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So, I am going to be re-tiling the top 9 inches of my pool in the next few days. I am currently waiting on the tile to come in (should be here Thursday). During this time, I will need to drain the pool below the skimmer line and leave it that way for probably two days. This, to let the...

So my SpeedStir came in the mail yesterday. :whoot: I have a couple of dumb questions: Do you use it for all tests that call for mixing, stirring, etc? Do you add in the first reagent while stirring, then add in the next while still stirring? Stop stirring in between?

I have been on here for a little bit, but never introduced myself. :) My name is Jeremy, and live in Spring, TX (suburb of Houston). I have been around pools my entire life and helped my mother "balance" the pool at my childhood house. That really only consisted of testing the water a few times...

I am trying to figure out what size (by weight) these tablets are, but I can't seem to find this information anywhere. Is anyone familiar with these? :? I am trying to figure out how much they will raise my CYA per tab. http://www.proteampoolcare.com/index.ph ... tech-tabs/

So, I was thinking about this and decided to see what you guys thought. If you were to use the trichlor pucks (in a floater) to maintain chlorine and use bleach to 'fine tune'/shock the pool. How much water would you need to replace a month (week?) to keep CYA levels in check? I know it could...

So I have been getting interested the the BBB method. I checked out the Pool Calculator and downloaded the iPhone app today. I decided to run over to my grocery store to check prices on bleach, borax, etc. All of the bleach I found (went to multiple stores) was 8.25%. I notice on the Pool...

For those of us with tile pools, which pool surface setting should we follow on the website/app?

I have read about the shock process, and have done it in the past (based on the pool store's suggestion :oops:). I have recently been trying to get the hang of using the K-2005 kit I have, and noticed that the Chlorine level was a bit low yesterday. I apologize that I do not have the test...

So on Sunday, I realized that my manual pressure relief valve had a crack in it. At the time, all of the pool stores near me were closed, so there wan't anything I could do about it. A tiny bit of water would seep out of the crack, and if I turned the pump off, DE would start to leak out of the...

I searched around on this topic, but didn't really find what I was looking for... I recently turned a complete swamp into a pool, and had a question about the DE in the filter. When I first got started, I decided to manually clean the filter. When I opened it up, there were large clumps of DE...

Hey everyone, I recently took on the task of turning my mother-in-laws swamp into a pool and thought I would share. Stabilizer, algicide, acid, shock, shock, shock, shock, and removing the ridiculous piles of algae was the key. I ended up filling about 6 large contractors bags full of algae in...

New pool owner here. I have a Pentair FNS Plus filter, but do not know the filter size. On the side of the filter, there is a chart where the person installing the filter was supposed to 'check off' the model number (see below). As you can see, no one did this. The person that was...

Is there a "optimal" pressure the pump should be running for a given pump? Or is it pretty much what the pressure is right after backwashing? On my filter, there is a maximum operating pressure, but not mention of an optimal pressure.