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We just replaced our liner and just filled our pool. What chemicals should we add? Just chlorine, shock, and stabilizer?

I don't have a reliable test kit. We splurged on opening the pool this year and because of that, my husband won't budge on spending for anything else. I chlorinate my pool with tablets made for the skimmer. Thanks for your help. I'll make sure I SLAM before I close if we don't empty the pool out...

Hello everyone, I'm still pretty new here, I've only really been on here once in the beginning of pool season when I was having all sorts of issues. My main issue now seems to have something to do with the pump/sand. I have an all light blue liner with no pattern to it, so you can easily see all...

We have skimmer socks AKA the "pre-filter" already in our skimmer and use them basically 24/7. I also backwash when the jet stream is weak. The water is completely clear now! Still have the debris on the bottom of the pool, but I was told that this is normal and that I just needed to sweep every...

That's so awesome to hear that it doesn't look like mustard algae!!!!!!! Hopefully I can just keep sweeping and it will finally all get filtered out. I'm afraid if I go to my husband with one more pool related expense, he might just throw me out! I might have to cozy up to him over the weekend ;)

Well my question is: why is the stuff on the bottom of the pool coming right back? What is it? Is it in fact mustard algae?

This is what I cannot get to go away on the bottom of our pool. This is what it looks like dry. This is the filter we have. This is the pump we have. This is my story. Last year we had a giant algae issue. I don't think we ever got it blue and clear and there was NEVER a day where there...

Thank you everyone! I took pictures of all my equipment and pool last night. Should I start a new thread and post everything?

Hi, my name is Katie and my husband and I bought our house 2 years ago (August 2013). Since buying our house we've had nothing but trouble, with the pool AND the house :( As first time pool owners, we are very overwhelmed and have not a clue about anything. As you can guess, we are extremely...