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I was at Leslie's the other day getting some liquid chlorine and they asked me AGAIN why I wasn't using the pucks and as usual, I said it was because of the CYA in them. The lady behind the counter said they have revamped how they make the pucks and they now have only 1% CYA in them but there is...

I have a friend that has a 15,000 gallon pool. DE filter and an SWG. Everything seems to be working normally but in the last 2 weeks, he is having a recurring problem with green slime on the walls of his pool. His PH has been a little high but he is keeping it in check with acid but his chlorine...

I've been doing the BBB method for a while now with great success. I've only had an algae outbreak once in that time and it was my fault. I got busy and didn't test or add chlorine for 3 days and by the end of the 3rd day, I finally asked my brother to come over to sweep and add some chlorine...

I have a good friend that is SLOOOOOOWLY converting to BBB. He seems to like it when I get involved, he then promptly disagrees with me because the pool store said something different, he then does it their way once and when it doesn't work out, he finally tries my way which then works out just...

I have an old sand filter and I have no idea how old the sand is. It's not filtering all that well in my opinion so I'd like to change the sand and I've read about "Zeosand" and others that filter much better than old school sand. Hence my questions. After a little research on the web, it seems...

I have a friend that just closed on his home here in Mesa Arizona but he won't be moving down from Oregon for another week or two. The home was a short sale so it took a while and during that time, I've filled the empty pool and kept it sparkling for the last few months with the BBB system. The...

I gotta tell ya. I'm really ****** at Leslie's. I know they must make a profit and that the profits on pool stuff is pretty high but what happened today just set me off. I have a Hayward King Ray pool cleaner. It stopped working and today so I figured the diaphram went bad. I didn't know how to...

I was running my normal tests this morning and something weird happened. It's happened to me a couple of times and I have no explanation for it. I was only testing my chlorine and PH this morning and my chlorine came up as almost nothing. I'm in a somewhat unusual situation as I'm taking care...

I started BBB when I opened my pool in early March. Opening for me is pretty much just taking the cover off as the winters here in the Phoenix area are mild to say the least. :-D Well, my levels were pretty far out of whack when I started. At the time, being that I was "pool stored", my...

Can I use muriatic acid to clean the scale out of my toilet? That's probably a dumb question but I'll ask it anyway. I'm in the Phoenix Arizona area and we have some of the hardest water in the country here. My toilets look like Crud. lol. I'm on a septic so I'm assuming MA shouldn't be used...

I'm in Mesa Arizona. Obviously it's hot here during the summer and a pool is a must if you ask me. I've been very successful at doing lots of things with my pool so far. Converting to BBB, making some solar heaters, etc. Well, it's mid summer and my water temps are 90+ or so. Just a little to...

I've been doing the BBB thing since I opened the pool in early March. Everything has been going smoothly with just a few questions here and there. My pool has never looked even close to this nice. Anyway, yesterday when I tested first thing in the morning, I had almost no chlorine left although...

Hey guys, I just wanted to let the new guys know that adding a little DE to your sand filter works wonders. A good friend of mine is in the process of purchasing a house and I was elected to fill the pool and get it up and running. I did that and I couldn't believe water could be so clear. His...

I'm getting a friends pool up and running for him until he is able to move from Oregon. I filled the pool, got the pumps and filter working and I added enough CYA to get it to about 25 PPM. I want to bump that up a little as the pool is in direct sunlight most of the day here in Arizona but I...

A good friend bought a house here in Arizona just down the street from me and he isn't moving down from Oregon for a couple of months so I'm filling it, I got the chemicals about right, working on the SWG system and I cleaned the filters. It has a DE filter. I just go the water up to the skimmer...

A friend of mine is buying a house and the pool has been empty for some time. Several months we are guessing. Anyway, I'm filling tonight and should have it filled up by tomorrow night. I'm a little new at pool ownership myself but I'm helping him out since he still lives in Oregon. So my...

I have a good friend of mine that has an accepted offer on a short sale. Now the long wait for the bank. The home has a plaster pool built about 12 years ago but it's empty. I'm in the Phoenix area and it's going to be hot here for a while. Today it's supposed to be about 110 and the same for...

I had some stains in my pool and someone on here said to apply a dichlor puck to the stain so I tried it and it worked great on most of the stains. There are a few stains that it didn't work on. Small, circular dark stains. I'm going to try vitamin C on those and see what happens. Anyway, it's...

Everytime I have an issue, I find the answer here. I have some black stains in a few spots in my plaster pool. Someone suggested taking a chlorine puck and placing it directly on the stain. What a difference. Just a few hours on the stains I've had since I moved in (1 year) and the stains are...

Hey guys, I have my pool sparkling so far this year but last year before I found this site I had trouble with things. I had what I think is black algae and a few other things. I still have some very small dark spots on my plaster. Anything I can do to get those out?

I just wanted to say thanks to all that have answered my questions this last year. I always had a little trouble keeping my pool clear and I used a LOT of chlorine. To make a long story short, I dumped about 20% of my water and refilled. I now have my CYA down to 45 and my chlorine use is down...

Hi everyone. I'm helping a friend that is in the process of buying a place here in the Phoenix area. I was checking out his equipment and it's pretty cool but I came across something that I didn't know what it was. It sits behind the waterfall feature and it's partially in the ground but it...

I moved from Oregon about a year ago and a good friend of mine visited me a few months ago and liked the area so much he just bought a house here. It's got a pebble tech pool. He is going to get a water softener and I know it will come up. Can he or should he fill his pool with soft water? I'm...

I have seen people on here say that they have vacuumed to waste. I have to dump some water because my CYA is a bit high and my calcium is around 480 so when I vacuum, I was thinking about lowering the water level that way increments at a time instead of all at once. It will take a few times but...

Hey guys, I'm having some relatives stop by for the weekend from California and I've been paying particular attention to the pool as that is the focal point of the entire house. All my levels are pretty good. My CYA is a little high at about 65 to 70 so I'm keeping the chlorine at around 5...

Hi again, I've finally eliminated the trichlore tabs and am now on liquid chlorine totally now. I was thinking about how the chlorine works and what makes it go away so I have a few questions. How does sun make chlorine go away? I live in the Phoenix area and my pool get sun literally 16...

I'm a fairly new pool owner. I've been using trichlor the last year but I adjust chlorine levels with liquid chlorine. Usually the 10% stuff. So I am going to stop using trichlor because it's raising my CYA. I have a sand filter so I do backwash often so over a little time, I should be able to...

I'm sure this has probably been asked before but I haven't found where yet so I'll just ask again. Ideally, we would like to be able to add chlorine to our water without adding anything else. The pucks add CYA. Can't someone make a trichlor puck with no CYA, calcium or anything else that...

I've got an older plaster pool. It was green a few months ago but I finally got it cleaned up and in good shape. Today I was swimming around and I got to messing with the pool light. I figured it was in there with springs and such so I decided to pull it out and see what holds it together. Well...

I've been working on my pool for weeks now. Got the green out, the water is clear, my home made solar heaters are working perfectly and my water seems stable. Here are my morning test results. FC=3 CC=3 PH=7.5 TA=110 CH=450 CYA=55-60 Water temp=87 How am I looking so far? I have a solar...