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Hello, thank you for taking the time to help. i'm aware of the slam process. I've had to do it once before. If i'm correct, if you don't remove all the algae, it can continue to survive in the pool. I guess my concern is that. If the algae is stuck to the calcium build up, or if its under the...

Hello I have scale build up . Hard water , also didn’t check my ph for a long time. It was 8+ over the marker I’m just starting to get my ph down to 7.2. Had it there about 3 weeks now. Keeps going up fast , I think because of algae . I’ve trying scrubbing and scrubbing. Some comes off but not...

Hello all, I’m having a little problem. My pool was not really monitored for like 8 months. This is 2nd summer having pool . My ph was over the 8 limit mark and my vinyl pool got like sand paper. I’m in the process in getting my pool ready to slam. Possibly yellow algae. My concern is the...

@Newdude thanks for everything. I really didn’t want to go to leslies today but I wanted to get cya started since it’s my day off. I’m going with this powder version. I should be good right ? I don’t want leslies doing any funny business lol just did a cya test and it’s looking like I have zero...

Yes correct salt water generator was off. I’ll be adding CYA tomorrow. thank you. I’ll for sure be keeping a closer eye on my FC thank you

@Newdude I have some great news. I passed OCLT only lost 1 ppm of FC over night. I think my issue came from a dirty filter and not vacuuming in the evening. When can I go back to doing my normal test. Should I wait to chlorine levels are down to 1-4 ppm ? I really think I’m lacking CYA...

Sorry that was just the picture I took to show what part I had. I did have it flush with top rail. Even when flush and tightened correctly, the floater will swing up as if the bolt don’t tighten enough.

Hello all, I’m having a issue getting this skimmer to stay in place. I think it’s made for Intex and I have a best way pool. Does anyone have any ideas. It has cheap plastic screws and I think the skimmer part where it cups around the pool may be too big. So when I turn on pump the skimmer will...

@Newdude hi thanks for getting back to me. I’m so confused haha. This morning is had FC of 6ppm ive test twice since then and it went to 4 ppm and now 1.5 ppm of FC. I’m guessing because it’s the 90 degree weather. Maybe my CYA is low ? When I tested it before slam it was about 20-30...

@Newdude I think I’m gaining some traction here. I deep cleaned out the filter and only lost 1.5 ppm of fc over night. I didn’t vacuum , so I’m hoping that’s part of the problem. I’m going to attempt to vacuum that same night I do a over night test. I was wondering. Does anyone know if keeping...

@Newdude Hi 👋 I have not been able to pass the over night test - not dropping my chlorine levels overnight Overnight it drops sometimes 1-4 ppm In a whole day it will drop 10 ppm My pool is crystal clean; I’ve backwashed a couple times, I keep sweeping and vacuuming pool has been running...

@Newdude I can’t thank you enough: it blows my mind that You don’t even know me and you’re helping me as much as you are. I love this community. My pool is looking really good. So good I’m ready to jump in it. I wanted to ask you though . My chlorine test levels keep falling. Even though my...

Hi @Newdude h it going I was wondering what I can do if I need to be gone for 10 hours yesterday my ppm was averaging 12 everytime I checked. Last night it didn’t change much in 3 hours. Only dropped .5 ppm and was at 15.5 However this morning 8 hours later it was down to 10.5 ppm I need to...

@Newdude hello, i started the slam process again. I did a second test to check the ph and it was about 7.9-8.0 this time. I didn't have to add as much to bring down the ph since i already had added some sodium bisulfate. I tested alkalinity this time and it was higher, from yesterday it went...

@Newdude sorry that is what I meant. I'm going to go ahead and slam away. Its obvious algae. On the charts and calculator its saying i should bring chlorine up to 16-24 ppm (if yellow algae) . Does this sound correct to you? Just want to make sure. Thank you. Also is it hard for it to come back...

Haha, this is great. Thank you for the useful information. I’m going to take the advice from TFP instead. I’m pretty sure I’m dealing with some algae. It’s safe to say I should do the slam process :) I’ll research this now. Thank you @Newdude thanks for having faith in me that I would have a...