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No. About 8 hours. Today it’s much improved. Alk at 90. Ph rose to 8.0 I added some borax and baking soda last night. Not as murky. It just needs to filter for a few days.

This is what happens when you get lazy over the winter. It’s murky but it’s not the worse I’ve seen. I didn’t cover so my water has been replaced, at least a foot. It’s basically rain water now.

I have a 21x43 with one skimmer. While it might not be ideal, this pool has been cooking along for 7 years with the same old waterway 2hp 2 speed pump. (Knock on wood)I do buy a new 200 sq ft cartridge every year. She lives under pine trees, and whatever else is in these hills. I run it wide...

I have clay, sand, and 1/4 inch hardboard insulation under my pool. Stable as can be 5 years running.

It is approximately 1/8 of a teaspoon

Yes for a week. Even stabilized is ok if your god on your stabilizer. If calcium is well into normal the plain tablets are good. 5 or 6 tablets either way won’t make it break the bank over one week. Continuously using the will however. Have fun and don’t sweat either method. A pool is no fun if...

Oh you know when you got chiggers. Lol. I know people who got them so bad they went to the er. Make you want to peel your skin off.

Snake mating balls ranks up there with most vile things on earth.

Wanna have a stroke? This is how you have a stroke. We have a manual open garage door. When my husband pulled it down one evening last summer a 5 foot black snake came down with it on top of him. 6’2” big man screamed like a schoolgirl and I believe May have cried a little. I was inside the...