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Hi everyone! My 8 year old irobot mira auto pool vacuum died this afternoon. No sign of it working again. Have tried to salvage it but wasn't able to fix it. Is there any one robot vacuum that's much better than the rest? Pool is a 40k gallon in ground pool with 10 foot deep end. I was super...

Ehh, I can see why, this amount of work is pretty unrealistic. Imagine having multiple properties. How do hotels do it? Just keep chlorine higher than recommended? My free chlorine drops about 1.5 per 24 hour period. I dont think I have a ton of algae eating up my chlorine.

I am on day 14, Still see tiny amounts just in one section of the pool. Have been keeping the chlorine at or above the SLAM protocol, overnight chlorine loss is 0.5 and 0 CC. Man, i am over this. How would a pool man or pool company have done this? There's no way anyone would be doing what I am...

Awesome! Thank you so much for taking the time clarifying that! I'm going to try to keep the levels above the minimum with the target being 10.5. Ideally I only have to tend to the pool 2x a week, as I've been unrealistically dedicating a lot of time to the slam process. Everything else has been...

I see. I had actually drained about 80% of the water and refilled. The cya when I acquired the pool was in the 2 or 300s. Should have drained the entire thing, oh well hindsight is 20/20. I'll refrain from ever using tablets and I'm hoping to see the cya slowly decrease from splash outs and...

I was wondering about the mustard FC min column, the 10.5. What is that for?

Thanks for that. How long should I maintain the 10.5?

Ahh sounds good will add it to the signature. It's a large oval pool built in the 1950s. I have the pump running for about 19 hours a day, calculated it to pump 40k gallons per day. I have an irobot mira auto vacuum and then I usually manually vacuum once a week, but during the slam, daily. I...

Ahh will do! Have a variable speed pentair pump, 1 skimmer, 1 main drain, and 2 returns. Its an old pool. It has a 60 size DE filter, no water features, no odd shapes, just a super deep, 12 foot deep end. Wish I could fill the pool and make it all 4 feet or something, 40,000 gallons is hard to...

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Ahh great! Glad to know its a fair price. I checked my free chlorine yesterday pm and it was 51. I will let it drift down to 28, try to sustain it closer to 28 until I can't see any more of this algae, then I will raise it up to 60 per the Mustard algae shock protocol. I will then take apart...

Thanks for all the feedback. I'm certain it's mustard algae it's responding to the shock and reaccumulating very quickly. It is strange that my chlorine drop test was only 1ppm overnight, I'm just struggling getting the last bits of the algae gone for good. It's been very challenging as it is...

What is the benefit of adding and checked 3 or 4 times a day as opposed to having the levels higher than the slam FC such that by the end of the day the level doesn't drop below 28. There's only so much I can do working a 70hr week job.

I had the water tested 3 times and it showed cya of 65 each time. The kit also shows roughly near 70. How many days does it typically take? I feel like 7 days is a long time. I can let the levels dip down to 28, but when I do so, the algae starts growing faster. Testing chlorine once per day.

New to the pool world, and working on maintaining my in ground, 40,000 gallon plaster pool!

Hi everyone, Would like to introduce myself as this is my first post on TFP ( long time reader and follower). I purchased a home with a 40,000 gallon plaster in ground pool about 1 year ago. This is my first time owning and taking care of a pool, and thanks to this website I have done a lot of...