Forum: General Interest

Hi All, I got my kit from Ben last year and all is well. I emailed him about 400 times to get a username and password to the subscriber portion of...

Happy Memorial Day, everybody! Went to a pool party yesterday, had lots of fun, and came away with a free 60 sq ft DE filter with new grids!! The...

THere have been a lot of posts about plaster pools getting scale over the winter this year. It seems that some dirt has gotten encapsulated by the...

I wonder why no creative soul has developed a leak detection tool--a pole with a cable and a trigger--whereby a pool owner could lower it into their...

This is definitely off topic!! Anyone have a brilliant way for keeping your dog's urine from killing your grass? I've tried the "pills" from the...

Any one have Red Sox Tickets for Friday night they want to sell? My husband won an award at his company and we fly to Boston in the...

One of the guys I work with is just beginning to consider getting a pool and was picking my brain about deck options. I thought it would be cool if...

There's a large number of people affected by this and I bet some of us here are, too. On one of my cards is a charge fro $12.95 from something...

Get ready for a Nightmare Wife buys to be built Custom Home for 700K. It is a 3BR. The theater of our dreams will be on first floor as well as...

We recently had a bunch of rain, and consequently I've got like 20 worms in my pool. Do I have a moral obligation to perform CPR on these worms?

Hi all, While responding to this , I posted this idea. As I don't want to take away from ChuckD's question - I'm reposting it here. While I...

I work in an aluminum extrusion plant and we have an anodizing line, which is a chemical/water based line that etches, colors then seals the aluminum...

As some of you may remember, our property is very hilly. We have two plateaus. The house sits on one with a small parking apron and a 20' wide...

Any "Egg Heads" out there? I bought one today and it will be delivered this Saturday. Plan on using it Sunday for the first time. I have read...

Did anyone else have this happen to them? The foundation wall next to where all the trucks traveled in and out of our yard has a crack from a window...

I really don't want to lose contact with all of you knowledgeable pool owners but I am feeling increasingly vulnerable with Ben's absence. Should we...

I know there have to be a ton of others out there. I paid by PayPal back in August and have tried emailing Ben several times with no response. I...

Chem guy could you explain in a easy way why the salt the road crews usually dump on our MI roads don't work when it gets too cold? We have been in...

Have some good prices, but can't find any information on them. So has anyone done any business with poolproducts4less.com or...

I would like to be the first to say: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!! I extend a huge thanks to the ones who have helped me on this...

I've been reading and thinking about upgrading from my Intex Frame pool. I may have a grasp on the salt generated chlorine. Maybe a salt pool is...

Others have discussed using a large plastic sheet - obtainable at a hardware store - for doing a water replacement without a drain/refill. Since...

I bought around 20 pounds of Dry Ice (frozen carbon dioxide) for our Halloween party and wasn't very attentive at feeding the cauldron of water with...

We have a very small walmart in my local town and they had their Aquachem OTO/PH test kits (not strips) on clearance for $1. I proceeded to buy 3 of...

Hi all, Well, it's time to make a few changes around the house, one is going to be tearing the deck off and building a new one about 4 times as...

I was rather rushed the other day but happened by an isle of CYA Remover. It came in a large bottle. The label said it would remove "50 ppm of CYA...

I'm in the process of building a gunite pool with a firepit , both by the PB. The firepit is a "typical" circular type with natural gas. Is it...

Can anyone recommend a book on pool water chemistry, and possibly pool upkeep as well? Of course, it would need to correlate with the BBB method (in...