. With my CYA of 50, I am trying to keep my FC at 20. After three days, I increased my FC level back to 20.5 last night. Before sun was up, I woke up and remeasured my FC level and it was 19. I thought that...

Yes, will do that starting from Friday. Thanks for the detailed description.

Thanks again. I will SLAM but most probably I have to wait until Friday so that I can do a better job over the weekend instead of trying to learn and SLAM the pool while at work.

Thanks Mr Bruce and Texas Splash for your input. I added more liquid chlorine this morning and I was wondering what happens if I don't do SLAM and keep my FC levels as suggested. since I have a crystal clear water, will that be a problem in the future. Should I try to do the overnight test...

Hi everyone, I just did my test with my TF100 test kit and here are my results: FC: 2 CC: 0 TA: 130 CYA: 50 PH:7.8 CH: 400 I will add more liquid chlorine to increase my FC level. Other than that I have couple of questions: 1) should I worry about my TA level and should I try to reduce it? 2)...

Thats true actually. I just ordered 1 from Amazon and I will get it by Wednesday...

NEw update: I spent quite a lot of time yesterday to fix pump priming issue as suggested here and also used magic lube for all the o-rings and it was still not working as of last night. This morning I tried again and it worked great for the first time. No air leak and priming is so good. I still...

I have been trying all the suggestions that DeanP66 mentioned above. I checked the o-ring, used pool lube and filled the basket with water and released the air from air valve of the filter, but still no luck. I have a valve between vacuum cleaner and skimmer line that goes into the inlet pipe of...

Thanks for all the input. I added the liquid chlorine and the stabilizer as suggested bu the poolmath calculator. Now it seems I have another problem. Pool pump wont prime anymore ( both at skimmer or at cleaner, wont prime) and there are air bubbles coming out of the return lines. it seems...

Thanks Rob. I live almost 5mins away from Gilbert Rd. and 202. I will definitely go there to check.

Thanks Mr. Bruce. I will check my local Walmart/home Depot store today when I go there to buy liquid bleach. I will go with the solid kind as you suggested..

Thanks Peirek for your input. First I will aim to increase my CYA to 40 with FC of 6. Poolmath calculator tells me to add 70 oz of 10% liquid bleach and 152oz of liquid stabilizer. I also read that liquid bleach will not affect CYA values so those should be independent , correct? One last...

Just updated my signature and posting this to test...

Hi everyone, I just finished filling up my pool after my 2nd (almost complete) drain. Here are my new values: FC : 1 CC : 0 CYA : ~0 (filled the full CYA test tube and still clearly see the black dot) PH : 7.5 TA : 140 CH : 400 According to my 2 weeks of experience and reading pool school...

DeanP66 --> Thanks for the advice. I just did the diluted test and measured CYA to be around 60 so it means that I have my CYA levels around 120. THis confirms that I need to do one more drain. I stopped filling the rest of 5-6 inches of water and shortly starting my 2nd round of draining :(...

OK, the pool is almost refilled but got the bad news. I remeasure the CYA level while the pool is being filled in and the new value I got is around 100. It is definitely reduced compared to original value but still not acceptable. What do you guys recommend? Should i just stop filling in the...

Thanks for the sugggestion. I will definitely consider doing that in the future. - - - Updated - - - Hi Rob, Great to meet people who share my pain :) I drained my pool overnight and already started to fill it up without emptying the full pool. I kept the water level at the top of the...

By the way, any suggestions tips while draining the pool that I need to be aware of or while filling it back up??? After it is all drained, I am planning to brush the walls and start filling it back up.

Finally, I am almost done with the move so I have time to start working on the pool. First thing I bought a submersible pump and started draining the pool adter turning off all the pool equipment. I just started draining 3 hours ago so I think I have 9-10 more hours to go. I will post updates...

Now you scared me even more. Thanks for pointing that out and I will do more thinking/planning before starting the draining. I will also try to get quotes on how much it will cost to have the full water filtered with RO system rather than draining the full pool...

These are all great inputs and thanks for everyone for their replies. By the way, I just used the poolmath calculator and it also suggested replacing 85% of my pool with the numbers that I posted earlier. Anyways, as the next steps, I will measure the dimensions of my pool and get an estimate on...

Thanks for all the inputs, this is very useful and overwhelming at the same time since I just own a pool less than a week and I need to find out how to exchange the water. So here are some of my questions: 1) It seems like I need to exchange water until the CYA is at least no higher than 50. I...

I just did my first full test with TF-100 test kit and here are my full set of numbers: FC --> 50 (it took exactly 100 drops) CC --> none CYA --> much more than 100 (the test tube has highest label as 100 but my value was much more than that) PH --> lower than 6.8 (again the min label is 6.8...

Thanks for your input and help. As far as I know, there is no in-line chlorinator but I will double check it today. I will also do the full measurement and will post the numbers.

Hi Everyone, This is my first post and I am happy that I found this website while searching the internet. I just bought a house with a pool and will be moving in next week. Since I dont know anything about pools and dont know how the pool was taken care of by the previous owners, I just took a...