Hack My Pool

[proavia]

Do I get bonus points for using one of the “solos” from the laundry room? I have PLENTY of those!

Nope - you have to split a good pair.
Using a sole is akin to cheating.

 

[proavia]

Side note - before I found TFP, I was using Reddit to hack my pool. Those people really need to find TFP, stat. A guy just posted that his pool store said a CYA of 200 was stable, and he is now out over $1000 in chemicals and water trying to rebalance everything.

Unless you want to
Don't bother trying to convert them.
They aren't ready to be saved.

 

[PoolStored]

Do your blood pressure a solid...stay off of Reddit.

 

[JessBlount617]

CYA is floating in the pool by the return.



Since this takes a while to dissolve, I assume I manage my PH and FC the same as I have been. So measure daily, and adjust as necessary? Should I also measure my CYA while this floats (like over the next two days measure one time a day)?

 

[JessBlount617]

Unless you want to
Don't bother trying to convert them.
They aren't ready to be saved.

I think I’d have knocked my entire pool down and flooded the whole neighborhood by this point if I stuck with Reddit…

0 Stars. Do Not Recommend.

 

[proavia]

CYA is floating in the pool by the return.
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Since this takes a while to dissolve, I assume I manage my PH and FC the same as I have been. So measure daily, and adjust as necessary? Should I also measure my CYA while this floats (like over the next two days measure one time a day)?

Once the CYA is hanging in front of a return, consider it in the pool.
Your CYA was 30, you added enough stabilizer to increase the CYA by 20.
Your new CYA is 50.
Dose FC based on CYA of 50.

Start to squeeze the sock in about 30 minutes to dissolve the stabilizer into the water.

 

[JessBlount617]

Nope - you have to split a good pair.
Using a sole is akin to cheating.

Why did this make me snort laugh?!

 

[Newdude]

Those people really need to find TFP

I found a new way to recruit this weekend. Take your phone swimming, then go see the ifixscreens guy. Once he fixes it and is blinded by your sparkling pool lock screen, he'll be all 'Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang how do I do THAT ?????'

'Go meet my friends. We'll hook you UP on the cheap and easy.......'

*But my pool is above ground*

'Water is water my friend. The pool store will sell you hundreds worth of stuff you can buy at the grocery store for $10'

*rolls eyes*

'EXACTLY!!!! You clearly know the drill there. Lol. Go meet my friends'

 

[Mdragger88]

I found a new way to recruit this weekend. Take your phone swimming, then go see the ifixscreens guy. Once he fixes it and is blinded by your sparkling pool lock screen, he'll be all 'Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang how do I do THAT ?????'

'Go meet my friends. We'll hook you UP on the cheap and easy.......'

*But my pool is above ground*

'Water is water my friend. The pool store will sell you hundreds worth of stuff you can buy at the grocery store for $10'

*rolls eyes*

'EXACTLY!!!! You clearly know the drill there. Lol. Go meet my friends'

Same! sold a vehicle the other day- the guy’s wife immediately inquired about the pool and asked “how is it not green?
Its so sparkly!”
I said “Chlorine!”
I pulled up tfp pool school & walmart liquid chlorine on her phone for her (there was a language barrier)
Hopefully they find their way!

 

[JessBlount617]

Okay... riddle me this...

I have "figuratively" no rust in my pool - but I know there is some sitting in the tubes running from filtration, through sand filter, and back into pool...

Know how I know?? Because when I shut off the valves, and empty the little skimmer basket just before the sand filtration - and I kick everything back on - I get a lovely little cloud of rusty water shooting back into the pool.

Since these tubes are corrugated - I know there isn't a great way to clean them... much less detach them from the entire pool/filter etc... how do I get them cleaned so they quit dumping this little blast of rust back in?

 

[PoolStored]

One of these brushes may work (THIS IS A LINK)

 

[JessBlount617]

Huh.. fascinating as I have a brush just like that for my Turtle Tank... Did I mention I have turtles? Yep.. two of them... and they are just about as big of a PITA to keep their filters clean as this darn dang pool...

I wonder if I can clean that brush well enough to make it dual purpose - fresh water and chlorinated...

 

[proavia]

In PoolMath, share your logs to your forum account.
This will allow us to see your saved logs withput you needing to post results.

Try cleaning the tubes with a round brush. You can also try a solution of water and crushed up vitamin C tablets - but you will need to remove the tubes to do so.

Soak exiwting brush in a bucket of chlorinated water to sanitize.

 

[JessBlount617]

I have tried to figure out how to share Pool Math with my Account... is there a guide someone can link me to?

 

[JessBlount617]

Here's the public link: PoolMath Logs

Do I just put that into my signature?

 

[PoolStored]

Home screen --> gear in upper right --> scroll to bottom --> Enable sharing with TFP.

 

[proavia]

I have tried to figure out how to share Pool Math with my Account... is there a guide someone can link me to?

In PoolMath, click the gear icon, scroll down to Sharing, click first option - Link from TroubleFreePool.com user profile.
Your PoolMath email and password needs to match your forum account info.

Then when clicking on your forum prodile pic, you should see a blue "PoolMath Logs" icon.

 

[JessBlount617]

In PoolMath, click the gear icon, scroll down to Sharing, click first option - Link from TroubleFreePool.com user profile.
Your PoolMath email and password needs to match your forum account info.

This might be the issue.

I don't have the "Link from TroubleFreePool.com user profile"

 

[PoolStored]

Is your login to poolmath the same as your TFP login?

 

[JessBlount617]

Ugh... of course not... so I'll redo my PoolMath - that seems to be the easier path forward...