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24 hours of skimmer basket sludge: WAY less dirty than last vacuum!: Looking good: Hoping the deep end stays clean:

FC: 24 (added some earlier) CC: 0.0 (yay!) pH: 7.3 (good to see this rise back up) CYA: 60 (surprisingly) about to vacuum...

Good news: FC only dropped to 21 this morning, and the pool floor still only has a little bit of dead algae. It’s certainly not covering almost the entire floor like last week! Bad news: it rained like crazy yesterday, so this was my first test since Monday night. Being home with 3 young kids...

This is what my PB receptionist mentioned, and that’s what got me thinking that maybe this problem I’m having is simply algae that’s not getting vacuumed properly, if at all. I may have been too impatient with my vacuuming (last summer I had 3 girls that were two years old or younger, so time...

The water has been pretty clear since last Monday after dousing the pool with 5 gallons of 12.5%, but I didn’t have any CYA in yet, so it’s effectiveness may not have been maximized. Now that I’ve properly SLAM’ed it (and told me wife no to swimming last weekend, that the pool wasn’t ready yet)...

Going to get a chlorine refill later today. Would it make sense or be a good idea to throw some DE in the filter at this point? I think the skimmer basket sock is helping catch some of the fine stuff, but I’m not sure if all the algae is actually being vacuumed up. It tends to at first get...

FC: 23.5 CC: 0.5 pH: 7.2 Water temp: 65 Looks like 2 of 3 SLAM criteria are there. Water is overall pretty clear, but there’s still a little bit of dead algae on the pool floor. Going to vacuum that up today and hope it goes away!

FC: 24.5 CC: 1.0 (whoa!) pH: 7.2 Water temp: 67 Should I keep testing TA often?

After breaking 3 Pentair blue/aluminum poles in 4 years (various lengths), I bought an 8-16’ yellow fiberglass Pentair pole (Rainbow EZ Lock). It’s easily the best & strongest pole I’ve owned. It had better be at nearly 3x the price of the cheap aluminum ones!

Our last liner had one heck of a divot due to the white part of our stairs (below for close up): And our new liner already has one. It looks like this white piece of plastic is removable. Can this be removed so it doesn’t punch a hole in our liner? Is there something else than can be used to...

Added chlorine earlier to get to 24 (0.0 CC). Will check one more time late tonight, but the pool is mostly under shade now (thanks to 25’ tall arborvitae trees lining our property). Its been raining most of the day and hadn't cracked 70 until just lately (pool water temp is only 67). Did a...

Other than a sudden clouding up after a week straight of heavy rain, the pool water has been pretty clear. It’s just all the junk on the bottom of the pool that’s been an issue. Had another heavy rain last night, so that’s going to change things a bit. I think the pool gained maybe 1” of water...

Evening tests: FC: 23 CC: 0 pH: 7.0 TA: 90 Should FC continue to drop overnight? Should I start a new thread in a different part of the forum?

Midwest Pool Supply, $12.99 for 5 gallon refills of 12.5%. That’s up a touch from previous years, but still a darn good deal. Edit to add: just got the TFP Pool Math app, and it says $0.162/oz.

Also, I’m not sure if guidelines have changed, but I has a great Pool Calc app on my phone (no longer works after the ios11 update sadly), and I used to shoot for 40-60 CYA and 4-6 ppm chlorine. 12.5% chlorine in 5 gallon refillable jugs is pretty cheap at my pool store ($2.75/gal), so using...

Ewwww... whatever came out of the pool ended up looking like mud! So in my 5th and final year as a pool owner, this is really the first time that I’ve had any major algae/water quality issues. Earlier this week, the water got cloudy for the first time, and dumping 5 gallons brought the water up...

Morning levels: FC: 4.0 CC: 0.0 pH: 7.0 Added CYA & chlorine very early in the AM, and thankfully it was pretty overcast & dreary today until just about now, so 10 hours out of sunlight. Afternoon readings (10 hours after treatment): FC: 25.0 CC: 0.0 pH 7.0 CYA: 70 Just vacuumed, and did...

This was an accident, as the old pH test must have been off or pH was temporarily too high from dumping 5 gallons of 12.5% chlorine in earlier this week. I’ve been trying to vacuum to waste, so havent added any CYA yet. I didn’t want to just dump it into the street if I needed to vacuum further.

Picked up refill chems for my Taylor kit this afternoon. Opted not to get new calcium test reagents, as I have a vinyl liner and was told I didn’t need to test for calcium. If I do indeed need those, I’ll grab them next week. FC: 4.0 CC: 0.0 pH: ~6.8 (put in a gallon of acid this morning) TA...

After vacuuming, I set the filter valve to recirculate, to figure out if it was a filter problem (ie stays clean = confirmed filter problem). The pool has accumulated more... sand or whatever it is since yesterday evening, and has gotten dirtier throughout the course of the day today. PB is...

This is the floor of the deep end not even an hour after vacuuming! A close up of the skimmer vacuum cover plate. Not really sure what that is on there.