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Hi all, My daughter has found that swimming in friend's salt water pools helps her skin eczema greatly. We do not have a SWG. Is there any reason why I couldn't just add 3,000 ppm of salt to my pool without a SWG? I would also keep a Zinc ball (sacrificial Zinc anode) in the skimmer basket just...

I just measured my pool with the TF 100 testkit: [Edit to correct name of testkit:Butterfly] :wink: Free Chlorine: 3.5 Total Chlorine: 4.0 pH: 6.6 Total Alk: 50 Cyanuric Acid: off the chart, somewhere around 150 Seeing the total alkalinity and pH are very low, I started by adding a 6 lb bag of...

My pump has started making a rattling noise. It sounds like it's shaking dice. After a couple of weeks of a low rattling noise, today it turned the volume to 11. I'm afraid the pump is going to die. Should I try to open the plumbing and free whatever is stuck in there, or is this 'cavitation'...

I understand from the consensus here that using Trichor tabs in an automatic feeder will eventually raise CYA too much. But what is the alternative? I work long hours during the week and tend to the pool on the weekends, so I can't be manually measuring chlorine levels and adding bleach daily...

I need to replace my cracked Hayward in-line chlorinator. I've read recommendations in this forum and on PoolSolutions.com for the Pentair Rainbow (Ben Powell's favorite). However 100% of pool store people I've asked have recommend the Hayward. Can anyone recommend one over the other and why...