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Was having a conversation with my dad about CYA and chlorine level, and lost my confidence in my understanding of the relationship and when swimming is safe. The chart (Pool School - Chlorine / CYA Chart), says that for a CYA of 60, the FC recommended level is 7-9. This means with the simple...

Hello All, I have an in ground pool, but it has a vinyl liner as the previous owner of the house said that the pool bottom was cutting her grandkids feet. There are no lights in the pool and I would like to fix this without major work of busting into the pool itself. I saw several highly rated...

Hello All, After getting a bunch of help here 2-3 years ago, I have managed fine on my own ... until now. We moved into a new house two days ago, and I need to get our pool into swimmable shape by this coming Friday evening (two days from now). When we got here the water looked clear, but I...

I live in New Orleans, and am finally getting around to closing my pool... It has been several weeks since we could swim, but the cooler temperatures have kept algae from getting too out of control, but the leaves are starting to pile up. I am currently running the robo cleaner in cycles to...

I am currently SLAM'ing my pool and have been backwashing once a day and started noticing yesterday that sand was coming out (I back wash into a big bucket I later dump out). I also have notcied what appears like sand in the bags of the robotic vacuum, but I am not as sure on this part as I know...

I was out of town for about ten days for work and while my wife tried her best to keep the pool stable, she did not quite manage :blah: When I came back it was quite green so yesterday I used one of the bags of shock she had bought (yes she even bought stuff from Leslies!) and then used three...

Did I really mess up? I did not realize until afater I had poured in muriatic acid that the robotic pool cleaner was still running. Should I be concerned about potential damage to it? I poured into the flow of the flow as usual so it should spread quickly at least...

I am from the New Orleans area and like most summers it has been raining really heavy every day for about the last week. This is making testing hard as for now I only have test trips (but just ordered a TF 100 based on recommendation from another thread). Since the top of the pool is largely...

I was out of town for about two weeks and couldn't attend to the pool. When I went to clean it today it had a good amount of leaves and sand/dirt/<something like that> spread out around the bottom. I vacummed and got the leaves out and nothing is on the bottom anymore but the water is definitely...

So I have read probably 20-30 threads on this forum and other places on the Internet about PSI but still a bit confused. Is there really no "normal" PSI and instead you should just see what your pool is at when filter is cleaned, skimmers are cleared, etc? I ask b/c my pool is a year old but I...

I have an AutoPilot Salt Chlorine Generator and am confused about the salt levels its reporting versus what testing at the pool store says. Yesterday morning I got the water tested at a local pool store and they said it was 2500ppm and recommended one bag (40lbs) of salt. Before adding, the...

As the title says, I poured the conditioner mixed in with water into the stream of the pump to circulate it instead of the skimmer as the leslie's instruction says to. How bad did I screw up?? It is night now and I cant see if it got disolved as it circulated or if its all just sitting at the...

I was wondering if anyone had a check list for weekly chemical maintenance for a salt water pool. I went to Leslie's to get a list and the list the employee gave me included muratic acid. Knowing how dangerous that stuff is I would prefer not to use it every week or even keep it around if I...