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Just got the pool opened up recently. Got our Chlorine up. Went to the store for a full test. They said our Nitrate was too high (29ppm), and we needed to dump/refill the pool by 1/2 or 1/3. I don't think we had this issue last year. We did use Phos-Free a few times last year to clean the pool...

WOW!!! this is a great thread. very informative. thanks

when I went out today I could almost see the bottom of the shallow end (read 3 ft) which IS an improvement! It is very encouraging, but I felt that the test I took at the end of the day was more purple then the test I took this morning so I will def. make sure to keep my FC up consistently until...

love the scum balls idea... will get those have skimmer socks... they do help good idea about waiting to jack my CYA until I am done shocking continuing to add bleach until my test kit comes ROFL about the bleach answers.... I will find that thanks again all, I am SOO excited to see what I...

ok... thanks.... you're awesome :thequeen:

ok... I went out and bought cya (and told the store clerk all about your site, lol) but I will wait till the test kit comes. i ordered it so... I did want to say, btw my pool store doesnt test strips. they have a machine and they fill several vials with your pools water (each vial turns a...

ordered the kit but there were no chemicals with it... is there a cheap online place to get the chemicals (namely CYA right now). also does anyone know of a place to buy bulk amounts of bleach? as I reread through this: much love to chem geek... I didnt mean to come off short. this is just...

hey... so I thought I would take my water to the pool store to get a round of testing until my kit comes. here is what they gave me: FC = 5.0 TC = 5.0 pH = 7.6 Ca Hardness = 332 TA = 82 CYA = 8 :shock: copper = 0 iron = 0 WTH!!!! that is not at ALL what I was getting for alkalinity and...

ok.... thats crazy!!! I will order the test kit (maybe pay for speedy shipping, lol). there is no great escape around me :( The "shock" is 78% calcium hypochlorite (min available chlorine 75%) and it says on the container does not cause overstabilization. I have tested the cya and the store...

Hey all... This is the Simpleton's Wife again... :wave: I need help... I am confused. I thought I was doing great, I at least had clear water for maybe 2 straight months working your method (I thought). I got a little less then clear and increased my chlorine and ended up adding the stuff...

they are not test strips. The chlorine has 5 drops of 2 different solutions to figure out FC and then 5 of a different solution to figure out CC, there are 5 drops for Ph, and then 5 drops for TA and then you count how many drops of titrant to change the color, same basic technique for CH. The...

BTW thanks for thsi info. it was comforting and I decided to wait and see if it came down some on its own and it did. I am glad I did nto dump a ton of muriatic in it, though I am still thinking it may need a little

quick recap: added two gallons of red max last night w/ pump on this morning tested only pH (7.8 ) and FC (0) but water was CLEAR added 1.5 gallons of red max this morning vacuumed this afternoon tonight tested w/ PoolLife Brand deluxe 6-way test kit and got FC-0 CC-.25 (maybe? I am pretty...

As far as I can remember the margaritas were under control, but the memory is a little fuzzy so... who knows, lol ;) so two bottles of red max (YES it IS the liquid bleach, lol) last night and this morning we are Quite Clear. I tested this morning and still get a reading of zero for chlorine...

thanks guys... we will buy some CYA this weekend **runs out to add another gallon of red max** night ;)

lol... this is simpleton's wife :) The one time that I finally got any chlorine to register in the pool there was a salt formed on our skin, not slime. Any ideas about that? Every other time I test I cannot get ANY chlorine to register at all. My ph is fine and even slightly low I would say...

It looks pretty good in the shallow area, but kinda cloudy in the deep area. I'll have to get all my numbers in so i can tell you what is going on.

My wife is worried that using the BBB method is going to give your skin that "slimy" feeling on your skin. So she's been keeping the Chlorine level very low (almost zero). Is this a founded fear? Could there be another reason that you'd get that "slimy" feeling? Like maybe the borax or...

Awesome. Thanks so much!!! I think the pool is going to be a lot better this year.

I went to the pool store.. and they said that we should be using the "EZ Pool" chemicals. Now, we don't have any special "EZ Pool" equipment. They said that we could use the BBB method, but that it would be more complex.. and with EZ we don't have to test or do much of anything.. except add EZ...

I'm really enjoying my learning experience here on TFP. So, here's my next question: How long should I be running my pump/filter? And how long should I be running my polaris? Right now, while it's dirty.. and i'm doing a chlorine-shock.. should I keep it running nonstop? But then when it's...

Last year we started doing this "new technique" for filtering. But now i'm thinking it might be bad. Run the sand-filter on "backwash" while also running the vacuum to pickup the really dirty parts of the pool. Our thinking was.. to vacuum during this time, we would get the benefit of pumping...

I'm new to this BBB method. I have heard our pool-builder-supplier say that store-bought chlorine bleach is not good for the pool. Is there any substance to this? or is this just b/c they want me to buy their product? We have a 2 year old 30k gallon in-ground pool. It's the regular cheap-o...

Hey all. I'm new here. After last years fiasco of algae and cloudiness, i decided to get on the ball and learn about pool upkeep. (Yes, i'm studying and taking notes from the Pool-School) So, here's my question: Does my Polaris 360 "clean" the pool? or just pickup large junk and keep the water...