Forum: Pool Chemicals & Pool Water Problems

Maybe I'm getting picky, but I have been wondering whats going on with my water for some time now. Overall the water is perfect. I do deal with ph...

We have an IG gunite 13,000 gal pool, which was resurfaced in Feb with a quartz-type surface. The pool guy handle chemistry for the first month and...

Hi! A problem keeps showing up when I take water in to be tested and they or I can't figure it out. They use Pinpoint testing and when they do the...

I have in 25K Gallon IG pool that we have inherited when we bought our house 8 years ago. The pool was a bromine pool when we moved in and we...

Hello,I sure need some help figuring out what is going on with my pool water. I have spent in the last two weeks about 300.00 from listening to the...

I bought mort*n salt system saver II for making the water nice. Is this pure enough because they promote it as having some resins in it? Is it OK to...

Do I need this stuff ???? i have an Inground Vinyl Pool thats 32 x 16 3 ft shallow end going to 8 ft deep end pool store tells me i need it...

Hello! my husband has really messed up our pool! We came home today and it was black!! the liner is black and the shock he put in the pool is black...

Is there any advantage to using copper sulphate in a low dose. I know people who have done this and swear by it to make their pools "sparkle". ...

Hi guys, Yes I did take my sunglasses off :) Fiberglass pool just got repainted with gelcoat. After 3 days I decided to start the filling...

Hello, I have a moderatly cloudy pool. The shallow end looks clear & in the deep end you can still see the drain. This happend beacuse my...

Greetings, I have a 26,000 Gallon IG that I inherited 7 years ago when I bought my house. The pool was 8 years old at that time and is just...

It is around the water line in the thru-wall skimmer and wipes off with a terry towel but comes back within days. I used a scum ball in the skimmer...

A local BIG water company announced that they were going to switch from using chlorine to using chloramines (they call it a mixture of Chlorine and...

I wanted to post a picture, but I'm not sure how... Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on whether what I have is sand or algae. It appears...

After wasting some water from our above ground pool due to ALOT of rain, when I switched from waste to filter, a big puff of cloudy dirty water went...

Somewhere I acquired a large container of Leslies Oxidizer 2, which is sodium persulfate. I searched here to see what it was, and it had no...

Although I have not previously posted, I wanted to thank all the great people on these Boards. :) Here is the situation: I incurred my first...

I recently notice small air bubbles from the water flow leaving the filter going back into the pool. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Hello all, I've been searching, but can't find the answer.... I dissolved CYA in a bucket of warm water 2 pounds at a time using a drill and a...

I ran out of the CYA Reagent for testing CYA levels, so I went to the pool store to have my water tested. They said I had less than 10ppm CYA, so I...

This is my first year with our new inground pool. I'm having some problems keeping my water clear and with a light yellow stain that appears from...

Hey all, I got the winter debris out of the pool, and have been keeping the cl up to shock level going by the chart, but water is still a cloudy...

I have an IG 20,000 gallon pool, using a sand filter. Last year I didn't have to backwash very often once my pool was up and running. I did it maybe...

I have a 16'x32' doughboy AG. 13000 gal. I'm trying the BBB method. 2 days ago everything was where it should be. Today after 1/2" of rain, my...

I had a bad outbreak of algae about a week ago. I think it was due to adding too much cya. Anyway.. I have shocked it pretty good with plain bleach...

On a daily basis I have some small piles of debris (I'm assuming/pretty sure it's algae) on the bottom of my pool that "poof" when I get near them...

Please help!!! I am two weeks before my daughter's 16th birthday Pool party and have been working on my pool for 3 weeks. It started out really...

I had a pretty severe algae bloom this spring, due (a little) to extraordinary rain levels in N Texas, and (a lot) a pump out of service for a bit. ...