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Okay, I've finally pulled my head out and gotten the whole picture. My CYA is zero, which of course means chlorine doesn't survive a day in sunlight. Now I just need to figure out how that happened. My test showed that it went up a couple months ago faster than I expected from running the...

only this past few days with this junk, been using it all summer. It's now cloudy but it's been good up til this. Using a TF-100 kit. Last night I put in the Pool-Math recommended 7 gallons of Clorox 6% from Costco, this morning it's off-scale high on the daily test, this evening I'll do a...

Disregard, logic finally prevailed. My problem was not bad bleach, it was lack of conditioner. ---------------------------------- Heads up, if you're buying a lot, better check it first. Bought the last I could find at Wally World, then my wife discovered Lowe's has it too. ALL of this last...

Sorry, you're right, that was written in a hurry. What I was trying to say was that the 'spindle' or shaft that goes down through the center of the valve top, with the selector handle on top and the 'diverter' or whatever it's called, on the bottom, that might have some friction preventing the...

Re: Finally, the success story Here's some better pictures of the stains and markings. The stuff on the walls and steps mostly looks like the paint and some of the underlying surface has come off. The walls look more like stains to me.

Re: DE Filter Cleaning Tutorial My pool and spa are connected together with a tube through the wall that allows them to equalize if I don't have the balance perfect, although it wouldn't be big enough if I was sucking down the spa hard. I have done that by accident before. My return from the...

Split from the DE Filter Cleaning Tutorial to keep the Sticky clean. jblizzle. something about this I'd like to clarify: On my pool at least, there's a pretty big difference in pressure depending on which valves are open from the pool into the pump. When I'm charging the filter with DE, I...

on my pool, I did have to cut pipes, and I dreaded it, but once I got started it wasn't so bad. I've replaced the multiport valve twice now, I discovered the hard way WHY you don't EVER lift the valve handle while the pump is running. I found instructions for working with PVC pipe but I never...

Finally, the success story well, it's been a pretty good while since I've been active on here, but over the last month or so I finally got active on the pool, and yesterday we took our first swim in about 5 years. The first thing I did was replace the multiport valve, which let us begin to...

why in the world are you adding stabilizer when your CYA is already too HIGH?

Okay, I can live with that. Maybe we should switch the links all over the site then, to point to the good one?

Linen sent me a link to calc.html, but the link that's all over the place to poolcalculator.com is a lot easier to find. However this calculator is missing some of the new sizes for chlorine jugs, etc. Could we maybe update the one everybody links to to make it work as well as the one here at...

Thanks! Great, thanks for that. The links I'd been finding earlier went to poolcalculator.com and it doesn't have the new sizes. I gather that from reading other's experience, though the ones I find mostly have sand filters. I'm still trying to get my head around how to get from "can't run the...

Howdy, nice forum you have here. Already learning. I'm sure I'm not the first, but I'm here because my pool needs serious help and I need to try to do the work myself, and I don't know enough. It's daunting enough that I've even considered just filling it with dirt. But, it looks like I'll...