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    New hot tub and lost on chemicals

    So I have a 250G hot tub and figured it would be easy to learn the ins and outs of the chemical situation having cut my teeth on a new pool earlier this year. Well I guess I was wrong. I first tried bleach as chlorine and I would add a few oz to hit my 3ppm target but it was not showing any FC...
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    First time dealing with green algae

    Hi all, I got this pool at the beginning of the summer and all went great until a few weeks ago. What started as a load of sawdust from neighboring construction has turned into a green algae bloom and I admit I don’t know what I’m doing. I was nearly out of the woods and then my SWG wasn’t...
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    Chlorine puck stain on Vinyl AG pool liner

    Chlorine pucks dropped in new Intex UltraFrame pool for a few minutes, now there are yellow/bleached stains. I presume this is a chemical stain which is not removable?
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    Newbie on SWCG - help!

    Just set up an Intex 12x24 pool over the weekend, adding 200# of salt which should put me at about 2900 ppm and then turned on my Intex SWCG for 5 hours per day. So it's run about 10 hours total so far. Direct full day sunlight. I have not added any Cyanuric acid yet, it's in the mail and...
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    Finishing install of Intex XTR on clay soil - issues with sinking - can you jack it up?

    I finished install of a 12x24 XTR frame pool over the weekend. We were happy with the level, used 1/2" foam mats underneath and 1" thick 12x12 pavers under the feet. We did encounter a few issues regardless. Before we cover the feet (pool is at ground level on one side, now cut into slope so...