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    Bleach prices 2013

    It's 8.25% too by the way. I sent the first message from my phone and left part of it off.
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    Bleach prices 2013

    If you go to their website you can look at their sale flyers by store location. That's how I found out.
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    Bleach prices 2013

    I live in oklahoma and we have a grocery store chain called Homeland. Don't know if they are nation wide or not , but their store brand bleach went on sale today for $1.99 for a 121oz jug of 8%. I picked up 6 jugs. I can't find bleach anywhere for less than $2.00. The sale is on until the 16th...
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Would like to also point out that I backwashed it and nothing dirty looking came out of the hose after running it all night.
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Checked pool this morning. Still blue and cloudy. No change in clarity after having pump run all night. Back to reconsidering drain and refil or just giving up for the season. Pump has been running nonstop for a week and my electric bill is through the roof not to mention what I've spent on bleach
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Where has this DE stuff been all my life??? I can't tell much for the overall clarity of the pool, but I ran the vacuum, and could see red water running into the pump and it wasn't red coming out of the return. I'm considering that a small victory. I backwashed and nothing much came out again...
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    I backwash daily. today I've done it once this morning and once just now. THis morning was pretty gross since that was from all night, but just now wasn't anything to write home about.
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Oops just realized I adde the wrong photo. I think all the chemicals are getting to me lol.
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Went and picke up some DE today to add to my sand filter to help it out. The pool isn't green at all just cloudy. I'm a little nervous to use the DE since it could be a skin irritant ect. Also all I could find was a 25lb bag. A lifetime supply I think.
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    About 1 1/2 hours after clarifier addition and beushing the sides again like crazy. Also took the ladder out. It was pretty gross. Sorry if this is just taking up space on the forum, but it might be of use to someone some day.
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Also wondering if some clarifier would help clump the iron deposited together so they would get sucked up by the filter. I tried vacuuming them again today and as soon as I hit an area of it the return water ran red. I stopped backwashed, not much came out, then tried again and still the same...
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Here is the pool today. Not much change from yesterday. Went to vacuum the walls and brushed up lots of clumps of algae. Mid vacuuming I also realized that my hose had came loose and I was just brushing. :( oh well. Better than nothing. Going to be over 100 today so I'm back to checking every...
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    I've thought about vacuuming on waste, but I would have to replace the water lost so I'd just be putting more well water back into the pool.
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Here is the once white sock
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    Oh yes we have iron. We have a well and when we initially filled our pool it was a gross brown color. I've been back washing too.
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    So I've put 10 containers of bleach in my pool I the past 24 hours. I think the people at the store think I'm making meth or something at this point lol. I still can't keep the FC levels up ad they drop when I check every hour. I hooked up the vacuum and started going over the bottom of the pool...
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    Shocking pool, Question?

    After fighting the ph/MA battle, the SWG quitting, and trying to convert to chlorine, our pool turned a rather lovely color of green. Started the shock treatment yesterday and now the water is more of a murky gray/blue than green. The directions mention that I need to brush the pool at this...
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    Ph waaaaaaaay too high and can't get it down

    Well I know I can't fix the chlorine issue without fixing the ph but would iron from the rust mess with ph/TA??
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    Just don't know what to do anymore

    We have well water and our pool was brown from high iron once we finished filling it. I added some metal control and clarifyer from Walmart and that got the stuff to "clump" together and settle to the bottom. Then my husband rigged up a filter contraption from a bucket with a lid, drilled holes...
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    Ph waaaaaaaay too high and can't get it down

    Yeah. Have no idea. When we first filled our pool our water was basically brown from what we know know was rust from our well's pressure tank. We replace the tank and all is good with our water now. Vacuumed the rust out and the pool was crystal clear with the high ph and TA until the algae. Got...
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    Ph waaaaaaaay too high and can't get it down

    Also just tested the tap water. We have a well. and It actually tests on the low end for ph and TA.
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    Ph waaaaaaaay too high and can't get it down

    would I be able to smell the chlorine that the SWG makes?? Just wondering.
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    Ph waaaaaaaay too high and can't get it down

    So not the first time I've owned a pool, but this is my first time with a SWG. Since putting up our 24x48 Intex Ultra Frame I cannot get the ph and TA down to where they are even on the scale. Took water to the pool store to test and they gave me MA. After eventually adding the entire gallon...