WOW!! Well that pretty much sums it up. NO MORE E3!
Test kit is ordered due to arrive Tuesday. Will do a partial drain then slam. I'm sure i'll be asking a thousand questions to make sure i do this right.
I used E3 bc the previous owner lead us to the pool management company they had been using. I had never owned a pool and knew nothing about caring for one. E3, tabs, non chlorine liner safe tko shock, formula 500, and liquid chlorine was the system he put me on bc when we opened the pool after purchasing the home he realized the previous owner had not opened the pool in 2 summers and had a mesh cover = literal swamp! But without draining he helped us get it cleaned up. The following summer the wood wall in deep end caved in and whole pool collapsed. So we had to pull the pool out of the ground and rebuild it to a steel wall frame set up on enormous concrete footings. The build was finished in the month of July so that first season we had a great summer of swimming. The following summer, the polaris line blew, and after our 4th of july party i came outside in the morning to a half empty pool. Devastated to say the least. Found out the kids were using the noodles as geysers to have a water noodle fight,,, they were pressing the one end of the noodles up against the returns very forcefully so all the water would shoot out the noodles at one another. The pressure backed up and blew the line. We plugged it up and have been hand vacuuming ever since, now looking into a Dolphin. Through all this, i had never changed the water care method, big mistake. I had two good opportunities to start with fresh water but didn't even realize what i was doing so back in went the metals and nonsense. Now here I am again with a mess and haven't put one toe in the water this season. We have been though so much with this pool stuff. Its about time we get things right and just enjoy our investment. Thank goodness for this site. You have been a tremendous help. Just two weeks ago i was totally lost and upset. Now i understand things, i realize how much i need to learn, and i have a plan to hopefully fix this. Fingers crossed i don't screw it up. And if this is all resolved i better head straight over to my neighbor to ask her to take down the half dead pine tree that looks like its going to land directly in my pool every storm that passes through!! With our pool luck so far, i can't take any chances on that LOL!!!
Now that i have written my novel on TFP,,,,,,,
Test kit is ordered due to arrive Tuesday. Will do a partial drain then slam. I'm sure i'll be asking a thousand questions to make sure i do this right.
I used E3 bc the previous owner lead us to the pool management company they had been using. I had never owned a pool and knew nothing about caring for one. E3, tabs, non chlorine liner safe tko shock, formula 500, and liquid chlorine was the system he put me on bc when we opened the pool after purchasing the home he realized the previous owner had not opened the pool in 2 summers and had a mesh cover = literal swamp! But without draining he helped us get it cleaned up. The following summer the wood wall in deep end caved in and whole pool collapsed. So we had to pull the pool out of the ground and rebuild it to a steel wall frame set up on enormous concrete footings. The build was finished in the month of July so that first season we had a great summer of swimming. The following summer, the polaris line blew, and after our 4th of july party i came outside in the morning to a half empty pool. Devastated to say the least. Found out the kids were using the noodles as geysers to have a water noodle fight,,, they were pressing the one end of the noodles up against the returns very forcefully so all the water would shoot out the noodles at one another. The pressure backed up and blew the line. We plugged it up and have been hand vacuuming ever since, now looking into a Dolphin. Through all this, i had never changed the water care method, big mistake. I had two good opportunities to start with fresh water but didn't even realize what i was doing so back in went the metals and nonsense. Now here I am again with a mess and haven't put one toe in the water this season. We have been though so much with this pool stuff. Its about time we get things right and just enjoy our investment. Thank goodness for this site. You have been a tremendous help. Just two weeks ago i was totally lost and upset. Now i understand things, i realize how much i need to learn, and i have a plan to hopefully fix this. Fingers crossed i don't screw it up. And if this is all resolved i better head straight over to my neighbor to ask her to take down the half dead pine tree that looks like its going to land directly in my pool every storm that passes through!! With our pool luck so far, i can't take any chances on that LOL!!!
Now that i have written my novel on TFP,,,,,,,