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Hi! Thanks so much for the reply & all your insight! I had carefully read through Texas Splash’s experience and that was where I got some of my ideas including raising the calcium level. He said, “we can assume FB pools need no calcium because they were not made with plaster products, the CH and...

We’re in our 3rd season with our fiberglass pool. Started following TFP method religiously mid-season last year. Recently our water level dropped a few inches due to evaporation, and I realized there was now a white coating on the exposed fiberglass surface when it’s dry. It’s not above the...

Opened pool on Tuesday and am super excited for my first FULL season following the TFP method from open to close! (Transitioned over last year and will never look back.) I was so pleased with how clean the pool was upon opening, and SLAM was literally complete in 3 days! Super exciting! 🙌...

You are geniuses!!!!! Just retested with a different vial and what do you know, .5 CC!!!! Thank you thank you!

Ok nowwwww we’re talking. Off to clean my vial now… Never have cleaned it! 🤦🏻‍♀️

That’s what I figured! Thankfully I didn’t take their bait and buy the PhosAway they were trying to sell me today though. When I got home, I discovered I had an unused bottle that they sold me last year (before I was wiser), so after some research, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to add it. I will...

**Wasn’t sure if anyone would read to the bottom to see my update in my other post about difficulty lowering my CC during slamming, so figured I would start a new post. Not sure what the acceptable way is to update one’s post on here.** Update to my post yesterday - CC level has remained...

Update to this post - CC level has remained around 1.5 today. I decided to take my water for a pool store test just out of curiosity to see what they said, even though I really don’t trust them much. They said I had practically no combined chlorine, which I don’t understand. However, they also...

I don't think we can take our light out like that. The pool was new last year. Husband says we'd have to replace the whole unit.

Pool is not covered. We don't have a ladder. There two lights, which look clean to me, but I could try cleaning them (although this would require getting in the pool. Is that safe with FC 28 and CC 2.5?). Would rather avoid a partial drain because we have a fiberglass pool. I have definitely...

I'm new to the TFP method this year and have been learning so much as I go. I messed up last week and have definitely learned my lesson, but at this point, I need HELP! Against my better judgement and the advice I'd gotten here, I had continued to use frog bac pac chlorinator cartridges...

Update - After unreturned calls & BS email replies, I resorted to posting on pentair’s social media. Hate to do that, but it got results. They private messaged me the same day & took care of the rebate!

I keep trying to submit a rebate request on Pentair’s website (recently purchased the Warrior SI from Marina) & every time I get to the final page and click submit, it just goes to a blank page and won’t give me any kind of confirmation. anyone else have this problem? It definitely is not going...

Opened the pool a week ago now, but haven’t been able to consistently maintain slam level FC. As I posted about a few days ago, I will continuously add chlorine according to the Pool Math recommended amount, but it will usually take multiple additions before I can get it back above slam level...

The water is crystal clear. There was just debris on the bottom in the areas it didn’t visit.

I went ahead and ran it. Now I’m officially annoyed with it as it spent 2 hours in the same area of the deep end & never touched 2/3 of the pool (where most of the dirt is). ? But I guess that will be for another thread...

Yes, I’ve been brushing every day, & the only time I turned the pump off all week was when I ran the robot yesterday for 2-3 hours. I wanted to see if that would make the robot more efficient. Sidenote that the robot is brand new and this was our first time using it, but both times it missed an...

Ran it Friday & yesterday, but now I’m nervous to put it in again with chlorine levels above slam level ?

Well, we added the recommended 18 ounces last night, and this morning the FC jumped to 24, and then up to 26 this afternoon... so maybe my pool is just taking an extra long time to circulate the chlorine we added yesterday…?? ??‍♀️??‍♀️

That crossed my mind too... My husband says he's very confident :unsure:

I've been studying all the literature big time this week! I'm a newbie to this process. No access to the liquid bleach right now. I did ask my husband to look at Home Depot today, but the shopping experience was a nightmare due to Covid restrictions, so for now we're stuck using the 73% hypo-cal...

Hi all. Opened pool and started SLAM on Tuesday. Pool company added too much chlorine, so we were above my SLAM level (20) until last night (Friday). It had dropped to 17.5 by last night, so I started adding 73% Cal-Hypo according to the amount that Pool Math said. It was up to 18 this morning...

Subject line says it all. I feel so dumb for asking, but I couldn't find anything about it when I read the manual (Warrior SI) other than the troubleshooting page at the end, which mentioned a potential cause of one problem being that "pool filter and pump is on." If I hadn't read that, it would...

Do you mean that it should be caulked above or below that white plastic strip? And what kind would you recommend?

Thanks so much for your help!

No retaining walls, no ground water at all close to the pool. After some googling, I do think you guys were right about the efflorescence though. Any tips on removal?

The white plastic strip was something that they used to establish the coping, like part of the mould. I've always been unhappy with the way it looks and don't understand exactly why we have it...I never noticed it on other pools. The pool installer never came back again after the coping was...