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I have had a Lamotte ColorQ Pro 9 Plus and a TF100 for 3 years. I test with the TF-100 weekly and the ColorQ every few weeks. Here are some of differences I have noticed. FC - ColorQ always has a much lower value (ex. 5.0 on TF100 and 1.13 on ColorQ. I know what FC was yesterday plus...

I use a big pipe wrench to get mine open.

Ours are white. The blue looks nice, I just have to wonder if the sun will fade the blue steps over the years.

Re: This had to be brought up before but I can't it: Is ther You are not the only one with this problem. I cleaned mine, lubed the o-ring in March at opening. A few days later I needed to open again to clean. No can do. Husband finally got it loosened.

I bought several bottles last year. My stains began to reappear even with keeping Ph 7.2-7.4 with the Aqua Chem. I returned my unopened bottles & went back to the Purple Stuff. My AA treatment this past weekend went well & am using Purple Stuff. I used 1.75lbs AA. I wanted the Aqua Chem to work...

This will be my first AA treatment. Your results look amazing. My liner is starting its 14th year. The staining is a very light dusting but it drives me crazy. I'm mainly trying to get the stains out of the steps since I guess they are permanent. How well do you think they will clean up & do you...

Keep us posted. I am starting an AA treatment when FC drops to .5 - should be within the next 48 hours. Fingers crossed for both of our pools!

Re: Help me choose a correct pool heater...not sure of pool Wow! - This IS our pool. It is a 17 x 33 Oblique, Pacific Liner. Linen is correct as ours is 16,000 bottom of skimmer, closer to 17,000 at the top which is where we keep our water level. We have a Hayward Natural Gas heater (250)...

I was at Garden Ridge over the weekend (Concord NC) and they had a great selection of cushions. Had to get my 6' palm tree for the pool.

I use Aqua Jogger & pool noodles for exercise when the pool is open. I feel so much better when I exercise regularly and I dislike going to gyms so the pool is it!

We do have a heater but it is still bypassed & drained. Until we get out of this freezing 50-60 degree weather there is no use to run the heater. We do have a solar cover but I'm afraid this cold weather will make it brittle. Where is our hot weather??

Last fall I called a large pool installer in Charlotte and posed this same question. Our liner is living on borrowed time, the shallow end getting the worse of the wear. Blame it on that basketball goal. I was thinking maybe get rid of the liner replace it with a hard surface. They did not want...

I have lots of trees & must use a solid safety cover. The mesh I am told would allow my pool to turn green before I open in March.

I'm a season or two from needing a new liner. Current liner is light. I also wonder if you can see blue vs green easily. Or most important, can you see creatures on the bottom?

I have an Interfab Whitewater slide, 13-1/2 yrs old. I like deep slides as small children cannot lean over the edge & fall out. The BYOS 2 is deeper than mine so no problem there. We have had to patch ours twice. Patch #1 is at the top of the slide where the ride starts. Kids/adults get to the...

That's a nice clock. I guess it is the time of the year to search for those clearance items.

and I did turn the super chlorinate on. Just to make me feel better.

FC - 6.5 CC - 0 PH - 7.5 TA - 80 CH - 250 CYA - 75 Salt - 3800 Temp - 84 Weather - It's coming So I open the skimmer lid with the tool this evening. There is a long thing, looks white. Oh dear, it's the belly of a snake! Run to get husband. He concludes it is dead. This can't be true, they are...

I have had that same brown deck box from Sam's for a few years. It stays outside & still looks new. We went with the fiber optic light(2) in our pool. We can never just run the color-wheel because it lights up the pool algae green. I can't stand my pool to glow green, if only for a few seconds...

Wow! Picture 1 & Picture 2 are certainly night & day. That sparkling oasis proudly shows your hard work.

Re: Will FC levels of 6-8 fade liner? Pool store experience For 12 years I have maintained a CYA of 75-80 and a FC of 6-8. My liner looks great. I have only slight fading on a section of border that is in full sun.

That is a beautiful pool! I do agree with msumoose, I wish our pump wasn't in our main area. At least it is a variable speed & can be turned down during tv watching. Enjoy your pool.

We also have a 'rock' in the deep end on the lower end of the slanted wall. I believe it is a piece of the perlite that has chipped off. This is going to take about an 8" round patch. I am getting more concerned about what happens to th perite base when we finally replace this liner. Do they get...

I am located in Newton NC. I close my pool only because of massive amounts of leaves. It does not get cold enough here to cause any freezing problems. It may not be warm enough to swim in the winter but our temps are still too warm to keep our pool closed all winter.

I second the SpeedStir motion, I even use it with taylor's 1766 salt kit. This makes mixing accurate & fun.

Re: Dead bird in the skimmer - time to shock I'm with samiguy, if shocked every time I had dead critters, I would shock everyday. If you are having company soon, empty the smelly skimmer on the other side of your property.

Wow! Your design & building is amazing! Your pool area should be on the cover of a magazine.

I have had over the years, birds, a crawdad, a copperhead, a baby rabbit, a turtle, many mice, few chipmonks, spiders big & small, sweat bees by the thousands & other bees/wasps, frogs big & small - several every single day, lizards and many unidentified scary bugs. Squirrels drink from the deep...

That's very classy. It shows you carefully planned until your masterpiece was perfected.