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Thanks for all the help!

And today...

I vacuumed like crazy this early afternoon and got all the brown stuff off the bottom. It looked way worse than that yesterday. I'll get more sequestrate tomorrow and post pix. Is raising pH and/or chlorine likely to cause it to brown up again, or would that only happen if I add more water from...

Here's a pic…the water was nice and sparkly blue yesterday before I added chlorine. It's far less brown than it was!

I put the sequestrate in last night and woke up to a more green pool; it's much improved. There's a lot of brownish-red sediment on the floor of the pool. Thinking about it now, it's copper from some of the pipes we have in the basement. I guess the thing to do now is vacuum…I'll try vacuuming...

So I took a sample to the you-know-where to see if there's metal in the water. The sample results were: FC = 1.8 pH = 7.7 CH = 250 TA = 60 CYA = 10 Copper = .02 ppm Iron = 0 ppm The salesperson still recommended that I use a product called Metal Free from Natural Chemistry, which I found...

You didn't have problems with stains?

OK, I put some CYA in two socks and put them in the skimmer…I'll have to add more later, though, because what is in there is taking up all of the room in the skimmer. I added chlorine but it turned the water brown. The water is from our well, but I'm kinda surprised because the test results...

The pH is up to about 7.5 after a box of borax. The water is a little cloudy still. I didn't put any chlorine yet because I was waiting to balance it. I bought less borax than the calculator suggested I would need, so I'm going to get another box at the store just in case. You think it's OK to...

It took me days to fill, and then the water sat through two days of no power (hence no filling) due to the derecho that went through Jersey. I skimmed the leaves and bugs out, and I've been running the filter since last night around 5 pm.

The water looks ok (a little cloudy due to the baking soda, I think), but it's a new fill…shouldn't I shock it?

OK, I'll get the Mule Team hitched up and ready to go. Do you think it's better to go with dichlor or just do liquid to shock and then a sock of CYA?

I added baking soda at about 8:15 this morning, and as of 9:25, the TA was at 50, just as The calculator predicted. Should I get it to 70 before I start adjusting the Ph?

OK, thanks; the link to the extended directions was helpful. After adding the two initial reagents, the sample turns pink. That means I need to raise the alkalinity first. I'll shoot for that and repost. Thanks again!

Hi everyone, I'm topping just about filling up our new pool and thought I'd put up a post to see if I'm headed in the right direction. I've been doing a lot of reading here this summer and you have all been illuminating! Using the TF100: FC = 0 Ph = below 6.8 TA = …the test kit instructions...