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Hey all, I had a lot of ugly iron stains and performed an ascorbic acid treatment in September 2020 in accordance with a couple TFP threads. Took a while, but it worked great! I used Jack's Pink Stuff as my sequestering agent. I was reluctant to spend $100 on a Sequestrant test kit, so I didn't...

From the AA instructions on this forum: "Take your chlorine down to 0 and PH down to 7.2, if there is chlorine in the water it won't hurt, it will just eat up the ascorbic acid, so you will need more to get rid of the stains. You can add poyquat 60 per directions on the bottle to avoid getting...

I'm not sure this is the best category for this, so please move if there's a better place for this question. If we are forced to let the pool go due to income/business loss and needing to buy food over chemicals, what is the best way to shut it down? Should we continue running the pump? How...

My 13-year-old took over pool chemicals while I was sick. Now my pH is unreadable- bright tomato orange. My (not hooked up) pool light also lost it‘s screw & floated out of its home, revealing what looks like black algae in the recess. It doesnt budge when scrubbed- even with a metal brush. The...

My neighbor's crape myrtle is RAINING debris in my pool. Have any of you tried this basket, and did it work for you? Skim-A-Round "All-In-One"

Hello! I have water on the ground all around my pump and air bubbles coming from only one of my two pool jets. The pump has to be primed every time we empty the debris from the basket, which has been the case since we moved here 1.5 years ago. Of these issues, which is most concerning, and...

It is SLAM day 7 for us. Still losing vast quantities of chlorine, though the pool looks gorgeous. Everything has been well-scrubbed except behind the pool light, which I could not remove. My husband finally got it free today. And we found this. It is super lumpy, bumpy, black, green, gray up...

This thread is a combined thread from three previous threads. There may be some jumping around but the need to combine these threads to reduce confusion was necessary! Thanks - Marty - TFP Mod The good news: We've gone from pic A to pic B since Sunday! Started SLAM w/ ph at 7.2, CYA 55...

I had my pump off for two days while doing a drain/fill to lower CYA levels, so now algae is worse than ever & I'm ready to SLAM! FC 0 PH 7.2 CYA 55 Temp 84 According to pool calculator my shock level is 17, but the chlorine/CYA chart says 22. And of course for mustard, it's even higher. Before...

Hello, We moved to a house with a pool about 10 months ago. We've made every mistake in the book, made Leslie's and Amazon very happy with excess chemical purchases and been given wildly different advice by 3 different pool companies as to how to solve our problems. We live in Houston, TX, so...