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    A question about chlorine/cya chart

    Everything I have read says chlorine should be maintained at 1-4 ppm. However, when looking at the chlorine/cya chart, the target fc column is always higher then 1-4ppm no matter how much cya is in your pool. What's the deal with this? Right now my cya is at 70 and the chart says I need to...
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    Do I need to use pool chlorine pucks?

    After reading through articles on this forum I keep asking myself, "what is the point of chlorine pucks if they just keep adding cya?" Shouldn't the cya that's already in my pool stabilize the chlorine I put in it? I'll admit, I was under the impression that you just keep adding pucks because...
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    Slightly green hazy water

    I can't seem to get rid of my slight green pool water. Here's my levels: Free available chlorine: 3.83 Total Chlorine: 3.83 Combined chlorine: 0.2 Alkalinity: 70 Hardness: 440 CYA: 45 Ph: 7.6 My water is super hard where I live. I have a TDS meter and it reads 550 coming out of the tap. So, I...
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    Another clueless new pool owner

    Hi, Ok, I just bought a house on a short sale. The pool hasnt been opened in 2 years. Details are in my signature. I had some pool guys come and open the pool. They said the water didnt look that bad. It was slightly green and you could see to the bottom. All they did was hook up the pump...