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Hey, you were right about Walmart! The Walmart web site had been giving me Silicon Valley prices because of my VPN. The local store was $5.47. It's too bad that they uncase them all -- I mean -- who buys one gallon? Gallon jugs don't exactly stack.

I just opened the pool. I guess I am looking at $9/gallon for 10% chlorine; maybe $8 if I get lucky. Just a few years ago, I used to buy the Home Depot brand for that price for a case of 3! (My father-in-law would say "Old man Used is dead.") Does anyone have any better ideas in the...

I just bought a Dolphin Explorer E30, but I could not find an applicable rebate code. Did I miss it? Thanks.

I just got my first robot, a Dolphin Explorer E30. I am kind of limited for convenient storage options. I was thinking of Yet Another deck box, or even a dog house! Would the deck box be good enough for summer provided that it is out of full sun? I know there are a lot of directions about...

The walls were extended. The new steel is lapped to the old above, and sunk into the hard bottom. I really like the idea of fabricating a bottom step. Thanks! My only concern is that the original steps are rotomolded, and are past their prime in terms of exposure to the elements, so I should...

The pool is rectangular, 16x32. There's no coving -- steel wall all the way down. It's dug, and the hard bottom is in. Very few options due to COVID. Merlin and other suppliers had nothing in stock for an under-liner step, and they can't be made in any reasonable time frame (read: swim this...

I am having my pool reconfigured to fill in the "diving hole" in the deep end, and dig out the shallow end to 4' of water, 54" to pool rim. I had a set of "wedding cake"-like drop-in steps from a Canadian manufacturer, with nice chrome rails mounted to the concrete deck. Called "The Step". They...

I have a 16x32 vinyl-liner in-ground pool. It has that "old-school" depth profile, with a ~3' shallow end, a 3' safety ledge all the way around, and an 8-foot deep hole at the "diving" end. I use quotes because there is no board, and I'm not planning on one. I think the previous owner had a...

I had given up in the Maryland suburbs (my former source being Home Depot). Last night I checked ACE Hardware, and most of the stores in this area were expecting HTH 10% liquid chlorine in today or tomorrow. I just got back from a slightly far-flung store (Edgewater, MD) with 4 cases of 4...

Well, my pool is clean, my water is clear, my CC is zero, and my CYA is zero. Why not just tri-chlor it to maintain some FC and let the CYA build to a medium range? I have about 12 gallons of 10% liquid . The other approach would be to add CYA to 30, use what I have, and hope to find more...

17,000 gallon, in ground, vinyl liner. I get that dichlor and trichlor are seen as undesirable because they add CYA. However here is my situation: I opened the pool a week ago, and it was in terrible shape -- algae and debris -- my cover really failed me last winter. It is now clean and...

I found it in Canada. The manufacturer name has changed at least once, and the design has changed slightly (wider top step). https://www.poolsuppliescanada.ca/the-step-inground-drop-in-two-rails.html http://www.innovaplas.com/products/inground/MC30013/

I am happy with my in-ground steps, but they will not last forever, and are showing signs of weakness. I want to replace them before they fail in use. I will attach a picture, and also a picture on the Internet that I think are the same steps. The Internet picture was on some weird data...

I have yet more questions from a first-time winterizer. 17,000 gallon in-ground, vinyl liner. I am sure that the pool was completely full when "winterized" before I bought the house, so there's that -- just an observation. Draining the pool to below the inlet/outlet height will drain a *lot*...

I drained about 6,000 of 17,000 gallons -- more of a schedule issue than anything else, as this took 20 hours of supervision. I think my CYA is down to 80 or so. I'm still lousy at the test, and I am seldom around in full sunlight! I can do another change later, or just keep the FC up for the...

I am draining more. I did the 5-gallon bucket test and found out that my pump is only removing 300 gallons an hour. (I probably only changed ~2,000 gallons last time.) I think the fill is slightly faster. So, I am going to drain for 10 hours, drain-and-fill for 10 hours, then fill to the correct...

I got some more "pool store" water analysis. They say the pH is 8, and it might well be, for all I know. They say TA is 120. I drop-tested it twice and it came out exactly 180 both times. They say that my CYA has not come down hardly at all -- 129 -- and I hope they are wrong about that. The...

So, I had no access to a flow meter (the house meter being of the "buried under a pentalobe plate in the front yard" variety", so I just did some water exchange on Friday to make a start. I pumped out up high on the shallow side and filled with a garden hose zip-tied to a pole at the low point...

It would make sense to me that I could draw water from the near the surface at the shallow end, and put in water at the bottom of the deep end, then the cold water coming in will mostly stay deep. The pool water is over 80 now. I do need to find myself a flow meter using this method, though, or...

Oh, cool. That should get my measurement on to the scale. Thanks! I don't have any kind of flow meter, so I think I will be guessing on the draining and filling. I will be too chicken to drain a whole lot in one go, so I will just iterate draining and filling until I get there. Maybe I should...

I do have the test kit. I did confirm most of these numbers with the test kit. The CYA was confirmed insofar as the viewing tube was obscured well before I got to 100 -- extending the scale, maybe 135. I will try draining a couple of feet and re-filling, and do a full range of tests after that...

I am a newbie trying to wrangle the pool of a house I just bought. The pool *looks* great, BTW, for some reason. Perhaps it's too toxic for algae to grow. I had been testing free chlorine and ph with the daily kit while doing the move, and CYA only with a test strip. So, what I thought I knew...

The test kit is in the mail! Thanks!

There are some old threads on this subject, but as directed by the site, i am starting a "fresh" one. I am a total newbie. We will be taking possession of a house tomorrow. An in-ground pool is a nice bonus (or I hope so). I just saw the pool de-winterized yesterday for the first time. It is a...