Hi, all.
Thanks to TFP, opening up my AGP, adjusting and maintaining its chemistry, and closing up shop have been a BREEZE. I'm ridiculously grateful for having found this place.
I was looking forward to opening my pool up later this month, but noticed yesterday that my cover cable busted (first time it's ever happened), and now all of the delicious goodness that's been sitting on top of it for however long has now gotten into my prized water below. I guess my cover pump will be staying put this year.
Anyway, no crystal blue opening this season.
I've mobilized to get the pool open in time for this weekend in order to begin correcting this mess.
About this, I have a couple of questions about the chemistry aspect of it and would also welcome any additional helpful feedback/suggestions outside of the answers to those.
Q#1:
Normally, when I open, I have to make some very minor adjustments to the chemistry to get all the parameters in line, the effects of which seem to keep things nicely balanced well through the season. Is trying to balance all the different aspects of this new cocktail's chemistry a good idea right now, or should I concentrate primarily on just sanitizing the heck out of it, then tweak the other particulars?
Q#2:
I understand that SLAM enjoys greater advantage when the water temperature is still relatively low (why I'm not sitting on this until later). I guess this question may depend on what I see in response to Q#1, but because I'm sure that, at some point early on, I'll need to beef up the stabilizer level after the winter break, assuming I'm holding off on balancing all that until I see some forward progress (i.e., "just sanitize the heck out of it" from Q#1), would it be better for me to add my liquid chlorine to the pool after sundown so as to minimize burnoff from the sun and allow the main consumption of the sanitizer to come about from the battle it's intended to carry out? I don't necessarily want to have my chlorine bound up, but I also don't want to lose any more than I have to due to that burnoff.
I should note that I'm aware that I'll eventually have to modify any after-sundown chlorine addition protocol to eventually start seriously evaluating OCLTs.
Of course, if any assumptions I've made are out of line with reality, possibly leading me to be asking the wrong questions to begin with, definitely let me know.
Thank you all, and looking forward to another season.
Thanks to TFP, opening up my AGP, adjusting and maintaining its chemistry, and closing up shop have been a BREEZE. I'm ridiculously grateful for having found this place.
I was looking forward to opening my pool up later this month, but noticed yesterday that my cover cable busted (first time it's ever happened), and now all of the delicious goodness that's been sitting on top of it for however long has now gotten into my prized water below. I guess my cover pump will be staying put this year.
Anyway, no crystal blue opening this season.

I've mobilized to get the pool open in time for this weekend in order to begin correcting this mess.
About this, I have a couple of questions about the chemistry aspect of it and would also welcome any additional helpful feedback/suggestions outside of the answers to those.
Q#1:
Normally, when I open, I have to make some very minor adjustments to the chemistry to get all the parameters in line, the effects of which seem to keep things nicely balanced well through the season. Is trying to balance all the different aspects of this new cocktail's chemistry a good idea right now, or should I concentrate primarily on just sanitizing the heck out of it, then tweak the other particulars?
Q#2:
I understand that SLAM enjoys greater advantage when the water temperature is still relatively low (why I'm not sitting on this until later). I guess this question may depend on what I see in response to Q#1, but because I'm sure that, at some point early on, I'll need to beef up the stabilizer level after the winter break, assuming I'm holding off on balancing all that until I see some forward progress (i.e., "just sanitize the heck out of it" from Q#1), would it be better for me to add my liquid chlorine to the pool after sundown so as to minimize burnoff from the sun and allow the main consumption of the sanitizer to come about from the battle it's intended to carry out? I don't necessarily want to have my chlorine bound up, but I also don't want to lose any more than I have to due to that burnoff.
I should note that I'm aware that I'll eventually have to modify any after-sundown chlorine addition protocol to eventually start seriously evaluating OCLTs.
Of course, if any assumptions I've made are out of line with reality, possibly leading me to be asking the wrong questions to begin with, definitely let me know.
Thank you all, and looking forward to another season.
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