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Hi all- ::::Big sigh here:::: So, last week I saw a video on youtube where someone used a sock full of vitamin c to eradicate metal staining in his pool. I tried it in a small spot and it worked! I instantly went to amazon and bought a gallon of powdered vitamin C and went nuts. Dumped the...

So, it rained and mud ran into the salt water, inground, 33k gallon pool. Put some flocculent into the pool. Well, that was dumb because we have a cartridge filter. Did not know should not do that. We used the robot vacuum and it did get a bunch of mud out. Had to clean the catcher thing like 5...

Desperate need of help. I have a couple questions and need all tips u have. Backstory: Few weeks ago we got a new liner. As the pool was filling we saw the water coming out was brown. City water. Not well. Installer said to level the chemistry and run filter 24/7 a few days and we would be...

Not really a start but a reboot - after 600mm of rain, garden runoff etc, pool was DARK BROWN. Couldn't see the shallowest step, I just turned off the pump and chlorinator and waited for the weather to clear. First, I put the suction cleaner to work to try and remove some of the debris in the...

I'm trying to clean algae out of the pool. I added algaecide a day ago and just added floc to assist with the process of clumping the particles to the bottom of the pool. After pouring the floc I remembered that I was supposed to put the setting to recirculate instead of filter. The floc...

Hello guys. First post here. This is the second summer that I have had my pool. This summer has been a night mare trying to get the chemicals right. We’ve only swimmed in in once and I’ve had it opened for about 6 weeks. The chlorine will not keep. It hasnt gotten above 1 ppm if that. Most of...

I've just done the spring pool opening process, and actually it was in good shape this year (no green water or green stuff round the edges this year!). Previously (having first netted out any larger debris and vacuumed smaller settled debris to waste) I've added shock chlorine to the water...