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Hello. We had a new vinyl liner installed Thursday. The company added 2 chlorine pucks in each skimmer and they are pretty much dissolved. (We don't usually use them but I didn't have bleach at the house because they decided to do our install at the last minute). I tested the water today...

I believe we have a leak in our inground pool. We are losing about a half inch to an inch every 8 to 12 hours. This is with the pump off. We have an automatic pool cover that has been on almost constantly and it hasn't been that hot so evaporation shouldn't really be an issue, correct? My...

Hello. Is the pump to get rain water off the top of the automatic pool cover supposed to get most of the water off with the pool cover closed? It's like ours isn't heavy enough to make the water slant towards where the pump is and there are huge puddles all over the cover that the pump can't...

Hello. We got an automatic pool cover installed this season. The guys who installed recommended we go back to using our mesh pool cover when we close and for the winter season. Is this what most people do or do you just leave your automatic pool cover on year round? If if you do go back to...

Hello. We seem to have to fill our pool quite often. We have an automatic pool cover which is supposed to keep evaporation at bay. Most days, I run the pool for 4 hours and we lose 1/2 inch or so. However, I forgot to turn the pump off for about 24 hours and the water dropped at least 3 or 4...

Hello. I just read the article in pool school about how long to run your pump every day. I don't understand why the 2nd paragraph says for people following tfpc may only need to run 30 min per day and the next paragraph says you should 4 hrs/ day. Not sure which to follow? Thanks - - -...

Hello. We opened our pool Saturday. Added 2 bottles of algaecide first thing (this is what a company did for us last year - not sure if it was necessary). Pump has been running 24/7 since we opened. All our chemicals look good - as of yesterday this is what we were looking at: CYA - 38ish -...

With the Taylor test kit, it says add 2 scoops of powder when performing the fc test. Is this for 10ml of pool water too or do I only need 1 scoop? (It doesn't make sense to me to use the same amount of powder for 10ml and 25 ml of pool water). Just don't want to waste supplies! Thanks!

Hello. We opened our pool 3 days ago. Trying to slam with fc at 12 and cya 30. Last night before going to bed, fc was at 12. This morning it was at 10.5 so we only lost 1.5ppm (I realize it needs to be 1 or less). However - by those numbers I would think our pool should look pretty good...

Hello. The past 4 days or so, we did a SLAM. Yesterday, FC was 7.5 and ph was 7.1. I added 1/2 large bag of baking soda (7 lbs) to bring ph up. This morning, I tested and fc was at 3.5 and ph only came up to 7.2. I added 1/2 jug of bleach to bring up to 4 fc. If the baking soda worked...

Hello. We just received the Taylor k-2006 test kit in the mail and have all of our values. Free chlorine - .8 Combined chlorine - 3.4 ph - 7.5 Hardness - 150 Alkalinity - 70 Cyanuric Acid - the black dot never disappeared so I'm going to say low Questions: 1. I thought there was supposed...

Hello. We had a professional open our pool 4 days ago. He put in 2 bags of shock. We tested the next day and it read no chlorine. We added 4 3" pucks, tested the next day, still nothing. Since then, we have added 2 full 121 oz jugs of 8% bleach. Still not registering any chlorine. It...