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I've cut the pool store umbilical. can't say I'm on my hind legs yet by any means. Testing with the TF100 kit from here. The water is an opaque (can't see bottom or sides. Can make out the first step down) dark olive green largely free of debris. Been like this since the (last) hurricane. I...

Re: 11 jugs of bleach?! Is this right???

Wrong value(gigo!)! Enter correct value & use less bleach. Yeah! I can go with that! :goodjob: Thanks! :handshake: I have read & re-read that article. Printed it out and keep it handy. I guess my reading comprehension ain't what it once was. One thing though. Both you and...

"However, with 9 ppm free chlorine and 0 ppm combined chlorine, why do you want to shock? These two indicate the water's fine." The water is an opaque green and frogs are swimming in it. I would like to clear the wild life before closing it for the winter. I don't no what I'm doing...

I know I said I was a-gunna clean it but just hadn't been able to get it started. Well, I've finally getting around to cleaning my green water pool/frog pond. :rant: I was reading the section on this site from the pool school. It said to check hourly and add chlorine as needed to maintain...

Fellows, I am gloriously confused! But Be that as it may, I have lots of acid, lots of chlorine, and I haven't started yet. I intend to start in the morning. So unless I hear otherwise, I reckon to start by lowering the Ph, then dumping copious amounts of chlorine into the pool. I'm off to try...

if you have stairs that extend past the pool walls or Roman ends make sure the cover is large enough to cover them I've seen a LOT of pool owners buy a cover for a 16 X 32 pool but not take the stairs or longer ends into account so end up with a cover that doesn't cover the stairs. You know...

I posted a question about my frog pond--er pool-- here... scummy-frog-pond-halp-pleeze-t9753.html. The info I got suggested I needed to get the one under control to maximise the effectiveness of my chlorine (dollar store 6% variety)

Air filled??? I think I'm even more ignorant than I thought I was. :shock: I was thinking of those things that lay on top of the liner filled, I thought, with water. Would somebody please tell me what I'm talking about??? :hammer:

TA is high, 8.something, so I'll have to do the yo yo thing. Also, my source water is Ph high so as I vacuum out and refill, I'll have to bring it down as well. I have no earthly idea how much I'll need. I just don't want to run short. Thanks.

I'm buying my 1st winter pool cover. I have it selected but the pillows and whatever are separate. I have a 16' x 32' rectangular in ground. How many pillows, anything else?, do I need to do this right? Thanks. :)

My pool turned into a frog pond here lately. (hurricanes, pump quit, ad infinitum, ad nauseam :rant: ) and I want to clean it up before covering it for winter. That means ph up, down, up, down,-- I have to drive 20+ miles to get to the store for the acid so I want to be sure to get enough to...

Thanks for the advice. I'll follow it. I believe I'm ok to aerate. I have two outlet jets. If they're set to shoot up through the surface, will that be good enough? Why the narrow range of pH adjustment? Couldn't I bring it down to say, 7.0 then bring it back up? Just wondering what your...

It's only gotten this way over the past few weeks. I've fought this battle every spring for the past several years and I really don't want to go through that again because I'm a part time farmer at least and spring is busy enough as it is. I'm in Texas and there's enough warm weather that...

Hurricanes, :shock: power out, :x broken pump, :rant: J-factor, :hammer: all = okeefenokee swamp. Frogs is good anyway. That means no snakes :roll: ...Halp!? I know there's other similar topics, probably in plenty but I haven't checked in recently. Too, I wanted some advice with my...

Sorry I can't help. But I just post to welcome you to the forum,... reassure you this is the right place and that advice you get here will be very good and... lastly, to commiserate with you. My wife freaks if a skunk gets within a mile or two of the place. I can not imagine what I'd have to...

Hang in there. The power will come back and it sounds like you're doing good. We got our power back last Wednesday. BUT... The pool pump quit 2 days before Ike came in and I was wayyy too busy to do anything about it. Likewise for a day or two after. I wasn't able to brush mine in that time...

I've been battening down. I've been hemming and hawing over buying a generator for years. Can't afford it but finally gave over and spent the money for it. The freezer full of groceries will offset the cost somewhat. Now I just have to figure out how to hook it up. :shock: I ain't getting to...

I hope to be able to pull the pump and hope it's just something binding the impellers. I was running the barracuda and heard it quit. The pump suddenly sounded strained an then tripped the breakers. I can turn the impellers but it's stiff. I haven't a lot of time to spare on it. I'm battening...

Yes, I read the other topic. Being in NE Texas, I'm not directly in Gustav's path but, well may get a lot of rain. (like maybe a foot or more?) And I have other qualifiers that negate much of the advice given on that other topic. I don't have a pool cover. My pump just quit today. Now what...

Ok, may sound silly. But one fellow referred to getting his beverage and setting down to the table and enjoying his testing. I've been sitting by the side of the pool dipping as needed. With arthritis :rant:, this is not comfortable at best. Is there a better way? Taking a bottle with enough...

I'm in East Texas with a similar climate. But I have a nearby oak tree and need to cover mine. I'm tired of 'shoveling' leaves out and trying to find the bottom of the pool come spring when I have a lot of other pressing chores.

Hmmm. Those climate related folks basically just keep their pools 'open' at reduced operating levels. But that won't do for me. We have a large oak tree not far behind the pool that sheds nicely in spring or any good wind that if blows from the north, typical in winter, it blows straight...

Winter in my part of Texas is pretty mild. But still, is it a solar cover I want? Can these stand as double duty? And would the cost plus $40 shipping level out?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum. We have long put off getting a pool cover and have decided we can't any longer. I no it's early but we have to factor the cost into the budget and need to plan, if not purchase, now. I need suggestions for source and price range (I realize $$ is a variable...

Re: just got a T-100 test kit... General advice for a noob??? Thanks! I had meant to ask about that and forgotten to. I do pretty much the same thing though I've chosen to test from a still place directly opposite the return which is directly between the jets. I guess I picked it just on the...

Howdy all. I'm new to the BBB system. It's been raining for several days and the pool has been neglected for about a week :oops: But it's supposed to break tomorrow and we'll be hitting the pool and cleaning and adjusting it. Annddd I just got a brand spanking new T-100 test kit. :-D There...

Thanks for all the god advice. Thanks for everything. Great bunch of guys here. :goodjob:

Thanks much Waterbear. I learned the lesson about calcium stuff when the pool place sold us one 25# bucket for $31 noting we might need another, then sold us another when we did for a total of $64. It was then I noticed the 50# was only $32. I'm still royally POed about that! I'll let the...

I follow you. I'll look up this FAS-DPD thing. I'm not your usual pool owner. We bought this place when I was a machinist making good money. That's past history. today I'm disabled. We gave up some things to get this kit. I did research just did it badly apparently. But now it's a case of a...