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Thanks all! I'm really freaking out :drown: I just told hubby. He's calmly freaking out and hears $cha-ching. I don't think we will need a full replaster though. Right? Right? ;) LOL

Hello All! I think we have some big trouble :( with the plaster and gunite. This is about 2-3 feet down on the deep end wall (8.5 feet deep). I know I will have to call the builder but my questions for you all are: 1) is it safe to swim still? 2) is that a rock or piece of the gunite down in...

YippeeSkippe said: Your numbers are *not* good with that FC at 0.5 with a CYA of 40 (we round up). Your CYA is too low for a SWG, and if you didn't have one you should be striving to keep your FC at 5. See ...right here it says so -->FC/CYA Chart ** I know the 0.5 is not good and am flummoxed as...

Hello all! Our SW pool hasn't been holding chlorine for 2 weeks now. We have had to fill from hose due to heat, evaporation and kids swimming and also we have had a few heavy downpours. I'm at a loss as our numbers are good and the water is clear - a minuscule bit of cloudiness at the deep end...

Good morning all - I put this here as we have just opened the pool and FC is 0 and Ph around 6 SWG is not runnung at the moment as we have a huge stain in the bottom between the drains - most likely from tannins in oak and other biologic debris :( Yesterday I dumped in 2 bottles of Magenta -...

I have the zipper bag on my 380. I've had the cleaner for a year now and never have had trouble with the bag at all. If I ever needed to replace it, I would stick with the zipper bag that came with the cleaner! I think it is officially called a sand & silt bag. I saw one in my pool store for...

Hi all! Back for another season here - just received our test kit100 refills, yay! This will be the 2nd year of our "new" SWG pool. So we may be having a chlorine issue here but I'm not too sure. We opened 7 days ago to sparkly water and the pool co. was impressed. They dumped 6 bags of...

Hey Dave, are ya ready for a RV/pool swap yet ? LOL So according to the PoolCalc. we would need to drain 17% of the pool. Is there faith that the Aquarite Plus reading is correct? How can it go from 4300 to 4100 and bounce around so much? I wonder why the SWG is not throwing any warnings...

I have an Aquarite Plus SWG that indicates 2800-3400 salt level is optimal. We added 880 pounds of salt on 13 July for our 24000 gal pool. Salt level readings were 2800 the first few days and now fluctuating between 4100 and 4300 (?). The salt strips test show 3680 consistently. The water...

Are we there yet? Re: CH at 400, no FC & SWG on for 5 days Are we there yet, huh huh are we there yet huh?!? :lol: What a weekend! I had thought the pool was clear but now it is dazzling! So over the weekend we have come up with: Friday - added 1 gal Aftersunset FC 20.5 CC .5 TC 21...

We cleared a lot of land for the pool area so we think the critter activity may be due to displacement and hope in a few weeks it will subside. My indoor cat brought us 2 a few weeks ago from inside the house. We still have mostly dirt, with plastic sheating over it to stop weeds until we...

While this is a bit funny, it is also a bit sad for me and my little boys. Since the pool has been filled, we have found 6 field mice and 4 moles in the skimmers. That's about 3 creatures a week. I am upset by it and we know now to check the skimmers when the boys are not around. Any...

Hi Dave! The OCLT did not note the pump had to be running for the times you mentioned. I'd guess that most ppl run their pumps overnight so being that specific didn't matter. I should have figured this out, sorry! So added another 1.5 gal of bleach and redid the test last night/this am with...

Update: Last night when the sun set, I tested the water FC=.5 and CC=0 so TC=.5 I decided to dump 1.5 gallons of bleach into the pool for the OCLT. I spent about 1 hour stirring the water and moving it to and fro. I tested 2 hours later and had FC 6.5 CC .5 for TC of 7 The PB has the...

I can't get a good pic because it's a bit windy today and lots of ripples on the water. However, I took the chlorine tab and rubbed on the black dots/streaks and they did not disappear. The rusty brown colored splotches did disappear and I did try to brush them away again just to double...

Thanks for your quick replies! Yes, I meant .5 not .05. I'll go see if I can take some pics to show the black/rusty stuff. I'm trying not to get down about it and I hate to be a PITA on TFP as well. I kept our large intex AGP sparkly for 3 seasons with BBB so this new pool has thrown me for...

I hope I am overreacting but we just can't get a handle on the water and while it is nice and clear, I fear trouble is looming. We have black little streaks and what looks like black pits as well as some sandy looking stuff that may be algae. Today I see a few little brown/rusty spotting but...

Thank you ever soo much for riding to the rescue JasonLion :whoot: . I just came back from trying to run the chlorine test with the powder and reagents (from the TF-100) added the powder but the water didn't even turn pink - Yikes! All the settings at the panel appear to be proper with...

Oh all knowing and wise ones here at TFP - how I love you! I am hoping for a bit of assistance here with the SWG. We had 800 pounds of salt added on Wed (20th July) and so far, no chlorine in pool! AquaPlus (Goldline/Hayward) with a TurboCell 15 The reading is 2700 ppm on the control panel...

Thanks for the reply! I'm so nervous with this new pool! The plaster is now 12 days old so the Ph bouncing so high is still normal I think. I am hoping once the SWG gets going that we'll have more stable/detectable levels of FC. Will we need to add some CYA then? I don't think the SWG...

Hooray, I received the TF-100 kit today and WOW, I love it! So easy to follow. The plaster was done on the 30th and equip. began running on the 6th to it's still new. I took some readings and they are: FC 1ppm - tho I suspect this is actually at 0 Ph - was 8 earlier but 1.5 hours after adding...

Love the pool house - esp. one with a potty; I think that's a must have if you have kids and are able to get the plumbing out! Very very nice!

Thank you once again for your wisdom! Funky color on grout has disappeared where the water has been raised.. very odd! We now have 2 pucks in both skimmers and are brushing 2-3 times daily. At this stage, would the pucks raise the CYA so much that we would have to dump and refill a bit? As I...

Any ideas what may be causing this discoloration in the tile grout? I know many don't like tile grout showing like this but we do - maybe a bad choice? No signs of the same discoloration in the plaster at all and none under the water line. We're still scraping some sticky "gunk" off the tiles...