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I got home the other day to a massive leak at my pump, had 1.5 inches of water in my shed. Basically, the union piece screwed into the pump outlet doesn’t seem to be holding anymore. If you screw it in, at some point it just won’t tighten anymore and will just get loose again. The threads seem...

Thanks a bunch for the detailed response. So I think I'm getting closer to an understanding, still running into some challenges though. So in regards to the above, my one question regards the bromide bank. The product I have has both sodium bromide and dichlor, so can I use it to build up this...

So right when everything was great and I had mastered my pool chemistry... I got a hot tub! And now I'm reading and am more confused than ever. I went to the store to get bromine, the person explained I could get either tabs but then I had to buy a second product to activate, or I could just buy...

Awesome, thanks everyone. I do have a robot so I'll make sure to get it running after the chlorine is in.

My pool equipment had to be disconnected as part of my landscaping project because they're going to relocate them inside the shed. I'm not sure when they're going to be able to come back and take care of it, so meanwhile my pool is getting pretty green. Is it OK to dump bleach in it or will it...

Thanks so much. I kept going and the liner still to return in place and it doesn't look like there are wrinkles, though I'll be able to see better once the pool is cleaner. But I think it's looking good. Thanks so much for the advice.

Pretty much new. The pool was built last fall, we started using it this summer.

So recently we had some landscaping work done and we were going to relocate the pool equipments as part of it. They got disconnected and the contractor could not put them back in place immediately as we were waiting on our shed to be built and we were going to put them back in there. So the pool...

I searched through a bunch of threads about this. I found many, but none that seemed to have the same configuration as I do. Some guys recently came to fix a leak. In the process of searching, they messed with the return jets such that my pool now looks like a wave pool. lol So trying to see how...

We do plan on getting a reel. Guess I’ll take a look at what the options look like in terms of cost.

My pool has stairs that come out to the side to form an L shape. Is it worth buying a wider blanket and cutting it, or should I just get one the size of the main part of the pool and leave the stairs uncovered? Does it make much of a difference as far as heat retention and evaporation goes? I...

Thanks everyone for the answers. I'm going to do my best to keep monitoring, but at least it's looking like a real possibility that I'm losing water in a completely natural way. I just have to keep an eye on it.

I've now learned a new term: "Automtic Pool Water Leveler". My family had a pool when I was young and I've had friends and relatives with pools, how did I go so long without ever hearing of this?

I just keep discovering new things... Auto fill? You just have something that injects a certain amount of water a day or something?

Seriously? So in your case, it's evaporation? Or is it just from splashing? Or both? And how big is your pool? I do see San Diego in your profile and I assume it's consistently hotter than here, though we do get some very warm days in the summer, but that's probably a total of a month or so.

The "has to be done when the pool is not in use" will be the challenging part! We're using it almost every single day these days, which has definitely made it hard for me confirm if it's going down no matter what. I'm sure I'll find a window though. I want to figure this out ASAP because I don't...

It was very hot the last 4 days (90+), but now it would already be the second time I'd be topping it off. It was not quite that hot before and I had to refill within 2 weeks of using it.

This is my first season with a pool. It's a 12' x 24', around 9650 gallons (36500 liters). We had a leak early in the year and they came to find it, there were a few screws missing on the stairs and that was supposedly it. I watched for a few days after and seemed the water level did not go...

If you're able to test often, trust the results and the pool math recommendations. And as was said, with a CYA close to 0 it'll be a lot of bleach and little FC improvement. I just went through that and just kept at it. got my first FC at 3.5 today, which coincides with my CYA having been raised...

Just wanted to post a thank you note. I followed the instructions, got my CYA up and diligently stayed on top of adding liquid chlorine. Today was the first time I got an FC score of 3.5. Still a bit of work to do, but all my values except FC are now in ideal range, just need to get the FC...

OK, still experiencing some trouble. Here’s a summary as short as I can manage. First test I did I had no kit and and wasn’t expecting to receive mine for another couple weeks, so I took a sample to my pool store done my water was getting cloudy. The results showed very low FC, like 0.04 and low...