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I have never had an algae problem like I have had this summer. I finally killed the algae but now I need to vacuum up the dead stuff. I don't know anything about manual pool vacuums so I've been looking on Amazon. There are suction side and pressure side vacuums and don't know which one to get...

I read that in order to kill algae you have to put in enough chlorine to bring the FC up to 30 - 50 ppm. I put in 9 gallons of Home Depot's 10% chlorine and that only brought it up to 15 ppm. So I went to Pinch a Penny and got 5 gallons of of their 12% chlorine and that pushed it over the edge...

I recently replaced the grey plastic basket in my pool pump (Hayward) with a white plastic no-name basket that floats. I used to just drop the basket in after cleaning and it sank to the bottom and seated so I knew it lined up with the infloe and could easily screw the pump top back on. When I...

I noticed a few months ago that Kroger's bleach had jumped to $3.49 for the 121 oz. container and they didn't put the % of Sodium Hypochlorite on the label so I started looking around. The almost $5 a container of Clorox 121 oz. was only 6% SH everywhere. I found the liquid chlorine at Home...

I have never done the OCLT before but that sounds like a great way to find out what is causing the problem. Thanks so much for your help! Happy new year.

I put in a brand new filter a couple of days ago and the Phos Free about 2 weeks ago. I don't see any algae, my water is clear and blue. When the pressure went up I thought my 2 year old filter was getting clogged so I took it out, sprayed it with filter cleaner and used my high pressure nozzle...

I keep the FC usually between 5 and 8 and add several bottles of grocery store chlorine 8.25 % each week unless I see some algae then I add more until it clears up. The CYA is usually between 20 and 40. Several years ago the CYA level was way over 100 and the algae was hard to control but a leak...

Yes, it goes to zero.

Hi and thanks for the quick reply. I live in Allen TX north of Dallas. My pool size is 15,000, and I use the Taylor K-2006 test kit. I tested the water a few days ago after adding liquid chlorine to shock it after it had rained pretty hard for several days. The chlorine at that point was 10 ppm...

Last week the pressure on my filter was high so I changed out the filter for a new one and the problem was solved. Today I checked the pump and it's high again. If it's the filter, I can't clean it until the weekend with our temps in the 20s all week. I'm wondering what will happen if I take the...

Me too. I'm using Firefox and just tried IE but I still get the 404.