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I am late to the party but I will definitely be checking in on this thread. I have a boring vinyl liner and the only thing exciting when I got a new one was how much of a difference the beautiful blue made our backyard look compared to the old faded liner. It is really cool to see all the bare...

How are you putting the AA in the water? Is the pump off with the water completely still? Whenever I do an AA treatment, I will leave the pump off for a couple hours and then sprinkle the AA powder around the perimeter of the pool to allow it to slowly make its way down the walls onto the floor...

The previous owner used well water. Do you have a different water source to fill up the pool? If not, you are also going to be putting in well water and therefore iron. I have iron from the city water, pumped from a well, and will just use sequestrant whenever I have a big pool party which I...

Movement of water makes a significant difference in whether or not water freezes when near freezing temps. I completely drained my equipment so I didn't have to worry and just ran a little pump with a hose going from the steps to the deep end, with the water coming out a 6-8 inches above the...

We got down to 3F yesterday morning and I had a frozen toilet line and two frozen spigots. I spent a few hours yesterday messing with the water and trying to get them flowing again. No water leaks, fortunately. I completely drained the pool equipment in advance and I have been running a little...

You amateurs are completely over thinking this freezing water issue. You can completely avoid any freeze issues by simply building a bonfire in the middle of your pool and just thrown on a couple logs every few hours. The rusty wheelbarrow or steel drum may give you some iron staining later but...

Believe it or not, scooping the foam off with the plate actually worked as I had zero foam this morning. It was tedious so not practical but if I occasionally get a lot of foam, I am going to get out the ShopVac to remove a lot of it. Good point about rinsing the filters. That is easy to just...

Any tips on reducing the foaming once the lotions and detergents are already in the water? I can start wearing the same suit without washing it but my wife and 2 boys have eczema so they have to put on a lot of lotions, especially in winter. I don't see it practical to keep this stuff from...

As a UT grad, it was difficult to listen to my 9yo son root for Alabama. In his defense, Georgia has been the more dominant team in his limited time as a football fan. When he asked me, "well which team are you rooting for then?", I replied "I am rooting for the stadium to have a catastrophic...

So this is my new setup on the back porch. What is cooler than watching football on a 100" screen? Watching it while sitting in 103* water. The inflatable hot tub was obviously a lot cheaper than a real one but one of the big factors for me was portability. I will move it out by the pool for it...

I was able to get the temp down to 57 with the cold front. Still not cold enough for recovery for my legs but that will certainly help with reducing the FC demand.

I also do a lot of running and fall is normally a time when I am training for a lot for races. Cold pool water serves really well for convenient ice baths for recovery by just standing in the shallow end for 5-10 minutes. It is not really fun in January when the pool water gets down into the...

One of the things I have done the very beginning of October the past couple years is to start running my fountain sprayer to cool off the pool water as much as possible. Without a heater, swimming season is behind us and the colder your water, the less FC you will need. We are getting a cold...

Man Arrested For Dropping Green Dye In Pools With a Drone Man Arrested For Dropping Green Dye In Pools With a Drone

I forgot to post an update. I put 5 oz of food coloring in a 1 gallon jug of water. I added almost a pound of salt to make sure the dye sank to the floor. I used a funnel attached to a really skinny pvc pipe and slowly circled the edge of the pool while pouring in the red concoction. Did it find...

I put in my monthly order with Walmart to get 12 gallons delivered and they sent me an email an hour later saying I was refunded. WM is completely out in our area too. The price was decent at just under $6 per gallon but the convenience of having 12 jugs dropped off on my front porch the next...

That's why I order it from Walmart.com because I don't have to go to that store. I also don't have to risk wasting my time if it is out of stock at the store because ordering it online will find one of the 12 stores in my area which has it in stock. The store it normally gets delivered from is a...

It is just the very basic type of food coloring and not something a professional cake baker would use. Green food coloring in a pool, that actually sounds like a good prank idea... :devilish:

I have yet to take the SWG plunge and I use 1 gallon of bleach every two days in my 26k gallon pool to maintain FC. You are going to need a lot of it. I order mine from Walmart.com for $5.67 a gallon and someone delivers it in their car like DoorDash. Walmart only has a $35 minimum for free...

I am dealing with a very stealthy leak in my liner which I have searched for hours with the snorkel and used up all my red food coloring bottle. As I am now very frustrated, I am now devising a contraption to go around the edge of the pool with a large amount of green in hopes I might be able to...

Cool idea to test. I will have to try it the next time I do an AA treatment to compare side by side with my tap water. I know I have iron so I guess the scientific test will be which turns darker brown. One spring I was doing a full water exchange after AA using the tarp method. I left the...

Here are pictures of my polyfil iron catcher. You can get some PVC attachments to hook up a garden hose to one of your returns and cap the others so there is enough pressure. Here is another thread where I have chimed in and gone into more detail about my process of mitigating (not eliminating)...

Definitely looks like a lot of calcium scale in the deep end. This is where the liner pattern appears to have faded away completely but it is just a white layer of calcium covering up the pattern. Stick to the liquid bleach and stay away from the cal-hypo (bags of "shock"). The calcium scale on...

Posting an update incase anyone else has this issue in the future. I was able to get it out using a pry bar with a 1.5 in end on it which fit in those slots perfectly and gave me enough leverage to turn the threads.

Good job @Woody007 @Texas Splash Thanks for the shout out but my picture was cheating since there was only 6 inches of water in the pool and the liner was only 2 hours old. After 5 years, the liner is a bit more faded. I guess I have made a reputation on TFP whining about my battles with iron...

As clear as air...

Any ideas on how I can get this sucker out? I bought a new quick connect and the old one broke off while trying to install the new one. It's in there pretty solid as I normally have to use slip joint pliers to get it off.