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Do you have freeze protection to turn on your pump when Temps get low? This will be the 5th winter I've had a pool and I've never closed, nor had any problems. My equipment is in a pump house that stays fairly warm, but I do worry a bit more since the big freeze in Texas! I know a lot of people...

I would make them fix it. Two feet is a huge difference. There is nothing the grandson and I love better than diving down and swimming around the bottom of the pool. I only went 6 feet deep, that was a mistake. If you wanted 8, I don't think you'll be happy.

I run mine just high enough to let the swg work, 1200 rpm, and let it run round the clock. I keep this schedule year round since though it gets too cold to swim, the pool stays open through the winter. When the swg stops working due to cold Temps, I add chlorine manually, but don't need much in...

Well, it seems obvious that your salt water chlorine generator is not creating enough chlorine to overcome the algae, so, yes, add more to keep it at bay until you can test properly.

The only thing salt will do is make them retain water, am I right ladies?

I'm in the north Atlanta suburbs. I've never closed. When the leaves fall, I scoop them out for about 3 weeks and empty the skimmer baskets daily. After that the only thing in there are wolf spiders so i tend to not check them more than once a week. I don't run my robot again until spring. As...

Dept, everyone has you well covered on the topic of eradicating algae. I'm gonna weigh in to say I have 5 indoor cats currently. I tend a colony of 12 ferals who decided to live on my back porch 12 years ago, they drink out of the (salt) pool every day. I haven't ever had algae, and all of the...

Gunite for me, no question.

Welcome to tfp, start here: Pool School Come back and ask any questions you have. You'll love having a trouble free pool!

Doh, bromine. Glad you caught that, not sure how I missed it! Apologies poolin!

Welcome to TFP. That looks like algae. Do you have one of the test kits that TFP uses to make recommendations? The TF100 from tftestkits.net or the Taylor K2006C, available from Amazon. With one of those kits in hand, you can perform an overnight chlorine loss test. If you lose more than 1ppm...

Thanks all, and especially Kimkats, I'll show your reply to my daughter, she was pretty proud of that one!

Daughter snapped this one, she has a much better eye than me!

Hi Dannym, I think most of us are pretty busy with work, family etc. Home testing takes literally 10 minutes. Much less time than running to the pool store. There is no need to shut your pool down for 4 days, as long as your chlorine in between minimum and slam level for your CYA, you can...

I just dump the residual, on the ground and rinse the test tube with pool water. About once a month, ill clean them with rubbing alcohol. For the little spoon, I usually just let it swirl in the speed stir, then take it out and do the test. That gets off any clinging powder

Yes, the plaster color changed noticeably once the chemicals were balanced. I want to say a couple of weeks till it showed the true color. It is a blue green though and changes shading throughout the day.

Basically no one uses the comparator for chlorine. The powder test is so much more accurate, why would you guess with the block?

One of the best pieces of advice I ever read on TFP: get a long piece of skinny pvc, plug it with your thumb, get your water sample from the appropriate depth, release your thumb to get the water, plug it again. I use that method to fill my measuring cup then run all my samples Inside. Warm and dry!

If your still using the trichlor tabs you mentioned in your opening post, those would lower your PH.

I'm sorry you can't make pool math work. I attached a screen shot of effects of adding powder dichlor just to give you an idea of what it will do to FC and CYA in a 24000 gal pool.

Of course not, and you shouldn't. I am not versed in what it might do or not to the cell. Just pointing out that many if not most people here us muriatic without issue to salt cells. I'm sure one of our science guys will weigh in here.

Kuddos to you for taking control of your pool! Do you have, or can you download the poolmath app? It can help you determine how much solid chlorine, with cya, to add to your pool to increase your CYA enough to protect your chlorine. When adding the solid chlorine, you would need to adjust or...

TFP recommends muriatic for reducing PH. Most pool maintenance companies here in the U.S. also use muriatic for PH control. Sulfuric acid is stronger and has more health risks.

Hello rteen, I see you are in Turkey, are you able to get one of the test kits that TFP recommends? I know outside the U.S. the kits can be difficult if not impossible to find. It will be very hard to manage your pool the TFP way without fas-dpd at least, to manage the higher chlorine levels.

Well shoot, thanks Deb, guess I only read the first one that they passed.

I am late weighing in, but does your robot pick it up? I get a gritty sand from my coping in my dolphin when I run it. You can definately pinch it and it is very gritty, like coarse sand. Does your coping look like mine? You're not far from me so it may be the same material. I know your already...

I should ask first, how are you testing? You will need either a K2006C from amazon or a TF100 or TF pro from tftestkits.net. Using one of those kits you can slam. Have you read all the slam process? SLAM - Shock Level and Maintain When you start the slam it is best to check chlorine...