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Didn't want to bump a thread from almost 2 months ago: Cannot get my SWG to work properly (and selling my house!)!) I've been having trouble with my SWG. Thought it was dead.. Here are my notes, In the previous thread I was told my method of testing or something is up. That's probably true but...

Hello, I posted a month or so ago about while trying to troubleshoot my SWG. ( Cannot get my SWG to work properly (and selling my house!)!) ) I've been pouring chlorine in manually but want to get this going before I close the pool (selling my house). I got some new "AquaChek 561140A Salt...

Hello All, I bought my house as a foreclosure at the end of 2012 and still using the same equipment that was here. I do not know the age, I think the pool and everything was built in 2006, Not sure if the SWG is that old or not. I've used it since opening the pool in 2013 without many issues...

I seem to forget what im doing every year until I get in the swing of things lol I'm trying to get my house ready to sell and getting the pool going is part of it. I just did some maintenance before I started the pool up, New gasket inside the filter, new laterals (Trying to replace the...

Hi all, Probably going to put my house up for sale, but been meaning to fix these broken laterals for like 3 seasons. Sand leaks into the pool (quite a bit) and I have to vacuum it all up all the time. I haven't opened the pool up yet, so I figured it would be best to vacuum out the sand now...

Just tested with TF-100: FC- 7 (little high) CC- 0 pH- 7.5 TA- 50 CYA- 60 I didn't check CH this time, but its always about 60. I slammed last week and have been trying to get everything to their proper levels. I was planning on raising my pH and TA a little bit. The TA is recommended to be...

Hello All, Pool was a swamp. Vacuumed as much junk off the bottom as I could and scrubbed. Next morning it was already blue instead of green. I had put about 5.5 or so gallons of chlorine in. This was Monday evening. Pool currently looks blue but cloudy. I'm wondering what I should get my...

about 3 weeks ago I posted about my pool being very green Pool looks green, sand filter leaking sand into pool I SLAMed the pool around 6-28/6-29 for quite a few days and it seemed to pass the overnight test. Everything seemed to be good again. Now I believe algae is growing again. There is a...

My pool has been looking 'green' lately. It seems to be getting worse. We had a bunch of rain a week ago and I drained a lot of water.. I didn't end up getting my CYA and Salt level back up to where they should be since the pool looked funny and I wasn't sure if i'd need to SLAM it. Also, my...

I just opened my pool on Sunday, it was gross and black. I vacuumed a lot out until it got dark outside and couldn't really see what I was doing anymore. I've been scrubbing and back washing since then I did pour a couple gallons of chlorine in (after checking pool math since FC was very low)...

I've looked at a few other threads that people had posted, sorry if this gets asked a lot. I bought my house as a foreclosure a year and a half ago, so this is my 2nd season with a pool. I'm not sure if this problem was there for the last people, but I sure am having it. I was too focused on...

Hope I'm posting in the right section. Was pretty gross/black when I pulled the cover off Sunday. 2nd season with a pool (last year was my first time and the house sat for 2 years so it was pretty bad then!). I opened the pool myself this year. Seemed pretty easy, pool is functioning correctly...

What are Water bags? \ Do these just go around the pool so the water doesn't freeze and damage anything? Do I need to go get some of these for tomorrow? I'm not sure what all the guy is going to do besides clear the lines/fill with antifreeze, put plugs in returns and put the winter cover on...

Left the hose on all night and all day while at work. Happened to remember that it was still on while I was at work and a friend was nearby to go shut it off. Well the water was right at the edge! I was so mad at myself that I forgot this, my water bill is going to probably suck :? Everything...

I don't know enough about pool heaters, my house was a foreclosure so it was taken. I had the pipes reworked to bypass where the heater sat but it's all setup for a has heater. I'd buy one if I found a good deal but wasnt really worried about it this first season with other house expenses. Is...

Turned my Aquarite system on Thursday night. Pool was about 3ppm if I remember correctly. I turned it on to run 6 hours a day. The next afternoon (yesterday) I checked it and it was FC 13 TA 13 -----EDIT: TC 13 CYA 60 pH 7.5 That was a big jump for one day! I turned it down to 3 hours a day...

Hi everyone, I seem to get a lot of dirt in my pool, havent tested to today but thanks to TFP my levels should be perfect and the water is sparkling. I think my system may have some air leaks around the filter as its not sucking as hard but I dont have time to figure that all out today. Also...

Hey everyone, I have a Polaris Auto Clear system. My house was a foreclosure so I have no manual to it. I'm going to run outside and do a salt test and see if I can find a better number to look up but I havent found a manual online for it. The last time a took a quick look with google, It was...

Hi again, My last thread had too much going on in it and i'm doing the shock process now so I'm starting a fresh thread. Here were my results 6/6 6/7 at night I added stabilizer & borax, then later added 3/4 gallon 10% Chlorine. 6/8 Morning my results were pH - 7.2 FC - 4.5 CC - 1 TC - 5.5...

Hey guys, Just did my first tests with the TF-100 kit... Here's what I got: TC - 0 I honestly couldnt even see ANY yellow CC - --- I didnt do any other chlorine tests since TC was 0, or was that wrong of me? pH - 6.8 TA - 45-50 CH - ~80 CYA - 0 Salt - ~700ppm I guess I need to figure out how...

Hi everyone, A little background. I knew nothing about pools 3 weeks ago. I bought my house back in December and it was a foreclosure. Very nice house that was well taken care of. The pool was closed for 2 seasons and the people sold the pool heater. The neighbors have pools and a couple of...