New Pool Owners

[kirby]

Lets see if i can keep this in order.

We added 6 lbs of stabilizer after the drain, (the "pool store" directed us). The drain was not complete, we had roughly 1.5feet of water left.

We have a working pressure gauge, so we will backwash as directed.

I will add the required 5.2 gallons tonight, and test in the morning to adjust back up.

Thank you for the help.

[PoolDoc]

It's much easier to answer your questions, when we have the details about your pool in one place. So, please complete our new Pool Chart form -- it takes about 30 seconds, but will save much more than that.

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Meanwhile, as long as you keep adequate chlorine in the pool (right now, that means 2 gallons of PLAIN 6% bleach in the pool EACH evening) and do not have metals in your pool water (from wells or trucked water, usually), you should be able to gradually move toward easy pool operations with no problems.