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How does the order reflect what test kit was used? Just curious.... VWbusguy - Yes, I replaced water to lower the CYA. Donldson - Our sand was 8+ years old and original with our filter, so I thought from what I have read here that we should replace it even if that wasn't the source of our...

So no one can help me because I listed my numbers in the incorrect order? LOL

Like I said above, I bought the TFTest Kit - got the refill set a few weeks ago. Are you suggesting my kit might be the problem?? I posted results above - what number are you wondering about that isn't in my post from earlier today?

Not crystal clear - can only see about a foot down. How do I post a pic? I keep buying pool store potions because I am trying everything I can think of and still am not making any progress a month later..... I bought the kit from TFTest Kits - even ordered a new one to make sure old testing...

pH 7.4 CYA 50 Alk 90 CL 15 CC 1 Been this way for a week (usually higher chlorine level though), but pool is still a pretty green opaque color. Any suggestions? We have tried 3 kinds of clarifiers. Can see about a foot down in the water now. I can't get a pic to post - any suggestions? I...

THanks for the tips - and especially where to find washing soda. Maybe we have that somewhere in our small town after all!

Calculator says 94 oz of Borax to raise pH to 7.5 as I read it. That seems like a lot.....? Add it all at once or a little bit at a time and test it periodically? My pH was very high a week ago and I added less that the amount of muriatic acid the calculator recommended (because it seemed...

I have Borax at home but will have to travel out of town this weekend to get soda ash. Any thoughts as to how much to add of the BOrax to at least get the process started until I can get some soda ash? And where do I buy that other than the pool store? THanks!

Alk is 60 pH is 7.0 thanks

Okay, got my new test kit today and here are the results: Alk 60 CYA 100 FC 7 CC .5 pH 7.0 I'm so mad! The only thing I asked the pool store to test a month ago was the CYA and they told me it was almost none and I needed to add 5 lbs. of stabilizer. That seemed illogical to me since it was...

Shoot - the only thing I haven't been testing myself is the CYA bc I ran out of the testing stuff end of last year, so I went to the pool store for just a CYA reading and they told me my CYA was 10 which seemed crazy bc it was 40 when we closed the pool and we didnt add much water. So I added a...

Hmmmm - PAGirl, we just went by the number of pounds of sand the filter called for on the side and the number of pounds per bag. How high should the sand be in the filter?

See attached pictures (I hope they are attached) We can only see down in the water a couple inches. pH is fine, alkalinity is a little low but not much, CYA is at 40, and we have been keeping it at shock level for weeks. It will hold its chlorine level overnight and I have run the vacuum for...

I am an attorney and manage our rental properties - hubby is a congressional aide and runs our beef and grain farm operation. This is an interesting thread ~ fun to hear what varied backgrounds we come from!

I have an area next to the base of our deck where we have small stones. I break the hose down into 3 long strips and lay them out straight on the stones. Works well - in the past, I was not careful and sure enough, the hose became coiled and we ended up having to buy a new one this spring, so...

@cbrothers19 Swiss Valley Fence in Sugarcreek, Ohio. We love them. You can have them up like a half table as in the pic or you can tilt the table part down to make a bench with a back, and we can also put the 2 sides together to make full, very large picnic table. We have 5 kids, and there...

About 3 or 4 summers ago, all of a sudden one evening, our pool was just crazy-loud with tree frogs. Never noticed them before that, but now, for most of the summer, it is so loud around our pool in the evening, it is sometimes hard to have a conversation! One night last summer, the kids went...

Okay - hopefully I did this right with the pictures. When the kids were very small, we only felt comfortable having a deck on the opposite side of the pool furthest from the house, so no risk of someone toddling out and falling into the pool. Then when they were a little bit older, we built...

I will try and get pic uploaded later. We have a 27 footer off the house that was built when the kids were very small so has a little gated area that have worked quite well for us. I will try to figure out how to get pics from phone onto here.

Okay (taking deep breath....). It is not surprising that there is NO visible improvement? I just want to make sure, because I look at the pool and see no improvement at all. Five kids are very anxious to get in that darn pool, so I want to make sure I am headed in the right direction.

Okay - I am ready to cry over all this....still no progress on the cloudiness. Shouldn't I be seeing some improvement by now after a few days of shock level holding, good test results, and running the filter 24/7?? I am considering going to the <gasp!> pool store and try something different...

I haven't purchased pool supplies online before, so looking for recommendations for good places to order from with reasonable prices. Thanks!

Another question: so I have been just running the filter 24/7, keeping chlorine levels high. TOnight, the pressure on the filter had increased quite a bit so I backwashed. WHen all the algae is dead and I have milky color pool water in the past, the backwash water is just a milky white color...

Good morning! Okay, here are my crazy results: I raised chlorine level to 21 last night before going to bed (.5 cc) and this morning, both numbers are exactly the same. Filter ran all night, but absolutely no progress at all as far as clearing the milkiness. Is it just too soon to expect a...

Like I mentioned above, the pressure has not been increasing like I would expect considering how cloudy the water is. Until today, I hadn't backwashed in probably pushing 6 days or so. Update: hubby and I and the kids got the bags of sand out and stirred up a swamp in the recesses of the...

nope - they are just bags laying under there. Well, I guess it is good that I may have found the problem! Now to get the kids in there to help get them out. Not sure what to do with them once they are out, however....? Is is possible that they could make the water cloudy even though my...

Okay, forgive me, but I have one last question....hubby doesn't particularly want to take the filter apart and suggested another possible issue and I thought I would run it by you pool experts to see if you think this is even possibly my problem. Last year, we put in what I think are called...