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    Acid Wash vs Jack's Magic for copper staining (suspected high CYA levels, what to look for to assess risk to plaster).

    Got called out to a customer's house where his plaster seems to have some pretty extensive copper staining (see pics). I went out for a different reason and didn't have the jack's magic stain kit, but there are blue stains across large swaths of his pool. I will confirm, but they appear to be...
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    Jacks magic #2 needed…will it work?

    We have a pool built and opened may 2023. Before plaster, an old irrigation line dripped through the concrete and subsequently the plaster which caused white streaks and marks in the blue plaster. Our PB told us to acid wash which we did this spring and everything looked okay (although the...
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    Ascorbic acid treatment and Sequestraint.

    I have been going through the process to remove some iron stains in my liner pool since opening. So far everything has worked great! After letting the AA recirculate without filter, a bunch of dirty sandy powder appeared all over the bottom of the pool. Anyone know what this is? Could it be...
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    Should I Dump My Water?

    Hi all, I had a stain that I couldn't remove from my pool wall, and after doing a Jack's Magic Stain ID test I determined that a Jack's Magic "O2 Safe Shock & Stain Solution #2 Treatment" should work. I went ahead and did the treatment about 10 weeks ago. Oh boy am I regretting it! The...
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    Suggestions for using Jack's Magic Copper and Scale

    Recently bought a house and it came with a pool. It wasnt kept up for a month or two, and it started to go green. So I shocked it and put in algaecide (maybe did this twice, and used 6-1 chlorinating tabs in between), and it seemed like the last time I did it the next day or two a really bad...
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    Jack's Magic - False FC Readings?

    Hi all, I did the Jack's Magic "O2 Safe Shock & Stain Solution #2 Treatment." In the instructions, it says that the treatment can produce false FC readings for 3-4 weeks and that I should use the TC readings during that time. I'm fine with this, but want to make sure I'm doing this right...
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    Jack's Magic Treatment - What to do after?

    Hi all, Using the Jack's Magic stain ID kit, I identified that their "O2 & Stain #2 Treatment" will (hopefully) remove staining I have in my pool. I started the treatment yesterday. It was a very large amount of chemicals to add to the water (you can view the chemicals involved here). I want...