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No water softener. Plaster is 6 - 1/2 years old and isn't badly stained, except for the bottom step that are old pool vacuum used to go against and made a stained line all across the stair face. Maybe I need to rethink the acid wash at this time and wait until it is really horrible, and just...

Hello - Our calcium hardness is too high so we decided to get our pool acid washed after it is drained. The company doing it will also rebalance the chemistry when it is refilled. We have a salt cell so all I ever use is pool salt, acid, baking soda and conditioner. What order should we be...

Thanks Jason! I have some additional questions: ** It's been 9 days. Do I still need to run the pump continuously or go to a daytime only schedule? Still a little dust but does not look like much, filter pressure going to 20 every 2nd or 3rd day though. ** I don't believe any sequesterant was...

Ok - slight change of plan. We were going to start up the pool but the pool guy my plasterer usually works with did it. The pool has been filled with water for a week now. The first day (last Thurs) the pool guy tested water and added acid. He came back Saturday and added a gallon of acid. Said...

JasonLion - Thanks for the information! Just to clarify the TA and PH will usually start to raise at some point after a replaster so the step that NPC says to lower them beginning day 1 is a mute point? That seems to be the biggest difference between the two procedures (NPC and Traditional)...

Ok – We are going to try to open this pool ourselves but I have some questions. *Should I replace my old filter cartridges before we start running the pump or use the old filters until we get all the plaster dust out of the pool? They are pretty old so I think we should switch out for the new...

One more thing... the PB is the one who gave me the number for the two plasterers he uses so I could get quotes directly from them. He said if I wasn't adding water features or decking, etc then it was cost effective for me to go direct. He also said he would do the start up for free and if I...

It's January and we are getting ready to replaster next week. The plasterer usually works with a PB who does the pool start up but I showed him the NPC start up procedures and he thought they were fine. So, my question is is this something I can do (see above post for my skill level with pools)...

How difficult is it for a newbie at pool maintenance to do a pool start up after getting new plaster? We've had the old plaster chipped out this week and are going to have it replastered in January. Before we drained the pool we only cared for it for about 3 months so we are not overly confident...