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My landlord left me with the pool robot vacuum, but I haven't even bothered to get it out after I put it away after we opened. Since the water is so clear, it takes just a few minutes to capture every speck of debris that collects in the deep end using the leaf/silt net. Getting the robot out...

The yesterday image looks cloudy too, algae bloom already in progress, just has't gone green yet. Today the water polo pool started turning green. And the diving pool is still green... Oh God, Another Olympic Pool Turned Green

In addition to the test kit, you should get some sequestrant for your metals. I used hth Metal Control when I first filled my mil's pool and excessive bleach while filling caused it to go clear brown/green.

it's pretty easy to tell which one it is, it has big copper blocks attached to it.

I too have that swg on my mother-in-laws pool, and I just unplugged the copper electrode. No need for copper in the pool.

Yeah, you're not supposed to submerge the strip, just the lower end and wait for the yellow line to turn black, I use the cylinder from my test kit with about an inch of water in it.

I left mine intact, but I installed it before the water level had reached the level of the skimmer opening so I was able to install the skimmer without the gasket, cut the liner, remove the skimmer and replace the skimmer with the gasket.

Just do a search for above ground pool bonding. Essentially it involves running a continuous loop of 8-guage bare copper wire around your pool with attachments using copper lugs to at least 4 of the legs, any metal ladders, and to a water bond (usually in the skimmer), if the pump doesn't have...

Are you swirling the sample or just waiting? With the SpeedStir I can do the fas-dpd test in about a minute. If you are seeing the sample turn clear, you are done..., no waiting for it to turn back to pink again, it will do this normally after a minute or two and is not an indication that you...

I'd pull the CYA socks out of the skimmer basket until you have confirmed whether or not you have ammonia, just drop them in a bucket of tap water for now. No need to feed the bacteria any more...

What was your target? I would dose back up to target now and test in 10 minutes, that will confirm it...

You can do an ammonia test without an actual ammonia test kit. Ammonia consumes bleach very quickly and results in high CC, so the way to test using just bleach is to add enough bleach to reach your target level, then test 10 minutes later, if your FC has dropped more than 50% from your target...

If you bond the pool, it will help prevent the rusting, especially if you use a zinc anode. I know intex pools/pumps are not necessarily required nor designed to be bonded, but our inspector required us to bond ours. We had a small amount of rust starting at the base of the leg closest to the...

You only need to do the salt test if you are using a SWCG (salt water chlorine generator), and the salt test is not included with the K-2006 kit.

High CC and 0 CYA could also indicate ammonia, so it may be worth the time to do an ammonia test before adding CYA

to do the FC/CC test, add water to the 10ml line, add a heaping scoop of powder (taylor instructions say 2 level scoops, but one heaping works). swirl to mix, (speed stir comes in really handy for this step). If solution turns pink/red you have FC, now add a drop of R-0871 and swirl to mix...

The FC/CC test can be done with 10ml or 25ml of water. Most here use the 10ml sample size because it is accurate enough and saves on reagents. When using 10ml, multiply the number of drops by .5 to get your fc and cc.

I backwash my intex salt water pool onto the grass all the time and empty half of it onto the grass once a year (for the past 3 years) and grass is still healthy...

I jacked up the posts on mine with a bottle jack to level them. Not too difficult on the round pools, just be careful and make sure your jack is well supported and lined up straight with the lifting board.

As a side note, you should not use teflon tape on pvc threaded fittings. Installation

I used Armstrong-Clark Stain on my deck

footprint for the intex 18x9 is 10'10"x19'10" footprint for 18x9 intex ultra frame pool you will need a little more than that for the pavers. Sand is not recommended for intex pools as it will wash out from under it. That being said, I used sand (and had some washout issues) and needed to...

Big ones, they double as rafting inner tubes... Huge New Truck Inner Tubes River Tubes Snow Tubes Rafting Tubes 10 00 20 | eBay

I use truck innertubes, 3 of them tied together and anchored to opposite sides of the pool.

Samples | Armstrong Clark Stain I went with sierra redwood after ordering a bunch of samples and testing them out (they'll credit your sample order to your final order)

I leave my Intex up all winter in upstate NY. I have wintered it two years already and still not a single leak. I think most people that end of with pinhole leaks are the ones that take it down and try to store it.

You can't put more sand under the pool without draining it. I had about 5 poles that sunk in a major rainstorm 2 days after I set mine up, it also washed away about 2 inches of sand in a small area on the edge of the pool (about 1'X2') the liner sunk down to fill this small area with no...

Yes, no need to wait. I installed mine during the first fill up when it was about half full.

Yes, check the regulations, in my area as long as the walls of the pool are over 42 inches and you have a lockable or removable ladder a fence is not required.

Check your test instructions again, make sure you are using the right reagents. Chlorine test (FC) isn't supposed to turn from red to blue, it is supposed to become clear, you count the number of drops it takes to make the sample clear and divide by two if you are using a 10ml sample (which you...