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Last Tuesday, I took my wife to the ER for illness, and she was admitted later that day, and had to have surgery. Her recovery time is 6-8 weeks. That being said, I have spent the past week with her in the hospital, coming home to change clothes and shower, and maybe take a nap. My two "adult"...

That's a fair enough question, and my reply would be that I'm new? *chuckling* I guess it's because I was used to keeping the pool at such low CL levels prior to TFP methodology, but if you'll give me some liberty, I've jumped into the deep end now and added 1/2 gallon. Logs are updated to...

I tested the water about an hour after adding MA, and the pH had dropped to 7.2-7.4 ish. I'd venture to say 7.3 :) I told my kids to get in and start splashing around, but they're teenagers, so they don't listen to me much ;) My CL was reading 0.5, so I added 16 oz of 10% and then 1 1/2 hours...

I had the same reaction when I did a deep clean of my filter as well yesterday! "HOLY COW" I had so many particulates that were floating in suspension inside of the pool, and figured the filter wasn't working as well as it should. Here's what I was seeing in the pool, and what came out of my...

Tested the water this AM. pH 8.2 FC 0.5 Added 16 oz 10% bleach after testing was done. CC 1.0 TA 220 CH 100 CYA 40 Temp 74°F (nice and cool! :)) Sometimes at the end of the summer, the temp had to be in the low 90's. If I wanted a warm bath, I go to a hot springs lol. If I understand the...

Currently draining the pool, and wanted to share a couple of pictures of what I saw last night while I was doing the slow drain. I figured I might as well get some use of the water, so I filled a kiddie pool that we use to wash the dogs in, drug a hose out to the front and put on a small...

No doubt this is one of the reasons that the water is so cloudy. Deep cleaning my filter showed a lot of this small stuff being removed. Be sure to backwash and deep clean thoroughly!

This is what was coming out of the filter after 3 seasons of use, and never deep cleaning.

Thanks, just did that and it was at 70. What would be the correct way to interpret this? I used the graduated cylinder to measure ~15 ml for the shaker bottle to fill to the bottom of the label, so ~ 7ml tap + 7ml pool water + reagent. Results show 70, so would my CYA be 135 or 170 or 240...

To get into the better habit of checking the levels in the pool, I re-tested everything today, and I believe I made an error in my calculations. I double-checked the results and found that there was an issue with the dropper bottle for R-0012 that was putting out teeny tiny drops of liquid...

@mknauss Thanks for the quick reply. @revitup I can understand how that might have caused some staining. The only issue we have here is that the city pretty much charges double for sewage fees for any water that we use coming out of the tap, whether or not we're using it to cook, irrigate, water...

It might help if you didn't know about how the water cycles through the sand filter and help understand what I think is happening. In normal operation, the water is coming through the top of the variable valve, being pressurized through the sand media, and then through the laterals at the bottom...

Greetings forum members, I found my way here after another member had their pool installed last year, and said that he was using the recommendations here to maintain his pool with good results. Our 4- year old AG vinyl pool was just paid off this month(Yay:)), and we've had good luck over the...

I sometimes get this when I am vacuuming the pool, and then backwash. It's usually an indication that I don't rinse long enough to get the sand back down into the filter, so I rinse until the sight glass is clear, and I don't get as much as I used to when I was a new pool owner. Considering that...

I replaced my cheap gauge that I replaced 2 years ago from the pool store for my Hayward filter last year with a quality one from Grainger. I paid $12.57.