New and Trying It On My Own and Nervous

gmw626312

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May 14, 2025
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Good morning! I'm so excited to find TFP! We've had a pool for 3 years now and it's been a nightmare. Our pool installer was awful and ended up going bankrupt and losing his company. We continue to just pay other pool companies to help because of our lack of knowledge and confidence and after going through 4 companies doing just mediocre work and charging way too much money, we are trying to take care of things ourselves this year. We did pay to have someone open it but the floor is still extremely dirty and they only added chlorine so we have to vacuum and add more chemicals ourselves. It's a saltwater pool. I'm hoping to learn what to do as we are starting from scratch not knowing much.
 
Welcome and hello.
Your nightmare is over. I tell all my neighbors with pools TFP is the holy grail of pool ownership.
If you haven't yet explored these items please do. You will read on many threads here that SWG's when dialed in and with a little OJT are very little work.
Pool Care Basics
Test Kits Compared
FC/CYA Levels
PoolMath
 
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