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I've read some posts about this and wanted to ask in light of our situation. We live in CT and have a swimming season that goes from mid-May to October (at most). We have a 33,000 sf pool and are currently running a Jandy CL580, which is about as large a cartridge filter as we can get. I have...

I am not sure if this is the right part of the forum, but here is my question. We had a serious rainstorm yesterday (a good 2 inches of rain) and we had a LOT of frogs in our skimmers. There were big ones, small ones, medium ones, dead ones and live ones. I cleared out a good 15 dead frogs...

I think our solar cover was a major source of the difficulty I had passing the OCLT after having passed it a few days earlier. I suspect that algae was starting to bloom, and it didn't help that I kept the pool covered the entire week, although I was monitoring my FC levels and shocking to try...

I passed the OCLT last week and thought I was good to go, so I let the FC drift back down to normal levels over the course of the weekend. On Monday night, I tested a FC of 7. The next morning I was at 5.5 FC, with CC of .5, so I figured it was time to shock again. Here are what my test...

My CYA has declined below 30 over the past week or so. I thought I was around 35 last weekend, but I guess the rain and filter cleaning took its toll. Anyway, I seem to have no problem holding chlorine, even on sunny days. Is there a need for me to boost the CYA to 30? I understand that I...

Is there a reason to get only OEM replacement cartridges? I purchased non-Jandy cartridges last year (manufactured by Pleatco). They seem to get "dirty" faster and result in quicker increases in psi. I found that my old Unicel cartridges could take a greater beating than the Pleatco ones...

I have been working to clear out the cloudiness in our pool for the past week and a half, raising our FC to well over shock levels each evening, and adding bleach in the morning as well, even though I am starting above shock levels in the morning. I am losing around 2-2.5 FC each evening, but...

We opened the pool last week and I did an initial test using the Taylor 2006. I had no discernible CYA reading (filled the tube to the top and had no problem seeing the black dot). I finished last fall with a CYA in the 30s. Is it possible that the accumulated rainfall over the winter and...

Someone in my house must have thrown out the scoop that came with our test kit after I left it to dry in the kitchen. How precise do I need to be with the measurement of the DPD powder? If I add too much, will my FC readings be too high?

Our pool opened to a green swamp, which was bad enough, but the CYA levels were very low, as were the calcium levels. I have gotten to brining the CYA up, but have not yet adjusted the calcium yet (I am more concerned with shocking the algae). Is there any reason why I shouldn't consider...

Our pump failed last Friday, right in the middle of a 95+ hot, humid heatwave. I was very nervous about maintaining the pool with such heat, in the face of a broken pump, particularly as we had a lot of sun during the course of the following week, as well as 3 serious downpours. I figured the...

So everything seemed to be going pretty well, decent water flow, circulation, etc. until today. I come home from work and my pump is not circulating any water. The water is in the skimmer attached to the pump, but I have no water circulating back into the pool. I bled the air out of the...

I am finding that the white material on my daughter's bathing suits is turning green. This has happened on 2 suits so far. It doesn't seem to happen to my suit or my son's, but we don't have the same material. I haven't added any algaecide for at least 4 or 5 weeks and now am only adding...

We had a party at our house yesterday, so I raised our FC the night before in anticipation of the heavy swimmer load and the sunny, warm (85+) weather. My CYA is testing around 30-40, so I brought the FC to around 8, which is where it stood yesterday morning around 8 am. We had 10 kids and 6...

Every morning when I brush the flooor of my pool, I get a fine powdery mist that quickly dissipates. It is much more prevalent in the deep end of the pool, which is more shaded in late afternoon, although I will get some powdery mist in the shallow end as well. However, the powder does not...

Does anyone have suggestions as to where to get a decent market umbrella to use with a Telescope table? The local patio shops want at least $300 + stand. I am not convinced I will get longevity to warrant that price.

We bought our house last year and the pool has a cartridge filter. Growing up, we used to have a DE filter and I remember that as being relatively easy to backwash and clean. It also was pretty easy to vacuum to waste. I am just getting used to the cartridge filter and so far, I have not seen...

So I thought I might have mustard algae as I had two yellowish deposits on the floor of the deep end. I had been keeping my solar cover on, 24/7 as I was working and no one else was home, so I figured that didn't help matters as far as mustard algae was concerned. In any event, I shocked my...

I seem to have lost 20 ppm of CYA over the last 2 weeks, which does not make sense. I am using the Taylor 2006 test kit and when I tested 2 weeks ago, it said my CYA was 50. Last night I tested and it said my CYA is 30. We did have a lot of rain on 2 occasions after the initial test and I...

I bought a Rocky's Roller 3A to use with my cover and I am finding that the assembly instructions are a bit confusing. I am not overly handy, but I can handle basic home projects. Have other people struggled with assembling this reel? I am contemplating hiring someone to help me with the...