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ok, I've been doing BBB for a few years now, thanks to the help of this board. I though I had a good handle on it but I am stumped! my pool has been a hazy green for a few days now. at first I thought algae <uggh> and shocked it into submission. when the levels were high enough and there was...

yes, the fc was the same before I put the solar cover on, not sure about the cya because I didn't test it then--but I assume so. it's down a bit from last year because of the partial drain and then refill from the winter closing. I used the TF test kit..I did estimate the 15, it was a bit higher...

I understand that algae is a result of too little chlorine...but 6.5 is higher than I had it most of last season without problems. why would this develop now without 1) a swim load or 2) warm weather? so far we've only had a couple days make it to 70f, and many nights drop down to the 40's and...

I opened my pool a few weeks ago and things have been going along good. I've been running the filter on and off (mostly on because I forget to shut it off for days at a time) and testing to make sure things are relatively normal, even though there wasn't any swimming--the water was still only...

thanks to a lot of great advice here I went ahead and bought a mesh winter cover for my above ground pool. closing went like a breeze, and all has been well until now. I'm in massachusetts and we have gotten slammed with more snow before jan 1 than I think we got all last winter combined...it's...

I didn't add that much--1 gal of 12% in a 17,000g pool. that usually only brings it up to around 7-8ppm. I did it to shock it in preparation for closing and because after I pulled the stairs I noticed some algea in the area where they had been. I wanted to kill it off to make sure there were no...

I've been using the HTH 5 way test kit all season without a glitch so I figure why fix something that isn't broken...but I just went out and tested tonight only to see some really strange results! the chlorine side was yellow with the first couple of drops but by the 5th it had turned an ugly...

I planned to do the exact same as you are describing--thanks to your advice earlier in the season ;) -- but when I mentioned leaving the skimmer open to my pool installer (who is all for the BBB method and is actually the one who directed me to TFP) they said not to because as the water freezes...

thanks to everyone for the suggestions...the new pump is still working (thankyoulord..lol) and I took your advice mike--I supersized it of course, because I am just getting pretty sick and tired of the hassle and wanted to be done with it once and for all :lol: 2 5gal gas cans filled with 120lb...

anyone here own the catfish vac that is like the pool buster? I have been searching around for a good price on the pool buster today and a few results that came back were for the catfish by pool blaster. any opinions on how well this catfish works? it's a little cheaper than the pool buster...

I had a huge disaster that involved broken sand bags and a clogged pump this week...I still have a little bit of sand in the pool I need to get out but now I'm afraid to vacuum ANY amount of sand and kill another pump. how else do you get sand out, maybe I'm just not thinking right today but...

it was sand that clogged the impleller. the pool store guy just about had a heart attack when he opened up the motor and turned the impeller screw with a screwdriver and heard it grinding around in there!!! LOL of course, I was terrified that they would blame me for the break--(yes, technically...

unfortunately...the store doesn't have a 3/4hp pump. they have 1 & 1.5 single speed and a 2hp 2 speed. unless I just want to toss the old pump (which is now only 2 days old) and spend the money on a new one I have to take what they carry in exchange. I think the first pump was bad from the...

OK, so I guess I was a bit overconfident in my pool savy after all the reading I did on here and I needed to be taken down a peg or two!?! in the last 4 days I had 2 pumps fail and the sand bags for my steps burst :cry: I'm heading out to the local pool store to replace pump #2 shortly and...

thanks...that only works on the new AOL 9.0VR I believe. I have an older version and have no option to clear footprints, yet I do have that option on my other computer that is running VR. I figured out the problem and solved it in IE and for now I'll just deal with accessing this site from...

thanks andy...that's the figures I got too. I also have that calc and ran it after I got the funky message from bleachcalc. now I can see that it was probably more the way I was reading it--I took their " NOT borax" to mean do not add borax to raise pH instead of the measurement being for a...

thanks everyone...for the stories about your local stores and testing...I've got a handle on home testing now (or at least I'm deluding myself into thinking that..lol) so I'm staying far away from that store for any info from now on. I did take a sample in today, just for ha-ha's, since I needed...

how many cya tests are you able to do with the TF kit?? I have the hth 5 way also and they only have enough for 2 tests. :roll:

Hi... latest testing shows that my pH is a bit on the low side. so, after reading all around here I *know that I should add some borax...except when I put my info into the bleachcalc to see how much it tells me to "add 13.6oz of sodium carbonate (soda ash NOT borax)" ?!?! I thought you added...

well now I know not to trust the pool store. did a complete testing today and there is NO cya in my water therefore there is NO chlorine...yet again!! after the chemical dump last night, I thought I would be good but no...today while I was at work they shut the filter off--they just can't grap...

it's a brand new pool, so it's water straight from my hose--city water not well. my neighbor 2 houses down had to do a new liner in her pool this year..so a complete refill with hers. she took a water sample to the store and they said that her iron was very high...claimed that our city water was...

so..a week into this and we still haven't gone swimming yet :cry: between the issues I had with the filter, cool days and now chemical readings I just want to cry yesterday I took some water to my local store and they spit out these readings: my pool (their rec. #) TC 0 (1-3) FC 0...

thanks for the suggestions...it seems that the installer neglected to tighten down everything :roll: there is a yellow screw on the side of the pump---it was not tight enough and was letting air in...had nothing to do with having too much water in the pool. a bit peeved that the installers...

I'm getting frustrated -- have tried deleting cookies, clearing history, ect multiple times but still having problems with log in. if I log in through AOL browser I sign in on main page, get a redirect and see welcome amieelynne...then when I click on either forum (on the left) or index (on...

thanks for the info, I had the pool installers out today and they claimed I was having problems because the water level was more than 2 in above the bottom of the skimmer. my water was just above the little line on my pool light, so it wasn't that high at all...I think it was a line of malarky...

OK, so...the pool is up and running--not only that but it's full!! of course, this means I have more silly questions :oops: I turned the filter off tonight, and was shocked when my skimmer tranformed into 'ole faithful--spitting up water like I never knew possible, if the cap hadn't been...

Mike, are you having trouble with it not producing enough fc or too much? I'm looking at this for a 27' round and wonder if it's powerful enough so Im curious. also, did you change it over to a 110 from 220v and just connect it to your existing gfci or did you have a new line run? only a month...

you are just a wealth of info nwmnmom...lol. it seems I've been reading and responding to your posts mostly today--guess we're on the same brainwave :lol: do you happen to have pics of this maintainence hinge on your deck? we get frost here too and I planned to build my deck even with the top...

even if the cells were $200...that's not sounding too bad when you think about it--$200 for startup, $200 in a couple years vs. $800 (min) startup and $200-300 in a couple years. I mean, either way you have to replace cell in SWG right? I was reading the manual though--it calls for 3500-4000 ppm...

I'm curious too..if anyone has more info about these. I'm reading up on SWG's but have pretty much ruled one out for at least this year because of the cost. $200 is cheap so I am skeptical but with $1200+ price tags on traditional SWG they are more than just a bit more expensive and out of my...