I am beyond frustrated with my green pool. I opened my pool 1 week ago and as usual it was green with algae. Usually I use the standard pool opening kit, shock, brush...

Hello,
I have a Starbright SF-40 sand filter with a faded label identifying the multivalve positions. Does anyone have a description ofthe locations or pewrhaps a...

Look to see if anyone has used the BioGuard Spot Kill or might know if this product is good for Black Algae use. The guy at the Pool store told me that it was "the...

I recently purchased a home w/ an above ground pool. The pool is in excellent shape, however, the previous owners did not ever cover the pool. We live in PA so the pool...

Ok so I have been trying to open my pool since mid april. It is an intex above ground pool 16ft x 48 in running a cartdrige filter with a SWG. Since this time I have...

Ok so I started Cleaning my pool on Friday 5/27/11. after about a year of neglect from my family

It Started off like this

and now it looks like this (taken Monday...

I've been trying to brush this away for weeks and the stains don't move. I showed these pictures to the guy at Leslies, he told me to squeeze a lemon on it to see if it...

We are new to pool owning and are learning as we go. I removed the cover to open the pool for the season and low and behold.... Algae!

I filled the pool up to...

Everywhere is written that the most important thing is to balance the water and said the alkalinity should be between 80-120 ppm.
All the tester i saw measure the...

If you use the 3 in 1 chlorinating tablets, do you still have to add algaecide?

I have been dealing with an issue for over a couple of years. It is a very intermittent problem. Last year I had what looked like a speck of dirt that ran and left a...

I look after a Pebbletec pool a large top pool with a waterfall into a smaller pool which had to be emptied recently as it had some cracks in it. The Pool was refilled...

I was told that it is advisable not too go into a pool for 24-48 hours after a Chlor-Brite shock and it could cause blonde hair to turn green among other side effects.....

I have a regular sand filter inground pool with 24-26k gallons. I am used to it but am considering of putting either a salt system chlorinator or not putting it and put...

Hi everyone, my water in the deep end is green. Last night it was dark green with little to no visibility of the drains, I used 7 quarts of Aqua Treat, and this morning...

My Dad put a gallon of algicide into a 15,000 gallon pool. Now there is a layer of foam over the entire surface. How do we fix this. Any help would be appreciated.

Ok so I had my pool drained then acid washed last march... Not long after I started seeing black algae in various places on the plaster. Im not sure if that caused the...

Hello- new person here. I live with my daughter and son in law and we just moved in to this house which has a pool. None of us know the first thing about pools- except...

We are taking down our Intex pool for the winter. We were unexpectedly gone for the last part of summer so we had a bad algea problem. We drained the water and now have...

Here we go, after moving into our house 18 months ago, we have had nothing but problems as did the prior owner for the last couple of years.

We found almost all...