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got it, so even though i happened to pass the OCLT one night doesn't mean i've successfully beaten it. i'll continue to monitor and maintain SLAM until i'm confident its been beaten! :D

ok, i'm not sure what i did wrong or if this is just something that can happen.... So the other night when i passed the OCLT i tested FC at 24 at night and then in the morning it was 24.5. I just figured maybe i miss counted 1 drop when i tested the night before on why it went up. I decided to...

i passed my OCLT last night! so hopefully i'm out of the woods now! :)

I'm now 99% convinced mine is dead algae that i've unknowingly been fighting. we were busy for a couple of days so hadn't used the pool, but uncovered it during the day, so it had a lot of time for stuff to settle. This is what it looked like yesterday afternoon @sum1els i copied your idea of...

Uncovered the pool this morning and back to tons of whatever it is on the floor of my pool 😕 seems excessive to just be dirt..... I haven't been able to run an OCLT but plan to do that tonight. I'm assuming if it's algae my FC will drop and if it's dirt it won't.

don't mean to hi-jack your thread but i came here to make a post as i'm having this exact problem, saw your post and figured i'd add to it too. I thought maybe it was a constant algae bloom that was forming and dying so i've been attacking it from that angle. found my phosphates were at least...

thanks for the reply! So far the past 3 years its basically stayed at 7.2 and doesn't change. same with TA being around 120 avg. i know thats considered "high" for a SWG but is in line with the overall range. i don't want to have to constantly put acid in to keep it down but i'm also unsure if...

thanks for the reply! would being covered overnight (roughly 12 hours) each day for 2 days plus 1 day of being covered for 24 hours be enough to drop the PH by .4? (7.6 from when i put the borax in to 7.2 today) Timeline is essentially Saturday - open all day with swimming, put borax in to...

hey all. i'm on my 3rd season of having a pool. been following the TFP method since the start. details of pool are in sig. for the most part things have been going well for me, have had some random incidents of water cloudiness pop up due to trying to strike the right balance of pump run time...

thanks! thats good to know! I asked the pool builder when i talked to him today if there would be any issues storing the liner for several years and he said "no". I was planning on storing it in the basement so it would at least stay temp and humidity controlled. my wife likes the idea of...

Talked to our pool builder today. Latham initially said there was nothing they could do because it wasn't a warranty issue. Pool builder kept talking with them and they let me know today that Latham decided to go ahead and replace the liner for us as a courtesy 😮 they were very adamant that it...

So you are thinking its just "natural" wrinkling thats happening and not an indication of some larger issue like a tear/leak and water getting behind the liner?

Hey all! We are on our 2nd season with our vinyl liner pool. We noticed a few weeks ago that some significant wrinkles had formed on our tanning ledge. We took a picture and sent it to the pool builder, they sent a couple of guys out who had no idea and said they would need to send someone else...

Hey Newdude! thanks for the reply, appreciate it! I'll admit, i didn't make testing a priority until I had an issue :( so will definitely add this as an improvement area for next year to stay on top of testing :) I thought maybe when i did a SLAM with the first round of cloudiness i may not...

hey all! well with school starting up and the wife and kids starting back our pool usage will be limited to mostly weekends for the rest of the season :( I wanted to thank everyone here for the help i received with some issues that came up during our first season with our pool!!!! I do have...

Hey all, I'm having issues with my auto cover stopping before it gets closed all the way. I read online that it's probably a dirty track and so I sprayed that out tonight and while it was better it still stopped like 8 inches short of closed. I also noticed the cable in the picture attached is...

Yep, SWG must be working. We had a storm roll through here today and had some hail damage and so we've been cleaning up from that. Just now got around to uncovering the pool a bit and testing it. FC went up to 13 from 12 earlier this morning. Afaik the only way that would happen is if my SWG was...

Had my wife send me a pic of the IC60. So basically I just miss-calculated on my prior settings so my chlorine generation was too low which allowed some algae to sneak in. So once I get it cleared up again and get my settings adjusted to generate the correct amount of chlorine I should be good...

All lights appear normal, all the ones that should be on are and are green (sorry I'd grab a pic but at work now). I do have automation and prior to this round of cloudiness I had the pump set to run for 14 hours per day and had the IC60 set to 60% output. It's showing my salt levels at around...

Morning! So I tested last night before bed and had 15 FC. This morning woke up and got my sample and tested and FC was 12. So definitely failed the OCLT. I assume next steps for clearing it up is to do another SLAM, so I'll get started on that this weekend, back to the office now so can't do...

Thanks!!!!! I only had 1 gallon of 10% on hand that I dumped in, will need to go to the store to get some more. I'll go grab some more and get at least 2 more gallons in. That should take me up to 13 FC and then I'll check before bed and again in the morning and report back.

Help!!!! My cloudy water is back and I don't know why and/or what I'm doing wrong 😭 after starting this thread and getting everything cleared up it was perfect. Had multiple people over during the 4th of July and everything stayed perfectly clear and levels stayed good (see pool math logs). The...