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Up until a few days ago, everything was going well. 3 days ago my tests were as follows: FC 3.0 CC .5 PH 7.5 TA (wasn’t tested but last week was 85) CYA 45-50 ish Salt 2800-3000 then yesterday when I opened the pool, it was hazy/cloudy and test results were FC: 0 PH 7.2 TA 120 CYA 35 Salt...

Ok, thank you very much! Appreciate your prompt response (and reassurance)!

Hi, My husband opened up our pool approx 3 weeks. At that time, I just assumed he only turned the pump on, as it has still been cold here. So we hadnt turned on the heat yet. I didnt realize our aquapure system was going at 50% (SWG). Yesterday we decided to turn the heat on and get things...

Our original heater is a Jandy LXi 400 BTU. Any recommendations on what we should get instead?

Our heater in our pool died this year and we need to replace it. Local Pool company suggested a Raypak 266 but then someone mentioned thought that may not be large enough. Any suggestions? We want a reliable heater that works and doesn’t take forever to heat up our pool. We open to any brand...

Ok. Thank you, this information is very helpful. Appreciate it.

Hi there, New liner, new water. Working on balancing chemicals. All is good but TA still quite high. Here’s my results so far ( this has included added a little of MURIATIC acid each day to bring down pH to 7.0-7.2 and then aerating back up. Little / slow decrease in TA FC 6.5 CC 0 CYA 80...

The pool is crystal clear. Thank you for your help! Much appreciated

Hello, New pool liner, new water, still trying to balance chemicals. One week in and here’s our readings CYA 25 FC 6 CC 0 TA 230 ! PH 7.5 CH 200 Salt 3300 I know I need to raise the CYA and lower the TA, but which should I do first or can I add both CYA and MURIATIC acid at the same time...

We have iron in our pool water ( from filling with well water). We’re in the process of filtering this out using the polyfil filter method, which seems to be working well so far. Some one suggested I may want to add sequestrant as added insurance when this filtering process is complete. I’m all...

Ok. Thank you! Good analogy.

Hello, I have been putting them in a nylon sock in the skimmer. I don’t have a skimmer sock. Tested my water this morning FC the same at 4. CC is zero. TA 200. pH 7.2 salt 3400. CH 275. The water looks better in the shallow end than the deep end, but still murky. Do you think I can rectify...

Hi , We had a new liner placed and needed to refill our pool with our community well water. When the pool was full, the water looked greenish/ Brown. We knew we had iron in our water, so before doing any chemical balancing, we added Polyfill in nylon socks to our skimmers, and seriously within 2...

Ok, thank you for your prompt response and help. I really appreciate it.

Hi there, We just replaced our liner and I’m in the process of balancing our new pool water. my Initial results: Cya: 0 FC:0 TA: 240 PH:8 CH: 275 We have well water and spent the first few days filtering out the iron color in our pool using Polyfill. Looks clear now ( was rust when we...

Hi, we are in the process in putting in a new liner and are now filling our pool with water using “community” well water. The liner company said we should probably treat our water for metals prior to adjusting any pool chemicals. I’m a little confused. We’ve had our pool for 7-8 seasons and...

Here's picture of the faded liner. Found it very interesting how it faded exactly on the middle of the diamond line. We do usually keep our pool water around that level, even though in this picture our water level is a little higher. Just cant believe that it faded perfectly on that line...

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I can try and get you a picture when I get home today. Hard to see it, since the water level is where it's at, but if I drain some you can definitely see it. I'll try and send one.

Oh that makes me feel better that I may not be "totally" to blame, but then also concerned to figure out the true cause. In any case, the liner does not feel brittle around the wrinkles. On two of the steps entering the pool, the liner has also showned some stretching( like there's extra liner...

thank you so much for you response and advice. That makes me feel a little better. Appreciate it!

Hello, We need your advice. We put our inground swg pool in in 2012. Two summers ago we had some problems with algae and thought we had yellow mustard algae. We had our pool at shock levels for a lengthy time that season and after a lot of help from your forum fixed the problem. Since that time...

Hi there, we just opened up our pool and I want check our chemical readings but the pool temp is still only 60 degrees. Do I need to wait until the pool is warmer to test or can I test now? It looks clean and clear but want to make sure we keep it that way. ( I'm wondering about chlorine levels...

Hello, We have a local pool company scheduled to close our pool next Monday. Although we wouldnt have minded keeping it open a bit longer for the season, we had limited options from this company. This weekend is going be 80+ degrees and we were planning to have friends over on Sunday for one...

We normally have our pump on 24/7 during our pool season ( may-sept), and usually our SWG at 40%. However since it has gotten chilly and we haven't been using the pool as much, I have been turning the pump off at night and running the SWG at 60%. My concern is that since the error codes are...

Unfortunately we have not had time to make any repairs/ modifications this last week, however we also discovered another piece of info that I'm hoping may help to determine if it's the cell that needs replacing vs the cell cord ,vs something else. We noticed that the error codes show up only...

Ok, Thanks for your advice. Our salt walter readings on our PDA say anywhere between 3100-3500 during the day. When we use our Taylor test kit it says 3600.

About a week ago our SWG was reading a number way out of whack: 12700 ppm. We assumed it was a faulty sensor. However when we went to investigate this further it was discovered that someone had intentionally cut our pool wires (another story for another forum)on our sensor. My husband is quite...

Hello: Just took off our pool cover yesterday to look at the pool. We aren't officially "opening the pool" until the end of this month. I decided to just check the chemicals just for kicks to see where everything was at: FC 6.0 CC 0 TA 80 PH 7.5 CYA 0 ( less than 20 when using TFT kit). Pool...