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Hi everyone. My SWG is three years old. I take the SWG inside for the winter. This year when I hooked it back up it was totally dark. No power or lights on at all. Inside the power box it looks fine, green light is on near the small fuse. I changed to fuse to be safe, still nothing. I bought a...

Hi Everyone, Just opened my pool in NC, initial water a little cloudy and insane amounts of worms. I filled with my well water, which is high in iron, fixed one leaking pipe and broke pressure gauge, running the Melvin the robot vacumn every chance I get. After filling and pump running initial...

I suspect I’ve already bought the expensive designer salt unless I want to drive it an hour back to the pool company and try to get a refund. I haven’t got the final bill for the install yet. I’m glad it’s ok to use. I do have a new Taylor salt test kit, it’s in the new kit I bought to refresh...

Thanks in advance everyone. You guys are great. As above, new vinyl liner, new water, first time SWG. I’ve added baking soda, chlorine, CYA. Tonights numbers: FC 0.5. (FC 0 yesterday added a gallon to get to 3 ppm, 0.5 tonight so added 2 gallons) CYA still 0 (Started in sock in skimmer...

Thank you for your help. I wasn’t very clear about the salt level. I meant to say that I hadn’t added any yet. My Taylor kit doesn’t have salt testing yet as SWG is new but test kit is on the way.

Hi everyone! Just had my new vinyl liner and SWG installed and I’m confused on how to start to balance. FC 0 PH very low. It was yellow in color Salt 0 TA 30 CYA 0 Temp is 61 degrees and water almost full enough to start pump and start to balance. What goes first? Thanks for help you guys...

I bought my new house with the pool 15 months ago. Had a great season with the help of TFP all year. I closed the pool a month ago and in recent days the pool water has begun to drain away under the tarp cover. I have no idea how old the vinyl liner is but it’s old, it’s stretched and pulled...

Appreciate the insight. You can see where I got confused. The drop from 60 to 30 was not accompanied by water exchange except a few inches. I’ve redone the test three times and same results. My overnight chlorine loss is almost zero. The only factor is blazing all day sun. I’m chlorinating with...

Hi Everyone, thanks for help. New pool owner here. I started with half empty swamp pool in March. I refilled pool and CYA level was 80. With this website and forum I SLAMed the pool and it went great. Loving my pool which is clean and clear. Two questions. 1) 4-6 weeks ago we had a lot of...

Hi And thanks in advance for help. My pool is new to me and I’ve taken over this year from a pool service. Opened the pool with a SLAM and your help and all going fantastic. After drain and refill of half the pool CYA levels were at 80 to start and I planned to do another drain and refill again...

New pool owner just taking over from once a week pool service. Started with a swamp as winter cover had blown in. Have been vacuuming and backwashing sand filter as needed. Pool appearance is much better BUT..... I’m worried it’s still cloudy. Last nights numbers FC 32 CC 0 CYA 80 This...

Thanks everyone. I have a Taylor K2006 test kit. I forgot the the SLAM FC would raise the pH. I shouldn't have bothered to check it after I started. Of course now I don't understand why it was in the normal range. I am using liquid chlorine to treat. The pool had a low water level to start...

I bought a house last fall with a pool that was maintained with a once a week pool service. They closed but I intend to take over. Over the winter the cover blew in so I started this year with a swamp. In ground pool. I'm guessing 25,000 gallons by calculations. Sand filter, there is a...