Hello all, I am so excited to have found this site! With no research whatsoever, and just a stubborn dose of common sense tempered with a healthy frustration with the $$$ spent at the local Leslie's over the years, this week I started to dump generic Clorox into the pool. Now I found the site and realize that in fact I may not be a complete crackpot! Now I just need to do it right. I fired the pool guys a year ago and have been managing the pool by trial and error (only recently started using "strip testers"), to medicore results- I think the only success I have had has been due to brushing the pool every day while swimming with the kids and lots of elbow grease (vacuming, etc). I want to learn how to approach this more scientifically, using a proper test kit, and the BBB method. I would like to try to get the pool more balanced this weekend, and will need to go to Wally world to stock up. If I could some general shopping list help, that would be great. Assume I am completely clueless. I'm not even totally sure how many gallons my pool is! I've done some searches but honestly don't really know what I am searching for. Here's some info:
In ground kidney shaped pool, about 40' x 14' 6.5' deep in deep end, 4' deep in shallow end.
DTE filter 60 SF, in line tablet (chlorinator?)
Single speed pump, on 24/7
Gunnite (starting to deteriorate, I have what look like golf-ball size "fingerprint" indentations all over it that algae loves to grow in
Green algae sometimes (just brushed a ton of it off today)
Gooey Black algae spots, all over cant seem to scrub them off
Hot, hot Texas location, lots of trees but in sun most of day
monkey kid swimmers all the time, dogs and even a Guinea Pig
help...... :?
In ground kidney shaped pool, about 40' x 14' 6.5' deep in deep end, 4' deep in shallow end.
DTE filter 60 SF, in line tablet (chlorinator?)
Single speed pump, on 24/7
Gunnite (starting to deteriorate, I have what look like golf-ball size "fingerprint" indentations all over it that algae loves to grow in
Green algae sometimes (just brushed a ton of it off today)
Gooey Black algae spots, all over cant seem to scrub them off
Hot, hot Texas location, lots of trees but in sun most of day
monkey kid swimmers all the time, dogs and even a Guinea Pig
help...... :?