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Pool Clown..... We are very much above the water table. We are on a ridge with a small lake about 100 ft away and 30 ft below us.

Pool Clown... Above or below 'what' in Martinez ?

Hello.... First a quick thanks to all who helped me convert to BBB, yes I added Borax/Acid, months ago. Just yesterday I got another " it's so clear and SOFT " compliment. LOVE MY TROUBLE FREE POOL. We inherited this pool 6 months ago when we bought the house. We live in Nor Cal so we will...

EXCELLENT Borax/Muriatic acid RESULTS *** A GREAT :P follow up to my previous post. 2 days ago , in keeping with BBB, I switched to 12.5% bleach as my chlorine source. Also, 2 days ago, I did the scary part and added 12 boxes of Borax and the 3+ gallons of Mur acid. I precisely followed the...

Hi there, OK I'm another person who will do the Borate addition. I plan on doing it today :P . I have my 12 boxes of Borax ready and my 3+ gallons of Mur Acid. So..... HOW LONG after the last addition and wall scrubbing, can we go swimming. Also it was stated that the pH will need 48...

Thanks for your reply.... I just bought some 10% bleach gallons from the pools store, so I'll make the switch today. They have 12.5% is in 5 gallon drums , so 10% in gallons seemed more convenient. I am STILL curious if Caltreat works....... any opinions?

Hello... I am 1 month new to this site and very much go by your recommendations. My CH is 350 right now. My pool store guy said to not worry about using cal-hypo because if my calcium get above 400, just add Caltreat. I had read posts in FTP that are 2 years old, questioning this. So....what is...

Thank you both very much for your replies. Thanks for your simple truths of TFP vs "industry levels", and thanks for the 50/ 50 DW dilution suggestion. So I guessing I can ignore the " Don't go in the pool unless the FC is 4 or below" rule? , since my CYA is 70 ? **Also to add: my Phos is...

Hello, Thank you for this web site !! I bought a house a few months ago and a pool came with it. I previously had only a jaccuzi, but that made me confortable with chemical testing the pool. In going with recommendations of different sources, this site, other internet articles, I stopped...