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Thanks for the reply. When I use the laser level do I do it from the water level or the wall? I'm hoping my eyes are just deceiving me. Should I wait until the cover is off to get a better reading? Thanks for your help!

I noticed this summer when I swam to one side of my 3 year old above ground pool that it seemed a little deeper. Now that the pool is drained below the skimmer and the winter cover is on and has water on it, I can really notice a difference in the depth between the opposite sides of the round...

Where are you planning on purchasing your Aqua Trol from? I have decided that this is the SWG I'm going to purchase now I have to decide which online site to buy from.

Re: Inspiration Wanted..... Excellent ideas for over the rail! Thanks so much!

Re: Inspiration Wanted..... I think I have looked at almost every photo of a deck everywhere on this forum. They are amazing. However. my husband wants to put our decking over the top rail since it is not rated for standing on. He actually wants to build a set of very wide stairs that cover the...

How low is acceptable for vinyl pools? Mine is at 30. If I need to raise it, what chemical do I need?

If you have a 2 speed pump, should you read the pressure gauge when running the pump on high or low? When mine is on low it reads 1 and on high it reads 10.

Got it! Thanks!

I am getting ready to open the pool, but I am not sure how to open my sand filter in order to fill it and take a look at the sand. I have looked all over the forum and looked at my manual. It says to replace the sand open the filter and then gives other directions. Nothing about how to get the...

Hey dman. Thanks for the pics. What kind of tubing is that attached to your pump and filter?

It does help. Thanks!

Our neighbor's house sits higher than ours and they look straight over our fence into the pool. I am wondering if anyone has suggestions about tress and/or plants that can thrive in pots, grow tall enough to screen, won't drop a bunch of stuff in the pool, and have a tropical feel if possible...

I have been thinking about adding a liquidator to my above ground pool this year and from many of the posts on here I learned that it may be easier to install this if I had pvc piping. Right now I have the flexible tubes that came with the pool when I bought it used from another couple and we...

We have an above ground pool in North Carolina that we are considering leaving open this winter. It has been our first season with a pool. I read through lots of posts and a few people mentioned that the pump needs to be run when the temperature drops below freezing. I also read that there may...

After a whole lot of POP (pool owner patience) the pool is finally sparkling again. I decided not to add anything but bleach. Although the FC never seemed to drop like I would have expected with algae, I guess it must have been. It took two weeks of shocking though to get rid of the green and...

I backwashed on Monday when it was still green. Should I backwash again? The pool looks pretty much like it did yesterday - nuclear blue. Should I continue shocking until I can start seeing the bottom? The pump has been running on high 24/7 for a week now.

When I got home this evening the FC was at 13 and the pool color is a bright blue. I added a picture here http://www.flickr.com/photos/24592291@N ... 292123275/ I added more bleach to come back up to mustard shock level. By the way, the bottom of the pool is actually a dark blue color, not...

Ok, here is an update. The pool is still green. This morning as a gazed out through the pouring rain it appeared to be a little blue-ish greenish. It was hard to tell because of the rain. It should stop raining and I will take an updated picture this afternoon. We kept the pool at green algae...

Last night at 10:45 p.m. the FC was 13.5. This morning at 7:15 a.m. the FC was 11.5. I added enough bleach to bring it back up to 13 and left for work. After I got home, I tested my still green water and the FC was only 9. Any suggestions?

We are quite baffled needless to say. We have no idea how copper might have gotten into the pool if we don't have algae. We have only put bleach in the pool. We do not have a heater, nor has the pH ever fallen below 7.2. I put pH decreaser in yesterday when the pH was 8.2 and brought the pH down...

I hope this works. Here is the link to two photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/24592291@N ... 75/detail/

We have been using the BBB method since we put the pool up and filled it in June. It has seen nothing but bleach, baking soda, stabilizer and pH decreaser (yesterday). We have not added any water ourselves since sometime in July because we have had so much rain. We actually have drained water...

I am using bleach to shock the pool. The pool calculator said for my numbers to bring the FC up to 13. So I did. Here's what has happened so far. 11:30 - FC=12.5 12:00 - FC= 14 12:30 - FC=13.5 1:00 - FC=13.5 2:00 - FC=12 added bleach to bring up to 13 3:00 - FC=12.5 added bleach to bring up to...

Ok, so we lowered the pH successfully yesterday and allowed the pool to adjust overnight. It is still a bright shade of green. Our FC dropped from 4 to 3 in 12 hours. Still no CCs, but we are going to shock and see what happens.

I couldn't believe the pictures I saw on this post and the link to the other post were identical to the stuff we've had at the bottom of our pool for a month. I had read on earlier posts that what I had was probably pollen and I should vacuum it up and check to see if it came back in the exact...

The pool was a little murky and dirty from rain, pollen, etc. and we though vacuuming and filtering would help clear it up. Yesterday it looked a little green and today it looks very green. However, there are no CC whatsoever. The FC doesn't appear to be dropping quickly either. We do have a...

Even when the water level in the pool is just above the return jet we seem to be splashing a lot of water out from the top of the skimmer. We are not concerned with the water loss except for where the water is going. Right now it is settling around the filter and pump even though we have slanted...

I looked back through the box of parts we got when we bought the pool - we bought it from another couple who had to take it down - and I found an O ring that looked just about the right size for the hose that was leaking. Sure enough - leak fixed. We did spew some water though, but the drain...

Ok so the filter now has a new problem. The hose that runs from the filter to the pump has a slow leak at the place where it is connected to the pump. Is there a gasket in there that we might need to replace or something else? My husband tightened it as far as he could. If we do take that hose...

Yes, we have a good flow. We took the most amazing first dip in our new pool. It was fabulous. Now, on to some chemistry! Thanks so much for the help!