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First thing today, my husband is taking apart the DE filter and cleaning. We backwash regularly but as per Richard's suggestion we thought we should throughly clean it. How does one install a skimmer sock out of a knee hi? Do you just stretch the knee hi over the top of the skimmer basket...

to lovingHDTV, I am actually in Round Rock TX, but didn't think many would know where that is. Before you switched to SWG, do you remember what your "bleach" usage was, how big is your pool and your CYA? I have received a lot of good suggestions but don't want to spend $70 on a test kit if we...

Thanks Richard for explaining the costs. I am in Austin, Texas and our pool service was not Pool Chlor. As far as I know they did not use chlorine gas (at least I never saw that). Our $60/month included only testing and chemicals (we had to do all the brushing :( but to tell you the truth not...

No tablets were used, auto chlorinator was completely shut off. I believe pool service added enough liquid chlorine to spike up the FC. That combined with a high CYA allowed them to visit once a week. By the next week FC had dropped to about 2-3 PPM (as we verified by taking a water sample to...

Hi, Pool calculator says my shock level with CYA 100 is 25 PPM. The pool service used liquid chorine, imagine that, though I doubt he kept it at "pool calculator" levels, but water was always good. Wish I had done some testing when they maintained the pool. We did take a water sample to be...

Thanks for your quick reply, When I make my next chlorine addition in the evening (either tonight or tomorrow night) would it be sufficient to wait 1 hr. take a sample to the pool store for testing and then take another sample to the pool store at 8AM the next morning for testing? Do pool...

Hi, We have had a 30,000 gallon, de filtered pool for a year now. We live in very sunny Texas. Up until the last few months we paid a pool service to maintain our pool chemicals for $60/month. We never had a problem with the pool and we never checked any of the levels. After reading your...