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I'd check the size of the reagents you get with each test kit. The TF-100 comes with bigger size reagents to begin with than the Taylor version. I made the mistake of buying the one from Leslie's locally.

This is very similar to my post last year. http://www.troublefreepool.com/how-to-convince-your-so-or-others-that-bbb-is-safe-t16059.html After a couple months last year, I haven't heard another thing about it. I've gotten a lot of complements on my pool. In fact this year around the 4th of...

I think this should be a sticky or added to Pool School

Here is a really good post on Chlorine and how it works: http://www.troublefreepool.com/chlorine-cya-chart-t2346.html?hilit=chem%20geek Be prepared to get a headache if your not a chemist, although there is a tremendous amount of great information in it.

Here is another post about bugs in the pool that could give you some more information. http://www.troublefreepool.com/eating-my-words-better-than-bugs-t24141.html

My PH went down right after I added CYA, but it's since came back up on it's own. I don't know if Calcium Chloride would do the same or not.

Is it only along the seam there? It looks darker in the middle right along the seam to me. Could be a leak?

Is the place where you attach the hose at the skimmer above the water line? You can try removing the skimmer basket to see if that is causing a problem. Just my two cents, although I'm by no means an expert

I was thinking something along those lines. Just wondering if there was another way I might have missed or if somebody else had a similar problem and what they did to correct it.

I've never used it before or know where to get it. I got the PH Down to lower my PH because I figured it was a safer alternative than acid. When I hear acid I get a mental picture of Harvey Two-Face.

Just got a new house last year with a pool. The ladder has these white deposits on them that look like little beads. I'm assuming they are calcium since last year my CH was 210 and they were there when I got the house, so no telling how long they have been there. This year I got a new liner...

These like to sit in the front of my mom's house. They look mean about 2" long, but they are really non agressive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_cicada_killer

Hope Jay gets better. How old is he and how long where the two together? Hope it's not a case of broken heart/loneliness. Prayers are with you

I have problems with backswimmers, which are similar to waterboatmen, but they bite where I've read that waterboatmen don't. I haven't been bitten and don't want to. I've done a lot of searching and found that some people recommend BioGuard Back Up Algaecide to get rid of them, because it...

Meetings every weekend by the pool. Hello my name is George and I have Sparklypoolitis.

We're going to try to get our money back. We feel they should have seen the problem and not but the liner in.

Bama I just looked at it on the inside of the pool and can feel the part of the skimmer that should be on the outside. There is space between the liner and the wall around the skimmer. Hope that makes sense.

I wasn't planning on replacing it, but it seems I might not have a choice if we can't get it fixed and fixed right. It does seem to come out at a pretty good clip after it's been running a while, so I don't know if I'd be able to make it running overnight. Bama, I'll have to try that when I...

What makes this the most frustrating is that this is a brand new liner and it wasn't noticed until after the liner was installed. I know it's not really the liner installers fault, since their work is done on the inside of the pool. If I had known, I would have probably waited and put in a new...

I just measured what it would take to clean up the hole and it might be real close. I would have to cut the whole to 7"x11". I looked in a pool catalog and the outer dimensions are 8 3/8" x 14 1/2". The inner dimensions are 5 7/8" x 11 1/2". I also would have a space of about 2" above the...

That sounds great. I'll bring it up to the pool guy and see if he'll do it. I've never done that before so I don't want to ruin my new liner. This site is a great place to get a "second opinion" without having to call another pool store. At least they haven't tried to sell me chems yet. This...

It looks attached to the wall with those screws so it didn't put pressure on the liner. I don't think it's a wide mouth, how would that fix the parts underneath the skimmer. The frame around the top looked cut as well. Thanks for the advice, I want it to be safe but I didn't plan for any...

It looks like duct tape. One guy said there wAs a lot of duct tape when the took the old liner out.

He doesn't think it was the original skimmer and he's worried the cuts would tear out. [attachment=1:2v6msyz9]Skimmer1.jpg[/attachment:2v6msyz9] [attachment=0:2v6msyz9]Skimmer2.jpg[/attachment:2v6msyz9]

I kind of went through this on another post, but think this is the better place for it. First of all, I just got a new liner in last week and after I got it filled and turned on the pump, I noticed that the skimmer was leaking on the outside when the pump was on, but wouldn't leak when it was...

I like how you used the mini pool in the first couple pics as reference.. :lol: or were you rubbing it in to the neighbors. Very nice pool.

Just got back from wally world. They didn't have the big bags of baking soda and HTH's was only 96% and a lot more. To clarify I should take care of PH first and then TA. After lowering the PH, how long should I wait to try to raise the TA? Does the hour wait work here as well? Since they...

I know that you should shock when the CC is above .5, but didn't know if it was needed since I just filled the pool. I was planning on working on the PH and TA when I get the skimmer leak fixed. I just wanted to get some Chlorine in there before it turned green on me and was confused about...