Can someone please help me out. I am, again, pool illetarate. What is backwashing and how can i do it???

18 x 4 fot intex round vinal pool

Hello all,

I recently bought a house with a pool in Orlando. The pool is kidney shaped and holds around 16000 gallons.

By the time I got to working with the pool...

I recently purchased a home with a indoor fiberglass pool that had been neglected for some time, here's my problem. The pool was very low on chlorine, the water was not...

I have been fighting alot of algae, I have kept my chlorine above 10 and it has stayed elevated for 24 hrs on its own, I still have added more just to make sure all is...

My pool got ahead of me. I now have some strong stains on the pool walls. What do I do to get it under control ?

Ok, I had used floc and vacuumed algae out of pool...seemed as if I had gotton 95% of it out. Over the last couple days I have noticed a bit more on the bottom of the...

We have a salt system pool. Filter broke and it took a week to get it fixed. In the meantime we had a serious algae problem. Now the water is clear but about 20% of the...

ok theoretically, if some one swims in say a lake with algea in it and then dosent wash their bathing suit, then you go swim in a pool or hot tub with a low sanitizer...

First I want to thank Chemgeek and Backglass for all the great advice. I've been dealing with algae problems and was advised to use Dichlor.( I also needed to raise my...

Hello. I was wondering if Chlor Brite (Sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione dihydrate) is the equivalent to Dichlor. I have recvd some excellent advice for using Dichlor to...

I have been reading all the advice given to people who are fighting the algae problem and understand I need to keep my fac at atleast 10 ppm for 24 hours. I shocked the...

We have a big bloom of "something" going on in our pool. The water is cloudy with a sediment in the low flow areas that looks like fine sand with an occasional...

The CYA eading in my pool is low and I don't know what to do to raise it.

:? I posted a post in regards to keeping my skimmer basket down. I have seen that there have been several views but no help. Anyway, it is down now.

My question now is,...

I just purchased a home with a pool that is an above ground 15x33x4ft. deep. i took the cover off and started running the filter with a brand new cartridge. after a day...

We've had our pool for 14 years and have been using baquecil with not much difficulty other than the expense. This year everything was going fine until a few weeks ago....

We have had our pool for 2 years. We have a lot of green water this year, and this afternoon it went from green, to floating algae. How do we treat this with a salt...

OK, I shock my pool (18,000 gallons vinyl) every Sunday night with hypochlorite. I keep Trichlor 3" tabs in a floater at all times, anywhere between 1-3 tablets. I...

I think I might be paying the price for buying some cheap claifier at Lowes the other day. After putting it in the pool, I had algae within about 3-4 days. Can this...

I have some questions when it comes to testing for Cyanauric Acid. I'm supposed to see the dot disappear at the bottom of the tube but that never completely happens. It...