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Thanks for the info. I used to have one years ago but don't know why I quit using it. Proably when I went to chlorine.

Converting to salt is not exactly cheap, It's payoff is several years, it's something else I have to take care of, and I'm 83 years old living alone and not sure how long I will live here . The local pool company I deal with quoted me a price for a Haward system that from what I read was...

Thanks for the info. I had read the info about not using the chlorine feeder elsewhere when looking for info on the cal-hypo pucks. I'l look into the cal-hypo puck feeder. I didn't know cal-hypo pucks existed until Monday. One of the other problems with the chlorine feeder, at least the one the...

I currently have a chlorine tab feeder in line that was installed before I everf heard of TFP that I haven't used in years and it never worked very well. It was still a matter of adjusting the dial so what is the diffeence of putting 3" pucks in the skimmer and figure out the usage rate? When I...

Because of the recent scarcity and high cost of liquid chlorine I have been using cal-hypo for the last two years. I looked into converting to salt, but for various reasons decided not to. The only problem I had was the residue left from the filler even when I mixed it with water. I see now that...

I'm using cal-hypo 63% to maintain my pool. When I say chlorine is expensive, at Home Depot where I normally buy chlorine, its is $24.98 for 3 128 oz. jugs a around 8%. Before the chlorine shorrage it was $7-8. I read 2 other thereads about using cal-hypo and some of the sggestions are not...

As hurricane activity is ramping up in the Atllantic, if I lose power for extended time, can I maintain chlorine levels by adding cal-hypo to pool and brushing? I'm no longer using liquid chlorine because of cost and lack of availability. Even if I bought some liquid chlorine and dumped it in...

"I would not be surprised to find out an swg system costs more than non swg, but not that much more." That's the first I've heard of that. Would you please elasborate? Thanks.

I finally deletd the app on my phone and loaded it again and now I get what you have. I've also have found the vertical installation kit for the SJ + series and think I can get it to work if I can get my brain to picture it. Here is a pictue of my setup. I think I can raise the vertical...

I never paid much attention to the Now that I have spent more time looking at the various systems in the Circupool Universal systems because of the 4 year warranty. I spent some time this weekend looking at the different systems and with the "buy the Highest SWG for $1 for the RJ 60 + and the...

I never paid much attention to the UL systems because of the 4 yr warranty. I spent some time this weekend looking at the different systems and with the "buy the Highest SWG for $1 RJ 60 + UL 55 and the core 55 and RJ 60 are only $100 apart whereas the UL 55 is $400-500 cheaper. That makes the...

I can't find any SWG UL40 or UL55 The things I had to figure out is what device would be relatively easy to install. I looked at the rj45, the rj45 plus, and the core 55. Although the core 55 looks easy to install I don'w have enough horizontal pipe to put it where I'd want it and I'd have to...

Lots of good ideas and I see no reason not to install it myself. I've glued many a pvc pipe and am handy around electricity. Now all I have to do is figure out what swg system to buy. Circulon sounds like a good deal but I wish that there was an explanation of the table headings and the * column.

By that I meant the cost of moving from chlorine to salt and that is more than $2000. It's also a matter of how many years does it take to pay for itself and that is going to depend on what it cost, something that can be known vs. the unknown cost of chlorine the next few years. Going to salt...

If I recall correctly, I think I read at Leslies Pool supply where I get the Cal Hypo that it raised the PH. All I know is that I bought much more muriatic acid last summer using the cal hyo to lower PH than when I was using HDX chlorine from Home Depot and rarely had to adjust PH. At times last...

Thanks so much for your thourough reply. I have a lot more research to do now. Regarding iron, the liner is stained enough that I doubt I'll do anything about it now. I will need a new liner in a year or two, or after I pay for a salt water conversion. I wonder why my pool company didn't...

Last year it was very difficult and expensive to get chlorine and I swtched to Calcium Hypochlorite. At the time it was about $150 for a 50 lb. bucket. Now it is $280 and who knows what it will be when demand increases at the start of pool season. I have an estimate of $2042 for installation...

Assuming unavailability of liquid chlorine why would you have have to partially drain the pool if you used cal hypo since it contains no CYA? Also CH is not normally a problem for pool liners but how about for gas water heaters? Would it tend to gum up the pipes over time?

Unfortunately I didn't know the suggested way to use the CYA test as described by aussieta above and I'm afraid that my liner has now been bleached. That may also be why my pool water looks different than it did before because my bright blue patterned liner is now a mostly solid pale blue. I...

I had mentioned that my cya was 35-40 looking at it under cloudy conditions. Yesterday I checked it under sunny conditions as suggested by Aussieta and it looks like 0. I don't know how that can be since I used about 9 of those pellets while traveling within the last 9 weeks. At 0 the pool...

Ok. Cleaning will be fun in 40 degrees<g> The real question is why did the overnight drop test show 0 drop? So am I supposed to keep shocking until there is no drop and the water is clear?

I took the cya reading at the edge of the deck in natural cloudy light. If the light had been brighter I would have had an even lower reading, right? I hear you about the brushing which I did after 2 days and I'll do it again Friday after slamming it again tomorrow. Thanks.

I took the pictures about 11 a.m. today and I don't see anything resembling a greenish tint that I thought I saw at 8:30 a.m. now that the sun is on it. In the sun it may not be easy to see the difference but both my lady friend and a guest we had for lunch said the deep end looked...

An unexplainable algae problem. On Sunday 11 I1 tested my FC and it was 4.5. I didn’t test it again on Monday morning because it had not been dropping because my water temperature was 57.5 degrees, it was raining , I had no chlorine on hand and was getting some on Monday. However, I did walk...

In the pool closing sticky it states the following: "Two or three days before closing, I bring the pool up to shock level and hold it there until FC holds overnight (which it generally does right off on the first night). Then I let the chlorine level fall about half way back to normal levels...

That is interesting. I had always heard that getting water behind the liner was a disaster and that is why they put in an overflow. Is it not a problem for you because you have concrete behind your liner? There are posts at the site that discuss getting water behind the liner and how to get it...

Not likely since the only thing at pool level is a flower garden on one side of the pool separated by a 3' concrete walk that slopes back toward the flowers. It gets minimal fertilizer and hasn't had any recently. It is something I hadn't thought of though. Also my chlorine was still in the...