aeration

Hi there! I live in central Texas, and it’s crazy hot. The water temp on my 7k-gallon pool is currently 96 degrees, and I’d like to utilize aeration overnight to cool the water. I bought a PVC waterfall/aeration setup on Amazon: Amazon.com I hooked it up to my return jet per instructions, and...

Hey everyone. I'm new to the forum. I'm heading into my fifth year as a pool owner but still consider myself very much a novice. For the first 1-2 years, I hired a company to do my pool care. Then, a neighbor taught me basic water balancing. I bought some test strips, and some chlorine...

Anyone know if it is a bad idea to partially block the skimmer to create aeration/CO2-degassing? The pump seems OK with it (i.e. not hot or making noises) and I get the desired aeration bubble coming out the return jets. I guess cavitation could eventually do damage, but I was thinking this is...

Hello, Last year I struggled a little bit with aeration. We have a 14000 gallon above ground pool at 24' round. With that being said there were times I needed to lower TA. I believe I read baking soda was a bad method as I think I remember people saying it can cause cloudy water. With that said...

Hello, After watching this video I tried/tested sticking the outlet of an industrial vacuum cleaner into the pool and that created a lot of turbulence (literally like a volcano erupting). ph is currently sitting at 6.8 (or thereabouts, it's a bit hard to tell as test is limited at this level)...

Living in Houston where my pool in August usually was 93-94F, I had tried all the aerating ideas from this pool cooling page and none yielded more than maybe 1F reduction. Cooling A Pool - Further Reading This year, because we wanted to reduce sun exposure for our baby in the pool, I bought 3...

I had a few questions for you guys. I read that aeration will help bring up PH if Using MA to drop it in regards to controlling alkalinity. So... I used a fireplace brick, cleaned it heavily, and tied an air chuck to it and ran the compressor to try to aerate the water to bring PH up. I've tried...