Forum: Pool Chemicals & Pool Water Problems

Happy Update The story of this year's pool opening covers nine pages of posts in this thread. This is a new posting to make a long story short. ...

Hi, I am new to the forum and have been searching to see if there is a post that shows what brand of chemicals everyone prefers. The only pool...

Through the years the pool has been balanced.. it looks cloudy and I have to use DE (diatomaceous earth) to clear the pool of those tiny...

Hi, I had a serious green algae problem that finally subsided after six gallons of chlorine, brushing and numerous pool & filter cleanings....

Started winterizing my IG pool today. Grabbed a couple bottles of (what I thought) was Polyquat. Apparently one of the bottles was my "gizmo" from...

I dont know if anyone can help or if this is even the place to ask, I went to the pool store and bought some liquid shock and put it in the back of...

Hi, I am a complete newbie to the pool. I purchased a house recently and it came with an in ground pool. The pool was filled but contained some...

Opening up pool this spring, added about 10 lbs of stabilizer to my 29,000 gallon pool. Could not get my chlorinator to read the correct amount of...

I have a 16 X 28 above ground pool that I opened one month ago. Nobody has swam in it yet. Inside the skimmer at the water line I'm getting a few...

WE have been having some issues in the deep end with black stains, we tried the Vit C but did not really make a difference. It is a fairly new liner...

I have a in ground pool and the liner started getting black spots on it. I have scrubbed but that doesn't help. I have poured bleach galore and that...

To all of those that use the BBB method, Dollar General Stores have the 182oz jugs of 6% bleach on sale for $1.95. It is normally $2.95 They are no...

Just wondering if that more people realing that fact that bleach and pool chlorine are the same thing, but just at different strengths, has had an...

I started using Walmart bleach after coming across this forum, and am wondering what the 91.75% "other ingredients" are. I assume the major one is...

I have posted a couple of threads before on other forums - have got great help - but am still feeling my way through this pool-mystery! I have an AG...

Hello... how do I determine what strength (percentage) household bleach is? Checked the label and found no information as to the percentage.

I didn't know that you could use bleach in place of shock. Is bleach better that granular chlorine? It seems like everytime I use the granules, my...

I have had a heck of a year clearing the cloudiness of my pool and have posted about that issue in the algae forum. So I am fighting that. My...

We have a small inground patio pool, no more than 6000 gallons. The pool was very green. we have got it now that its blue and very cloudy. we keep...

Hello and thank you for this great resource! I've used the advice found here for several years but may need some first hand advice. I have a 30'...

Help!! Please tell me what I need to do to get rid of this blue cloudy water. I saw on here before I joined that some others had this problem and I...

Hi, I am a newbie to the forum. I have read through the posts to try to solve my problem but it still exists. I have blue cloudy water that has a...

what causes the blue water?

Earlier this season I helped my neighbor get his water issues straightened out. He has a 24K Gal IG vinyl pool with a cartridge filter treated with...

I am trying to run my pool with the 50 ppm borates, which I have added by adding borax to my pool. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if indicator...

I'm curious. Has anyone, in addition to Waterbear, added borates to your pool and what results have you experienced?

What are they specifically used for?

Have learned a lot here but I had a problem yesterday... I had a cloudy problem a few weeks ago and I shocked with chlorine to about 10+ (I do...