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Yeah, when I said "order a 5-in-one", what I really meant was "I'm about to go order the test kit that you guys suggest but I can't remember what it's called right now", which would be the TF-100. The TF-100 is put together by TFP, right? As in if I order it instead of, say, a Taylor kit I'll be...

Yeah, I suppose you're right, as at very first I used some "shock" but I'll bet it's not THAT much because that chlorine really goes away FAST as soon as I take the cover off. With the cover on all day, the chlorine barely drops. I've got some of those tabs but all I use to chlorinate now is...

Okay, well I think I have my answer. :) First off, my testing kit only does 4 tests- Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine, pH and total Alkalinity. After I write this, I'm probably going to go order a 5-in-one kit. Silly me to think that the local pool store's best test kit wouldn't be 5-in-one. Here...

That's weird about getting good flow when switching to recirculate- I would think that would imply that the problem is somewhere in the sand filter as well. However, as you said, I would also think that would show itself in the pressure. I looked your specific pump up out of curiosity and I did...

Haha, I knew the first thing said would be "got some test results?" I'll go do a test now, but off the top of my head my last test (done at the end of the day before adding the day's bleach) was: Free Chlorine is at 2-ish No Combined Chlorine pH 7.8 ish Total Alk I don't remember what it is at...

Basically I've got my pool water where I want it and after daily testing for a while all I have needed to do is add maybe 3 cups of bleach daily to keep the free chlorine levels where I want them. I have some CYA, but I don't want to use it if I don't have to (less things added to the pool, the...

Hey there- I have a Coleman (Intex) 18' pool that came with a pathetically usless cartridge filter and after reading a bunch on this site, I decided that I needed to get a sand filtration system. I ended up getting the intex 2800GPH, which is basically the same thing as yours (with more GPH...