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We purchased our 18' above ground pool from The Pool Factory and have been extremely happy with it.

I hard piped the pump and return on Tuesday and yesterday one of the unions was dripping when then pump wasn't running so I put some grease on the o-rings and repositioned everything to hopefully stop it once and for all. I also made a fountain that could be added to the return line to cool the...

I was wondering the same thing 440dodge440. I've notice my filter pressure drops about 5-6 PSI when I remove the eyeball from the return.

Me getting my hair done. Or putting the clean Aquabot bag on my head. Lol

I did the usual cleaning and adding chemicals this morning however this afternoon while I was running the pump one of the hoses popped off the return fitting! So after fixing that I made a list of things I would need to hard pipe it this winter when we winterized it. Brian

Welcome to TFP! You're much farther ahead of the game than we were we when opened our pool for the first time.

I have the pool rover jr and we like it thus far. While backfilling around the pool my 11 yr put a whole scoop of sifted soil into the pool on accident and the rover got it all. My only dislike with it is that the cord seems to get tangled up. Other than that we really like it.

Good idea Pooldv. I'll do it again right before bed. It wouldn't hurt it to come down some IMO but it shouldn't hurt anything being at that level though either I wouldn't think.

Good to know, thanks Duraleigh. We added bleach and let the pump run for a couple of hours. We just got done testing everything and this is where we are after the additional chlorine. FC - 6 CC - .5 CYA - 50 TA - 120 PH - 7.6 Water temp is around 88-90 and clear.

We had friends over today and lots of splashing from the kids happened so with rain coming this week I'll end up having to drain part of the water out anyway. After everyone left FC Had dropped to 2.5 which is not unusual. I bumped it back up to 6 and will check everything again at sundown to...

Ahhh, makes sense. Good thing we're supposed to get rain next week!

We've been having to add water to the pool about once a week due to evaporation because our pool gets full sun from about 9:00 AM until sunset so we can slowly reduce the cya if we need to that way and I don't mind draining some of it to achieve ideal numbers.

Duraleigh I've already removed them per your recommendation. I'm just waiting on the dispenser to dry before I put everything in the mechanical room for the summer. Good thing I bought some extra bleach this morning at Wal-Mart. :)

The tablets where part of a "synergy clear" package my wife came home with when we filled the pool and opened a few weeks ago. I'm curious if they add chlorine and CYA to the pool why could our initial numbers been FC -2 or less and CYA - 22-25. We've been using about 12 of the small tablets...

Currently I have no known issues with the water other than trying to get my FC up slightly. My water is crystal clear and chlorine usage is normal thus far. FC - 4 CC - .5 TA - 140 CYA - 52-ish PH - 7.5 My CYA was 25 or less yesterday so we added some to the pool via a sock with what the...

Hahaha!!! That's funny.

I can understand that. I swear my grasshopper will go up about any hill you can throw at it and not miss a beat.

I have a grasshopper 722D with a 61" deck and the Kabota diesel. It takes me around 4.5 hours in total but looks good when it's done.

Lol, nah. I usually the one mowing the 12 acre yard while everyone else enjoys the pool. :)

Thank you BoDarville. My TF-100 kit gets here tomorrow. I'm so excited to see where we are at on numbers. Here is our pool water currently. B

Wow, I missed this thread when I joined TFP. I had already ordered my kit by then though.

We bought our 18'x54" quest above ground from www.thepoolfactory.com . We are pleased with it so far. We ordered the upgraded liner, cartridge filter setup, aquabot and upgraded the wall thickness as well. Extremely pleased with their service.

Thanks Kim! Our FC is currently around 3 and we have tablets floating in the pool now so we should be ok. "Fingers crossed". Lol

I hope not either! I'm having to add a couple of inches of water today to the pool just because of heat we've had, hopefully everything will be ok until Saturday when the kit gets here and we can check it.

Kim - we watched the videos the other night when I ordered the kit. I have a little floating thing with about 10-12 pellets in it. When we opened the pool we also bought some Synergy Clear kit that had the pellets and something else with it from the pool store. I wasn't there but it's what...

Kim - thanks for the reminder! I have a TF-100 kit on the way! It should be here on Saturday and I'll be excited to see what some of the real time results are on our water. It's extremely clear at the moment however I'm always worried it's going to be off and won't be able to catch it in time.