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Just wanting to verify the order of some things I should be doing.. I don't have exact numbers in front of me but I'm sitting somewhere around FC=10, CC was around .5 last I checked CYA <20 (filled to the brim of the beaker in the TFP kit I can still easily see the black dot, but it is...

Thanks to a friend loaning their sump pump, and some extra muscle we got the winter cover off yesterday! Underneath was not clear (didn't do a full, proper slam when the cover went on) but not terrible. Green tint and cloudy but could still see the bottom @10' down. We just have the temp...

Hi all, I've really been wanting to figure out how to do an auto-makeup system for our pool. Years ago on a family pool I managed to fab up something that basically used a toilet valve with a PVC line going from a hose into the skimmer, however my new pool doesn't have a hose outlet anywhere...

Hi All, We're really late getting to "closing" time as we haven't used the pool since early September, but finally scheduled Leslies to come out and "winterize" the pool (this is our first "closing). They said they don't have any fittings small enough to plug the return lines, and the eyeballs...

Hi All, This site was a great help for us this year! One of the things we've been trying to figure out is what to do for a winter cover. The cover that was on the pool when we bought the house was long past due for replacement. I don't have any interest in talking to the "poolguy" that we...

My pool has these little holes all the way around... maybe 6' spacing or so. There seems to be a short threaded portion.. I can put a finger pretty much all the way in without bottoming out. Also, two of these little "star" shaped features, and one portion where there's 4 holes in a vertical...

Now that my SLAM is over, and mechanical failures seem to be resolved I wanted to move onto another "to do" A good chunk of the waterline tiles have come off (before I bought the house), I retrieved 14 or so in-tact from the bottom of the pool and have a stack of unused tile in my garage...

Pool is finally clear, CC is <.5 (VERY slight tinge of pink). OCLT has been consistently very low, and I will test tonight to make sure it's still low. I went ahead and tested everything else PH 7.5 CH 225 TA 50 CYA 39 So PH and CYA are about perfect. CH a little low, and TA fairly low...

Background : Purchased house with pool in November, there's pretty spotty service history and the local pool guy has been pretty much useless.. As part of a SLAM it was recommended that I remove my underwater light to clean in behind, which was a great suggestion as it was gross back there...

I've determined I have a leak where some water is coming out the waste pipe when in filter mode, and from reading the spider gasket seems most likely. Amazon has a "rebuild" kit for my valve which I'm planning on ordering but I had a question on putting the new seal in. I've read some indicate...

Ok, I just read the deep clean instructions for sand filters and this is something I almost certainly need to do since my equipment is of unknown age and spotty maintenance history. My question is, the instructions were written for a top mounted MPV but my filter has the side mounted MPV...

Background - http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/96690-New-here-new-pool-owner-trying-to-absorb-a-lot-of-info-and-get-the-pool-going! Just as there was a glimmer of hope- http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/98844-Pressure-leak I now have a plan to resolve the leak, a short term immediate...

I tried to post this yesterday but apparently the forum crashed right when I hit submit. We went on vacation last week and the day after we left the person watching our pool reported that the water had gone below the skimmer openings. She added water but came back several hours later to find...

Hi everyone. We bought a house over the winter that has an in-ground gunnite/concrete pool. The house was built in 1973, and tax records indicate the pool was added in 1980 but I'm not positive about that. We live in Lexington NC (central NC). The pool had sadly been abandoned, the real PO...