Swimming pools blog

Hey I have only been doing pool maintenance for a month…but I am
really interested in this. Is there any seminars…for anything
happening in the AZ area ?

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Thank goodness, when we cleaned the cartridges this am we noticed the
basket next to the filter was clogged to the gills. We cleaned
everything out and a few hours later the green was gone. The pool is
now blue but cloudy. I’ve been vacumming out alot of leaf debris that
must have gotten in under the safety cover […]

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Last season I battled the dark green water for a month straight and
only won after I used some all in one chemical that I cant remember.
Shamefully I did not maintain the pool (24 foot above ground thatis
half in the ground) over the winter so once again the fight is on.
Lots of liquid chlorine, shock powder, […]

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I am so disheartened. We opened our IG 16 x 36 Monday afternoon. I
had nbever seen anything so green. Could not see bottom at all. We
poured the big container of liquid chlorine in, and 1 gal of algecide
(not enough I am sure) ran filter (cartridge) all night. Cleaned
catridges in am and […]

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Hi Ken, no I’m not looking for a safety fence just those resin 24″
fence kits to make the pool look enclosed. They hook onto the top
of the pool.
Hope you can help,
Thanks Rachel

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I’m trying to get our pool back in balance - we just had it built last year,
so this is out first spring. The alkalinity and pH were both very low, I’m
working on those (doesn’t pH == alkalinity/acid???? Why both readings? If
there’s a primer on pool chemistry on the web somewhere, I’d love to know
about it.
One […]

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Hello
I have bubbles coming into one of my return lines of an inground pool
I recently aquired.
When I try to vacuum the pool, it the pump loses it’s pumping ability
until I re-prime it. The water level is about 2/3 way up the trap
door and does not looses any water.
I’ve learned that this is usually an air […]

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hey all… am new here, and i have some serious questions!! lol. my
hubby and i just bought a house in december in southeast georgia.
the house has an inground pool. it is full of 5 years of muck. my
husband has super shocked it, and the water has lightened, and the
tadpoles in it didnt survive it. i […]

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Yuch! Just took the cover off the inground pool (we waited too long
this year) and the water is GREEN! As soon as the water level is up
high enough to start the pump, I will throw in the vacuum. Am adding
lots of shock and algaecide…what else?? This is the first year this
has happened…just got too warm […]

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Hi homeswimmingpoolowners,
This one is from the Netherlands (Europe).
I am renewing the solar collector on the roof of my garage.
The old one was made of 4 wooden pallets and was almost complete
rotten.
So I bought 4 new pallets, made of plastic. Size: 80×120 cm. Please
do the conversion yourself I […]

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