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The paint blistered into small bubbles 1 month after painting. About 1 year after some of them got bigger and popped. Now about 75% of the pool has small blisters, of which maybe 15% of them have popped. I think my guy was painting in the middle of the hottest days despite me telling him not to...

So weird things have been happening to my pool. pH: 7.6 Alk: 40 CYA: no longer existent CH: 1000 I know these numbers aren't the greatest, but again, perspective living in Africa with no access to affordable liquid chlorine and only granulated cal hypo (which everyone uses in this country as...

Also plaster is not an option here in this country, no one has access to the material. It's only painted concrete or tiling. Tiling was out of our budget at the time.

Thanks for all the responses. It's possible to get a SWG here, and yes that might be a better long term solution. I can get trichlor but I use that every few months to get both chlorination and stabilizer up at the same time.

I did change the ph to 7.1 and it helped quite a lot, but still not as clear as I'd like it to be.

Scaling doesn't seem to be bad, then again I have white pool paint ... there are areas where the paint looks a bit crusty and almost light brown. which could be some scaling, not quite sure. Near the tile line it's also white too. Another weird thing is that when I use my DPD powder in the...

Hi all. Struggling with a pool that is constantly cloudy but has proper color (blue). Readings: ph: 7.4 fc: 5.5 cc: <0.5 ch: 1025 TA: 50 cya: 30 Located in Rwanda, I've always used sodium hypochlorite 65 as my primary chlorination source as well as for slamming the pool. Liquid chlorine not...

Bubbles range in size from 1/4 inch to max 3/4 inch or so. My guy said he would try a different imported paint so we may do so but honestly wait another year since we haven't seen him try it on another pool.. we were the guinea pig for his first project in this country though he has other...

Thanks for the questions. I test using the taylor k2006 kit. Overall TA would be more like 40 since there is 30 CYA (33% is -10 to the overall TA). I do add water, usually once every week to two weeks during this dry spell. Usually it is pretty wet here the rest of the year, humidity averages...

Hi all, I tested my pool this morning: ph: 8 FC: 5 CC: 0 CYA: 30 CH: 825ppm ALK: 50 Temp: 21C Here we have had a very dry season, basically no rain in the last 2 months with 45% humidity, maybe even less at times. Pool has slowly become more cloudy and slightly turquoise in shade. Did a OLCT...

Yeah, the hose fits directly into the skimmer port without the plate thus bypassing the skimmer basket. I want to use the skimmer basket as a prefilter for vacuuming so we don't need to keep clearing the pump filter...

Hi everyone. I have a typical blue pool hose that is a 1.5inch , but my skimmer plate is 1.25inch. I can't seem to find the proper type of step down adapter... you'd think it was simple but I can't find it. Here are some photos. Any ideas? A 90 degree one would be perfect but those have threads...

Thanks for all the advice everyone. The pool finish is simply acrylic paint. Doesn't hold up well at all, it bubbled 2 months after being painted on. 1 year in and bubbles are everywhere, mainly near the skimline tile, and now they are popping and I can sometimes push them and see a not so...

It's been a year since we installed our pool, and though our contractor told us that the pool has a slight grade sloping away from our house, it seems very likely that during strong torrential rainfalls (happens here alot) the water from the grass is going back into the pool. The ground was...

Hello all, I currently run my 600W 0.7HP sand filter in my 15,000 gal inground pool for 5 hours a day. When it rains or when it's really sunny sometimes the pool goes a bit cloudy and a bit green. All my FC, CH, CYA are at good levels. I usually run my pump for 4 hours in the day (11am-3pm) and...

Didn't get a chance to do a OCLT yesterday. But the pool has remained a reasonably clear teal green shade. It monsooned here for 20 minutes yesterday, and again it's raining a bit this week. Does anyone have any problem of pool paint that bubbles and then pops a bit but remains on the pool...

I understand all the slam criteria and have done so multiple times (on average I seem to get about 6 weeks of crystal clear pool and keeping my FC at the right value, never allowing it to drop below the minimum). It just seems that I need to slam more often than I'd like to. If I were following...

Hi all. Weather is calling for rain every day with thunderstorms, my pool gained about an inch but it turned dark green (not very cloudy though)- I had just slammed the pool last week and it was beautiful Last night I dosed FC to 5 4:00pm ph: 7.3 CYA: less than 30 - maybe like 20? CH: 825 TA...

For some reference with regards to my testing with little to no CYA January 3 AM ph: 7.4 CC: 0 FC: 12 January 4 AM cc: 0.5 FC 8.5 Jan 5th AM cc: 0.75 FC: 6.5 Jan 5th PM cc: 0.75 FC: 5.5 Jan 6th AM FC: 5.5 cc: 0.75 Just a loss of 1ppm from Jan 5th to Jan 6th. No swimming but a lot of sun...

Well, it's a hit or a miss with chemicals. When they come in, I gobble them up in the bulk. Usually we have acid available but there have been months where there was no acid nor chlorine available. Thankfully it hasn't come to that point. I am going to use my leftover trichlor (1kg) to bump up...

Again, as a disclaimer, I live in Africa and we don't have access to sodium hypochlorite, well at least not good quality stuff. The only pool supply company offers is trichlor powder and cal hypo 65. I've had my pool now for a year. Initially dealt with way too high CYA levels since my crappy...

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Hello everyone, I was away for 4 months from my pool and allowed my guard (I live in Africa) to manage my pool. When I left my CYA levels were around 40-50 and hardness was somewhere around 650. Today I came back, and checked my readings: CH: 925! CYA: under 30 by a long shot, I would gather...

We had a pretty torrential rain fall, gained about 2 inches of water in my pool. It went to a deep green pretty quickly, though clarity was similar to what it looked like before. The pool was around 10ppm on Sunday night but by Tuesday morning it dropped to 5. This is the first real rainfall in...