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Entries from September 2003

New filter old sand - how do I dispose of old…

September 29th, 2003 · 1 Comment

Spread it around trees but not small flowers. Any chemicals in the sand will
not hurt trees but may damage delicate flowers if the concentration is high
enough. Where are you going to put the DE when you clean the filter and when
you back wash it?

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New filter old sand - how do I dispose of old sand?

September 24th, 2003 · No Comments

Hi all,
I’m switching from a sand filter to a de filter.
What’s the best way of disposing the sand? Thanks
-a

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Some chemicals questions

September 18th, 2003 · 9 Comments

I have cloudy blue/green water that doesn’t seem to want to clear. I have
done the following to it:
- large dose chlorine shock
- bottle of algicide
- another dose of chlorine shock
- two slow release chlorine tabs into filter basket instead of one.
- added acid to adjust the ph
I now have correct ph but low chlorine count. […]

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A/G Closing Guide

September 8th, 2003 · No Comments

We recently published our yearly A/G closing guide to hand out to local
customers, as well as post on our internet site. Rather than waste bandwidth, if
anyone wishes a copy, please email me. Its general in nature.

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Chlorine

September 6th, 2003 · No Comments

As someone who has be swimming in clorine pool for21 yrs what could be
some side effect?
Keep The Faith
Retta
(-36)

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Add D.E. to a sand filter?

September 3rd, 2003 · 21 Comments

Anyone ever put D.E. into their sand filter to make it clean better?
What else can be put in a sand filter to get cleaner water, Perlite?

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On-ground pools?

September 1st, 2003 · 1 Comment

Anyone have an opinion of something called an on-ground pool? It
appears to be in-between an above-ground and inground pool - it’s
sunk about 2 ft in the ground and is 52″ deep. It has galvanized
steel walls/braces. The one we’re looking at is from Cente’ Key-West
pools. Thanks in advance for any comments.

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