Cool trick to get it out of the pool is use a wet/dry vac.

Next...sounds like a lateral is still either broken or not screwed in correctly because...

There sure is. I use a masonry sealer from Glaze n Seal. Laquer Sealer. It can be applyed with a paint brush, take great care as to NOT get any on...

If there is a planter just behind the pool wall it probably is leech. There is a way to combat it.
First, when most pools are gunited, the gunite is...

Yes it could cause a rise in salt level. However, the concern is what proportion to the water you add the same.

What you could do for the plaster surface, is what we do at Surface Renewal, have the tile cleaned by a professional pool tile cleaner. They would...

my pool is 2 years old and at the lower end of the steel wall started to rust and bled thru my liner and put a hole in 2 spots with in 4 feet of each...

I have CH about 550, so trying to postpone partial draining I am lowering PH to 7.4, added salt to 1500ppm. Salt is good to have in moderate level...

Oh yes, I did not even mention, that adding phosphates to a pool is really the last thing you want to do. It is what the algae feeds on. With...

Yes they do. Some of them use reverse osmosis which pretty much removes everything in the water. Earlier systems used various methods of...

If they "run down" the pool walls it is probably scale from the concrete or plaster. We often see this in pools built on a high water...

it is scale - and also if its larger flakes can be from the salt cell as well. KEep your pH lower - 7.4 and drop your alk a little bit.

Iron from fertilizer, worm pup, chunk of trichlor directly on the plaster and of course the iron content in the fill water will cause brown spots....

Is this a plastered pool? If so, when was it plastered?

I took my test to work and got a 380 CH using the stirrer. I even got one to take home. The girl in the lab had a junk drawer with old ones that she...

The lemony taste/smell is most likely from scented bleach.

For some reason, bleach makers have begun to add scents or flavors to bleach such as...

can you test your pool water and post the results

most likely cause is calcium, however without seeign the results is kind of like asking how long...

Its a bit of a major, however an acrylic rather than a cement based grout in your tiles will work a lot better than whta you currently have.
There is...