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We had very high ta for quite a while and brought it down using acid. However now our numbers are showing no ta (test didnt even turn green todsy! It was RED) and no pH and basically no chlorine as of this morning. While the pool looks crystal clear I am very concerned about what it's happening...

We have a fairly small pool so it doesn't take too much to clean it however using the standard pole and this sort of vacuum head isn't cutting it anymore. http://cdn.lesliespool.com/wimages/product_image/lpm-20883-009.jpg?300x300 My teenagers swimming around the bottom with the hose seems to be...

Hello, I'm truly desperate for help. My pool is a mess and I'm due for a ton of company for a graduation party this weekend! Would you please kindly help me? A little background: So, we used food grade citric acid to clear some staining from the walls of our fiberglass pool and left our pump to...

My pool numbers aren't balancing like they normally do. I have these numbers from yesterday- Cl- .5 pH- 6.8 FC- 1 CC- 1 TC- 2 TA- 70 CH- 80 CYA- 20 I added 5 lbs of Food Grade Citric Acid to rid of the staining yesterday and the walls are white again. But I haven't added the sequester yet. I...

I ordered the salt water test kit and when it arrived yesterday we immediately tested twice. The outcome has confused us. When we add the first drops(chromate) to the water sample as directed-it turned yellow like we read should happen. However, when we added the silver nitrate to the sample- it...

Hello TFP! We are just getting our fiberglass pool going this year and have let of all chemical levels just drop completely. We ran our pump all winter often and keep the pool fairly clean but have turned the SWG off and need to treat for some faint staining. Tested the water yesterday- our...

Hello, We had some staining on our approx. 11, 300 gallon fiberglass pool. I used the vit C to check and sure enough it cleared up the areas I dropped the tablets very well. So, some sort of metal staining was taking place. This is our second year with the pool. We didn't have staining last...

Hello! We had a small fiberglass inground pool installed last summer. They poured a two foot concrete coping around the pool at install and beyond that it is just sand and weeds. The coping that the concrete company poured was supposed to be colored and now looks pink. :x So, I have to try to...

Hello-This shocking thing is not going as easily as I hoped. So I added a two jugs of 6% bleach(182 oz) to my pool two nights ago(Friday) and ran my pump on high in hopes of killing possible algae. It reoccured, only maybe a bit less by morning and I brushed it and ran the pump all day...

What does algae look like? Would I know I have it? I have some brownish looking "stuff" on my pool bottom and usually just have a thin line of sand along both sides if we have anything brown in color. (we still need to do landscaping around the pool so we are surrounded by sand and the kids/dog...

Hi, So when doing the TA test with the test kit it seems that my color switched to pink, not red as the directions suggest. Should I stop adding regent at the bright pink color and call that red? Mine doesn't seem to ever get to red. I was at 30 drops the other day- today I'm at 14 drops and...

Hi, I'm not sure how to get my pool numbers correct. I have borax and baking soda on hand and wondered if I should use them. I need to re-read the pool school because my brain is mush and none of this is making sense right now. Here is what I have: I tested using the T100 kit. I added a...

Hello, Can anyone please tell me if there is a way to turn off my main drains entirely? I know I can switch the handle up by the pump to off but the main drains still have water that comes out of them into the pipes that are nearby. I need to fix a problem with the PVC pipes very close to the...

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The company we want to use for our fiberglass pool uses Advantage Products? Until we visited them, we had never heard about that brand. They want to install them early this week. Many of the other companies we talked to use Hayward or Pentair pumps and filters but not this company. We are also...

Has anyone heard of Caribbean Bay Pools? They are a company who makes fiberglass pools in Honduras and ships them into a port in NC. Seems somewhat sketchy to me. Wondering about the quality? And the company itself? Supposedly they are comparable to Viking and Barrier Reef pools but there is...

So after interviewing several pool companies in town, we are now actually considering getting a fiberglass pool instead of the vinyl liner pool we started looking for a month ago. Is there any problem putting a fiberglass pool so close to the house footings? Our permit issuing dept here in town...

We plan on building an inground pool- 16 x 28' vinyl liner style- with salt system, I believe. The work should start in the next few weeks. We were offered the choice of cake style stairs that would have the liner run over them or entry stairs from a side. What would you recommend? We don't...

Hello, We are just in the early stages of hiring a company to install an IG liner pool. Still making decisions and trying to work out all the details. Hope that someone here without bias can help us. The local pool companies all bash one another and all think their particular product is best. It...

Hi, we are looking to install an IG 16 x 28' liner pool. I am new to all this so please bear with me. We are looking at a (Pacific) Regatta pool although places in our area also install Fort Wayne IG liner pools as well and that would be another option. It will be surrounded by cement on all...