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I add to mine every 2 days also. I usually buy 8 182oz jugs at a time, and that gets me though half the month. If you don't like buying that many jugs, see of your local pool store has any liquid chlorine they can sell you. Most are 5 gallon buckets around 12% strength.

Give me a bit and I'll get you some pics.

I've taken a bottle of pool store liquid chlorine, and a bottle of bleach, and keeped the labels. So when they freak out, I show them the ingredients of the two, and sometimes they calm down. Most of the time they don't. If it keeps ignorant people out of my pool, I'm fine with that. I'm in...

I just over heard a conversation from a co-worker of mine who says her pool is green. She was telling the other person about this chemical she added that "supposed" to kill algae. Something that's used in ponds, but I didn't catch the name. I chimed in, and started to tell her about why she...

Just wondering, you said you had a one in, one out on your above ground pluming. I don't know where you have your one in at, but you might want to try putting it in the deep end of your pool. This way your turning the water over in the pool. If you one in is setting above the water, then...

To the OP. I bought a house last year, and was in the same situation as you. Pool set for 3 years, pump motor frozen, bad pump valve, and holes in the liner from the rigged up pool cover the foreclosure company built over it. Which resulted with rust stains from nails, and holes from the...

I'm dropping 3 ppm a day, and that's with a clear pool cover.

Well guess this confirms that if you want low FC loss, go with a colored cover. If you want hot water, go for the clear. Mine hit 94 degrees today! A little to warm for me. I've pulled it off to cool it down a little. Wish I would have know this, as I would rather have the low FC loss over...

Interesting, I'm wondering if mine being clear is allowing more UV to get into the pool, burning off the FC?

For those who have a pool cover, I'm curious what your FC loss per day is? I've put a clear pool cover over my pool, mainly to prevent evaporation and FC loss. But I still have quite a bit of FC loss per day. Before I installed the pool cover, I was loosing 4 ppm of FC every day. Now with...

If they are using CYA results from the pool store, then yes it probably will be off. J.M.O. Did you use your kit?

hotnjax, I just read all your post on here. And no offense, because I know you love your wife, but tell her all she can do with the pool is swim and vacuum... :wink: They got you on the right track. After getting pointed in the right direction, reading, reading, and reading again, my pool is...

Good deal :goodjob: Thanks for the help!

The pump is a A.O. Smith Dual Speed. Model # is STS1152. It's a 240v pump @ 1.5 HP. I think I followed you through that. So basically, L2 Common has one of the 120v phases connected. Then the switch will connect the other 120v phase to either L1 or A depending on if I want Hi or Lo...

I just received my Dual Speed A.O. Smith motor to replace my toasted one speed Hayward. I have a question on wiring the dual speed switch. I have three connections. L1, L2, and A. I currently have both my 120v phases wired into L1 and L2. And I have my A disconnected from the neutral...

Ah so that's the magic number. 8) Now I just got to hope around the net and find one.

My pump in my Hayward Super Pump fried yesterday. I pulled it out, and was going to take it to have it rebuilt. But is there a direct replacement for these Super Pumps that are dual speed :?: I would just rather buy a motor, and swap it into the housing then to spend $500 plus on a whole...

It takes more time for me to go into Wally World and buy bleach one day, then it does for me to maintain my pool for the week. I'd say testing and adding only takes 5 minutes at most. And I only do it every two days. I'm sure this will go up when the use picks up. But I've noticed my pool...

My Wally World has changed also. Just bought 7 bottles this morning.

WOW, I really don't like you now! :goodjob:

I'll say there is about 20 to 30 spots where nails have laid. These are U shaped nails, not regular building nails. So their small spots, just lots of them. So are you saying doing the ascorbic acid treatment will take care of this? Sounds WAY to easy!

After finally getting my pooled cleared up thanks to this site :goodjob: I have another issue I'm needing some help with. When the foreclosure company took the house, they put down 2x6's across the pool, and laid chicken wire across them to keep from anyone falling in while the bank owned the...

Looks like I "might" have figured out what my pump problem was. When it was running right, the water line was about an inch from the top of the skimmer. After a few back flushes, and draining to waste, water level decreased, and that might have been what was causing it. It wasn't low enough...

I'm beginning to wonder, something just isn't right with the way it's acting. I'm going to look into it this weekend. Here are the readings I got this morning. FC=16 CC=0 And then this afternoon. FC=11 CC=1 So I took it back up to 17 tonight, will see how things go tomorrow. But it's...

No, I wasn't vacuuming. This was just regular filtering with both my skimmer and drain on. When I turn my valve into recirculation, it instantly picks back up. Then when I switch to filter, it will run fine for about 10 minutes, then it seems to lose prime. Like I said, back washing seemed...

Added around 384oz of 12% yesterday morning. Then used my vacuum to brush everything up off the bottom. But I did have a few hang ups. Toward the end of my brushing, in which I was using my vacuum head not attached to the pump, the vacuum came off the poll. I couldn't see where it was, and...

8) Checked my PH this afternoon, and it looks to be 7.5 on the money. I will start my shock Saturday morning!

Well today I added the following: Stabilizer= 64oz Borax= 100oz I'll follow up on my PH through the week while the CYA dissolves. What's the minimum I should wait on my CYA? I was really hoping to start shocking this coming Saturday, which will be 4 days from now. Also when they say...