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Curious your thoughts. I'm sold on the convenience of salt water pools. Did the daily bleach routine for several years, but life got busy and salt is my preferred chlorine method now. 3 years ago I installed a Circupool SJ-40 system for my 14k gallon pool. Year one was amazing. Short run times...

Having a bit of a frustrating start with my SWG. This is the start of my 3rd season using SWG. 2018 was a first install of a complete SJ-40 unit. 2018 was awesome, moderate SWG %, moderate pump time, steady chlorine. Last year, I think the SWG ran briefly at the very beginning, then it refused...

I tried searching, surprised this hasn't been discussed more before. I'd like a little less frustration with vacuuming the pool. The head is most of my frustration. I've used the lil triangle brushy job, and the oval brushy job. Neither stays on the floor that great, and both just push dirt...

Or, perhaps a better title would have been "I want to understand algae". I'm hoping some pros will enlighten me. I was on the verge of posting in the SWG section of the forum, complaining that my newly repaired SWG is under producing. However I'm almost positive it's likely doing just fine, but...

This just started happening yesterday on my just over a year old SJ-40. The unit powers on, but the power LED steadily blinks. It used to power on, pause a moment, then LEDs would all light to my desired output level, then a moment later the cell would start bubbling. With the SWG on for...

Happy 4th of July my fellow pool folks! I've got the day off of work, and figured I might sink a little time into a new mystery on my pool. Quick setup: My pool has 2 suction pipes which Tee into the pump motor basket. A drain pipe and a skimmer pipe. Water is pumped through a sand filter...

Okay, so I've seen a handful of opinions on this, basically that the salt % in a SWG pool is somewhere in the realm of 10-15% that of the ocean, and many folks can't even tell there is salt in the pool. That was part of the expectation of going to an SWG method of chlorination. Never...

Alright, so I'm looking for quick advice, and I'll update with more info later. Basically I'm trying to decide what the best way to proceed is. My pool cover collapsed due to a leaking pool, that's another ongoing thread..., but basically I've got perhaps 6000 gallons in a 14k pool right now...

I must be missing a FAQ page somewhere, or simply I haven't hung around the SWG page enough to pick up the lingo here. A lot of people appear to be linking variable speed pumps and SWGs. As if a single speed pump isn't really compatible with SWG pools. I'm sure that's not the case, but at the...

Greetings TFP. I'm considering going to salt this year. I've been using bleach for the past 4 or 5 years and have a very firm grasp of the chemistry involved, but I really haven't read up much on SWGs, so I wouldn't mind somebody holding my hand through the conversion. My reason for wanting to...

I'm curious what options/suggestions you guys recommend for my current situation. The past two winters, I've had a water level problem. During the summer, never had to add water. Even with kids swimming daily, water level was never an issue. However, it started last winter. The water level was...

Greetings folks. I'm looking for any suggestions on where to source some cheap bleach in Tennessee. As I live in northern Virginia, I was hoping to land the help of a forum user from TN. I've got a buddy who lives down in the area, and is trying to clear up a pool. I think he's already a bit...

I typically check TFP.com from a PC. Anybody remember PCs? Those wonderful creations that let us type things quickly? I'm getting distracted... Anyhow the home page has some random images from posts. These are interesting, but I don't see where it links to the thread that they were pulled out...

I've heard bleach loses its potency over time, how much would it dilute over the winter? I ask because there's an Ollie's locally which stocks the Austin's Pool Shock, which is 12.5% bleach. They have cases of the stuff, and I'm pretty sure I'm one of the only folks who buys it too. So as the...

Alright, so this has been causing some grief in my household and I'd like some more understanding so that we can resolve this. My wife is a loving mother. She's quite good at her job of raising 5 kiddos. They're young, and like many moms today she pours ever whole existence into their well...

I've used a bubble wrap solar cover for years now. I always buy the cheapest clear one money can buy, and seem to get about 2 years from one cover. It is typically TOTALLY destroyed by the end of season two. We can do the "Get what you pay for" discussion, but I'd rather find out how you roll...

I opened my pool on Sunday. Water was cloudy, green floor. I ran out of bleach at the end of the season last year, and covered it on the onset of an algae attack. Figured smothering the growth without sunlight for several months would keep it at bay. Thought wrong? Anyhow, I shocked the snot...

I procrastinated on this one, but I need a winter cover to replace the one I threw away after opening this season. Suggestions on where to buy, or style of cover are welcome. The one I was using came with the house/pool, so I've never bought one. But after patching the last one several times, it...

Well poo. I started the season excited about the TFP method. SLAMed early, blamed that on a rough opening session which sent some gnarly tarp water into the pool. Round July 4th I got a similar cycle of yellow gunk accumulating on the floor to wall slopes. Did a quasi sand filter rebuild with a...

Well, I've had a cloudy yo-yoing pool since I opened it this year. Meaning, it wants to clear up, and struggles to get there, then when I go to vacuum or brush, or agitate anything in the pool, it murks up and becomes cloudy (not nearly as transparent). So I decided I was a prime candidate for a...

Opened pool May 25th. First season on TFP method. Never used bleach before, but so far, so good. Water has been clear until yesterday. My numbers all seem good PH 7.3 TA 140 CYA 45 Never seen hardly any reading for CC. Let FC bounce up and down between 4 & 6. Pool's appetite is very...

Granted this is the very first time I've ever used the TF-100, very possible my results aren't 'perfect'. Like for CA, I wasn't entirely sure when we reached 'blue' status, enough to stop dropping and call it good, similarly for TA, the result may be slightly high, as it was 'turning red'...

Greetings folks. I've been a Trouble Free Pool follower for the past year or two. I've all but abandoned pool chemicals based on info I'm learned here. Still enjoy the convenience of 3" pucks. However, my problem, and why I'm begging for help, is I need a new pump motor. Last season, the motor...

Sadly, after 20 years of me enjoying it, my grandparents filled in their IG pool. The grandchildren were grown, the pool saw little use, and they were tired of caring for it. Anyhow, I was the only one with a pool, so I was invited to raid the pool supplies. There was this Aquabot, whose...

Hello group. Briefly read this site parts of last year, will likely become more involved this year (beg for help), as I was frustrated with pool chemistry last year. (Burning eyes even with brief underwater eye opening) Any rate, I have a 14x34' IG. Just opened late last month, we use a tarp...