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Bought the place as a foreclosure 10 years ago, pool came with it. 3-ish to 8 feet deep, 16x32 feet, roughly 20 - 24k gallons I believe. County permit listing says it went in June of 1997 at a cost of $17800, gunite shell with quartz finish, pretty normal for this area. Planned on resurfacing...

Is this fake or am I being paranoid? Sorry for the massive pictures but I felt it was important to show detail. Bought this valve off Amazon for about $60 to replace a 20+ year old similar valve where the grease fitting broke off and water is dripping out. The body is heavy and feels "right"...

Over the winter each year my CYA level drops from normal levels to zero. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? It's not a huge deal to re-CYA once a year, but I dumped almost 20 gallons of 10.5% in the past 2 weeks before I remembered the winter CYA disappearance issue.

I don't know if I have a special kind of colorblindness or what, but I have a really tough time distinguishing between the colors on the borate and the PH tests. I can tell the difference between the two furthest extremes, but I cannot see the difference between close together colors, they look...

I finally got a real test kit last week, and I am starting to get things under control. Had some algae to clear up, kept FC up around 27 for a few days until I passed the OCLT which was overnight last Thursday night. Thursday night FC was 27, Friday morning before dawn FC was 26.5. Friday...

Background: Bought house 2 years ago. Blindly chlorinated with pucks and powdered shock the first year and used the test strips (I know, I know). Massive rain storm in June of 2012, turned the pool green. Switched to using liquid chlorine at that time on advice of local pool store. Still...

Greetings! I purchased a home here in sunny Sanford, Florida two years ago in 2011. It had been foreclosed and was a serious fixer-upper. There is a screened in rectangular pool in the back that is about 4 feet deep in the shallow end and 8 feet deep in the deep end, in ground, gunite, around...

Greetings! I purchased a home here in sunny Sanford, Florida two years ago in 2011. It had been foreclosed and was a serious fixer-upper. There is a screened in rectangular pool in the back that is about 4 feet deep in the shallow end and 8 feet deep in the deep end, in ground, gunite, around...

Greetings! I purchased a home here in sunny Sanford, Florida two years ago in 2011. It had been foreclosed and was a serious fixer-upper. There is a screened in rectangular pool in the back that is about 4 feet deep in the shallow end and 8 feet deep in the deep end, in ground, gunite, around...