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Some guy in New Jersey was flying his drone that dropped green dye packs into pools in New Jersey. Looks like they just caught him, thankfully. Ugh. Here's a version of the story.

I see on the news that Hurricane Idalia is making its way toward the west coast of Floridia. Might hit landfall at Category 3. Here's a copy and paste from an older thread on suggestions for pool preparations. Precautions and Procedures During Heavy Floods When the rain is coming down...

My Intex skimmer basket has very wide holes. We don't really get big floating leaves in our little pool, mainly grass and finer material which slips right through the basket and into the sand filter. I want to line the skimmer basket with a nylon net, but I'm unsure of the right mesh size to...

I'm new to pools, but the TFP method is going great so far! The typical numbers for my above ground 3800 gal (aww so cute!) vinyl pool are: pH 7.2 when cover has been on for a while pH 7.6 at the end of the day if there has been some splashing by the kids. The bubble solar cover goes on pretty...

Hello. I can't seem to get my PoolMath log to automatically attach itself to my forum profile. I'm logging in to PoolMath using the same username I'm posting from here. In the app options, I've selected "Link from TroubleFreePool.com user profile." Is there another setting I need to adjust? I...

I wanted to bump up my calcium by about 80 or 100 ppm. I did so late at night, several hours after topping off the chlorine to 6 ppm. In the morning the FC was essentially 0 ppm. I added enough liquid chlorine to bring it back up to 6 ppm, then a few hours later it was around 1 ppm. Finally...

Hi there. In PoolMath I’m selecting Filter Pressure as one of the items I’d like to track for my pool. But filter pressure does not show up on the items that can be logged. When I select temperature, temperature does show up, so I think there’s something special about pressure. Is this a bug...

Hi all. This year we have set up a brand new 3800 above-ground vinyl pool for the kids. The previous year we had a 1000 gal and I didn't do too much maintenance other than throwing in a couple of Frog chlorine floating balls when the strips said low chlorine as well as cleaning the cartridge...