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We had a red oak fall and crush our 24' Esther Williams pool that had been installed in 1997 (which except for faded paint was in perfect condition). The pool came with the house when we bought it, so now we're entering the land of first time buyers. We live in New York near Lake Ontario, so...

So I'm in the same boat. We've been keeping the pool at SLAM level for 2.5 weeks now and you still can't see the bottom of the pool, and progress in clearing seems to have stopped. With a hair net you can see that some bleached out dead algea are still floating around, and even with DE...

We're replacing our wooden deck with Composite and it looks like we need to take the Coping Rails off our pool in order to do that. But I can't figure out how to remove the coping cover caps. The screw is just spinning in place with what looks like a nut that is located inside the post. Its hard...

Hi, I'm just reordering CYA testing chemicals and like everyone I hate and loathe the turbidity test. I was doing a quick search through google scholar on whether there are any other methods available, and through my University library access I was able to read this 2014 paper on a visual test...

I was looking up resources and found this helpful lit-review of studies. Looks like properly maintained pool would zap it in 10-20 minutes, or at least during a slam, but I might be reading this wrong. “The same study showed that chlorine was more effective than chlorine dioxide in inactivating...

Hi, You guys have all been super helpful with loads of other questions I've had, so I hope someone can help me here, too. I recently completed a SLAM (Algae or pollen? (Lots of pictures)) see there for the progress). I added DE to my sand filter following the instructions from pool school. My...

I just started a new SLAM because I suspected Algae. Relevant stats are: Pre SLAM PH: 7.4 CYA: a bit less than 40 FC: 16 I got too busy working on renovation stuff and just got to testing my water at 1:20 AM (I had added one more FC on a hunch at 9:00PM which got me right on the money for 16...

::edit For anyone looking at this thread for answers to what is in your pool: I have since figured out that it is algae! So, if your pool looks like mine you probably have algae, not pollen. Hi all, I've read through a bunch of posts and am trying to figure out if I'm dealing with Algae or...

Hi guys, i I just got a little dilemma: My winte cover ended up on back order and won't arrive until Tuesday. I could just go ahead and do the necessary procedures now and just go back with a leaf net on Tuesday and then put the cover on, leaving the smaller junk in the bottom for the winter...

Hi, I'll be closing my AG pool for the first time this winter and I had a question about draining. I'm in one of the highest snowfall region in the country (Upstate New York by the Lakeshore) and the average snowfall here is about 100 inches a year. I found some numbers saying that this will be...

Hi, i started my pool about a week and a half ago and added enough CYA to get the levels up to 35. My kit came in last Thursday and I measured a CYA of about 30 (dot disappeared with full tube). We had some rain and I backwashed my filter once, taking maybe 2 inches out of the 45 inch water...

Hi all, I purchased a major fixer upper house last year with a terrible swamp in the back: We deemed this hopeless, but given that we had many other rooms to work on we just now got to fixing it. We tore out the liner, re-leveled the sand , and bought new pump, filter, skimmer, and ladder...