I just bough my house and this is the first time I have evr had to care for a pool.At the begining of the year I had several problems opening ,due to the fact I had no...

Geez, I'm sitting here reading all this about stabilizers (CYA) and shocks and the way they interact, etc, etc, etc. I had no idea there such a precision science to...

For the first time the year, I shocked my pool (in ground, vinyl, about 12,000 gal.) with 1 lb Power Powder Plus. Before the shock, the chemistry measured fine -- 3 ppm...

i am not getting any chlorine reading when i test water for chlorine with reagent, nor do i smell any chlorine in pool. chlorine feeder (pentair model 300) is only 2...

I use 3" tabs, I am reading they are no good. (I have a 5+ reading).

I am thinking of switching to liquid chlorine a.k.a. bleach. How do I dispense it? Do I pour...

I always used granular chlorine in my above ground pool, but we just bought a new pump and when it started being very noisy 6 weeks later, I did some research online and...

There are a lot of terms thrown around for different uses of chlorine: shock levels, sanitizer levels, chlorine levels, CYA levels, etc.

Can someone put all this into...

if youa re useing a stabilized liquid or granular chlorine, should you have to add CYN or will the CYN in the chlorine be enough to maintain your levels, and only add...

Under what circumstances is chlorine bleach like Clorox, usable as a substitute for pool store purchased tablets?

So this is my current understanding, and im starting to think i maybe wrong, but currently we are perscribing customers with granular or liquid chlorine to use a dose of...

is it possible for a very large scale pool say a few thousand gallons,to maintain a good chlorine level with a high bather load and a single 3"puck dispencer, or is...

I have read that you should shock 1 time per week, heavy storm, etc. My question is, do I have to shock is my CC is less than .5. Or can I just shock at .5 or greater?...

We have a salt system. We had many people swimming in our pool on Sunday so we super chlorinated for 24 hrs. like we were told to do at our pool school. Now our chlorine...

Is I decide that I don't want to use pucks anymore due to CYA, what are alternatives to keeping chlorine levels up?

Im thinking of just pouring liquid chlorine...

I'm trying to figure out the cheapest way to get chlorine into the pool without adding CYA.

10% liquid chlorine - $2.75 per gallon

6% bleach - $4 per 1.5 gallons...

I have a 32 x 15' oval inground pool, 6' average depth (about 70,000 litre). I use a Hayward chlorinator and seem to go through a 3" puck every 2 days. I am curious...

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I took my pool water (24' round above-ground) to get tested at Leslie's. They told me that I needed to add chlorine tablets. Last season I used one of those plastic...

I have a above ground pool 24x54

This is my 5 yr of havin the pool and I wanna know does anyone have to put Chlorine tablets in there pool more then twice a day? I put...

Per advice given Monday (in the ph/alkalinity forum), 7/16, I've added CYA to raise my pool's CYA levl to at least 30 ppm from 0 ppm. As of today, Thursday, 7/19, I've...

Some background: 17,500 gallon AG pool, nine years old. No real problems. I test ~three times/week, and have pH between 6.8-7.4 (currently 7.0), Alk ~100-125 (this is a...