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After accidentally draining half the water mid-winter, I refilled the pool, vacuumed to waste, and added dichlor shock, because it's what we had and I knew it would need more CYA. The water went from pond green to a lovely light blue, but there's a whitish cloudiness to the water. I haven't...

We had a major wrinkle in our vinyl liner over the winter, so we drained the 27,000 gallon pool to about 1/3 of the way down into the diving well. Now that the liner is fixed and the water level is back up (after four straight days with a garden hose), I have tested the water. It has a fair...

This is my second season with TFP. Last year we bought a house with a neglected pool. Being totally frustrated by the ineffective and very expensive pool store suggestions, and becoming disgusted by the chemical soup we were concocting in our pool, I desperately began searching for help after...

Is there a printable chart somewhere that tells the increase of FC levels based on how much bleach you add? Perhaps I am lazy, but it's a long way out to the pool, and I have to walk back in to plug my numbers into the Pool Calculator, and go back out to add bleach. I have a dumb phone, so I...

I am in the process of shocking my pool for the second time. Either I didn't complete the process the first time, although I thought it had met the three criteria, or I didn't understand and maintain the appropriate level of chlorine for my low CYA level after shocking. I have gotten better at...

We bought the house with a pool that had been neglected since last August. The pool was a dark green frog swamp, home to over thirty frogs and innumerable tadpoles, and looked as thick as pea soup, but darker green. We started in early May with the pool store recommendations, which turned out...