Greetings from Dallas, TX!
I will have lived with my pool for three years in April. It’s a 26000 gallon vinyl Grecian with two ladders. I grew up with a pool and my dad and I did the maintenance ourselves - I handled the backwashing, brushing, vacuuming, etc and he did the chemicals.
Therefore, I am here to find the least expensive and least time-consuming way to maintain the chemical levels in my pool. The pool at my parents house is plaster and they use cal-hypo so naturally I used it because I didn’t know of other options. Sometime during year 2 of owning my own pool, I learned that cal-hypo is a big no-no in vinyl pools so it was recommended by the pool store to switch to dichlor - they didn’t tell me it was stabilized so I was using trichlor tablets and dichlor shock for about 15 months - leading to extremely high CYA.
I’m over the constant drives back and forth to the pool store to get tests done and I’ve been working on lowering CYA thru water replacement to get everything back into shape.
Looking forward to learning lots from this community!
I will have lived with my pool for three years in April. It’s a 26000 gallon vinyl Grecian with two ladders. I grew up with a pool and my dad and I did the maintenance ourselves - I handled the backwashing, brushing, vacuuming, etc and he did the chemicals.
Therefore, I am here to find the least expensive and least time-consuming way to maintain the chemical levels in my pool. The pool at my parents house is plaster and they use cal-hypo so naturally I used it because I didn’t know of other options. Sometime during year 2 of owning my own pool, I learned that cal-hypo is a big no-no in vinyl pools so it was recommended by the pool store to switch to dichlor - they didn’t tell me it was stabilized so I was using trichlor tablets and dichlor shock for about 15 months - leading to extremely high CYA.
I’m over the constant drives back and forth to the pool store to get tests done and I’ve been working on lowering CYA thru water replacement to get everything back into shape.
Looking forward to learning lots from this community!
