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  1. cparktd

    Oh happy day! Uncovered pool today.

    Yea I guess the light could be plugged somehow. Only the guts come out and the housing stays put. The housing isn't designed to be plugged, isn't threaded, but possibly could be plugged with some kind of expansion plug. I'll have to remember to investigate that. The hole through it is around...
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    Oh happy day! Uncovered pool today.

    Water already balanced... Two gallons of bleach dumped in. Remove steps. Cover. On the mechanical side... Removed pump/filter basket, multi way valve and SWG and store in garage. Removed drain plug from sand filter and leave out. Replaced the temporary stand pipe holder that came with the...
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    Oh happy day! Uncovered pool today.

    Well, don't know, might work. I have 2 returns, one deeper one "eyeball" that I can screw out and put a plug in but one is a combo light/return and it is through the wall about 5 inches below the skimmer plate so I drain the water below that and remove the gus from that one. I'm afraid to...
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    Oh happy day! Uncovered pool today.

    Beautiful Sunday afternoon so I braved uncovering the pool today and re-installing the pump and SWG removed at shutdown to prevent freezing. Well, the water looks... how shall I put it... PERFECT! ;) Like it was just closed yesterday and not 6 months ago... Could not be any cleaner or...
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    Protective clothing to wear when pouring chlorine

    Amazon has chemical resistant work aprons fairly cheap. Might not be 100% protection but one might help and it would be pretty quick and easy to throw on.
  6. cparktd

    Dumping salt water in the woods

    Is that out of the operating range of your SWCG? Mine says 3000 to 4000 ppm.
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    Name your Top 5 inventions of all time

    Penicillin The Pill Sweet Tea Bacon Woven cloth
  8. cparktd

    Still cloudy! + raise ph?

    Don't burn up a new motor too! (if thats even what happened) Check the gauge and length of the extension cord to make sure it is big enough to carry the load of the pump. Fat cord... and the shortest one that will reach.
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    Hand holding needed! Water balancing attempt for SWG conversion .

    Did you see my linked photo album in my sig? Well first off I had 20 years as an electrician in my first carrier with my contractor dad's construction company so this was pretty much child's play for me. It's about 250 feet as the wire runs from the far corner of the house to the pool...
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    Liner questions

    Two small divots? Ha! Mine has developed dozens over three seasons, likely from kids playing rough and striking the bottom with their heal. The bottom looks like the surface of the moon at night with the pool light on and it was perfect smooth when new. They used 6 tons of sand, was barely...
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    Hand holding needed! Water balancing attempt for SWG conversion .

    Yea I knew what he was referring to... And you know I always try my best to follow the TFP advice!
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    Hand holding needed! Water balancing attempt for SWG conversion .

    Well my new SWCG works SO good I don't even have to turn it on... :ROFLMAO: But seriously... ...trying to adjust it after the slam. I let the FC drop to 5 with the cover off and some aeration, then I turned on the SWG 12 hr/day @45%, and put the cover back on, FC starts going up. So...
  13. cparktd

    Complete green algae

    I only tested for FC during the slam, might as well save those supplies until you get it done.
  14. cparktd

    Complete green algae

    Make sure to stay with it. Do your best to keep the chlorine at or above slam level. Patience was the hardest part for me! Mine wasn't too bad but I still pumped and filtered on high speed 24/7 until I passed the ONCLT two nights in a row.
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    pool sanitizing systems - silver ion versus salt

    I think you have decided but I will reinforce the opinions expressed by others. I fought an ionizer system for three seasons. I bought into the hype plus the store said a salt system would void the warrantee on my new above ground pool. It was costly and it took twice the recommended...
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    Salt water TFTest speedstir question???

    Should look like this.
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    Sad. Pool advice given on neighborhood "Next Door" app.

    No joke. And no I didn't invite them over. I mean, if you can tell PH from a photo why would you need TFP?
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    Sad. Pool advice given on neighborhood "Next Door" app.

    Wow! I have no words. Here is a picture of a pool... the request for help on "Next Door" and the reply he got word for word. This guy is good huh? Can determine pool PH from a photo. The original post: Will pay $$$$. Apparently my pool vacuum is subpar and I'm just having a hard...
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    Donation

    Menu> Support TFP> near bottom of page... Reoccurring OR custom amounts. EDIT to add: Ha! thought I could help! Got beat to it...
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    Liquid Chlorine Price and Supply

    Stuff was 10 months old... maybe I got lucky. Think I'll go buy a lottery ticket.
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    Liquid Chlorine Price and Supply

    Thanks for the date code decoder mknauss, I'll look tomorrow, I think I have a few gallons left.
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    Liquid Chlorine Price and Supply

    Sorry but I have to disagree with the expensive water comment. It worked great, easily got my FC over 20 and a SLAM successfully done. The results of my adds equaled almost exactly what pool math predicted so how bad could it be? So... perhaps it was properly stored? How long is the...
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    Liquid Chlorine Price and Supply

    Lowes here has 3 different kinds stocked in three different places. 10% in the pool supplies, 6% in the cleaning isle and a stack of it on an endcap marked "clearance" for $2.39 IIRC. I did the math and the clearance stuff amounted to a couple cents per oz cheaper for the actual chlorine...
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    Hand holding needed! Water balancing attempt for SWG conversion .

    OK, I thought I owed you guys a check in. But first Happy Fathers Day! I got a couple of cool tee shirts and an awesome waterproof JBL charge 5 bluetooth speaker for the pool deck. It's was a busy week including stripping the deck to re-stain. (covered the pool up with a tarp) Had three...
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    Go ahead and laugh at me but hear me out...

    Don't cover it up during a SLAM. Thats for routine conditions... True or not I have read that the SLAM process produces outgassing than need to escape the pool...