Thanks for bringing back the joy!

[Watermom]

I am going to continue to take my water in for testing once a week or so just to be on the safe side.

Better yet, get a good test kit and test the water yourselves. The one Ben sells at www.poolsolutions.com is the best you can buy and the one that most of us use. Definitely worth the money! Enjoy your pool.

[drumr]

The first year I had my pool I dealt with algae, cloudy water, and other things we all fight. Even though the store we bought the pool from had a "pool school" for new pool owners the information was at best vague, because they sell so many different kinds of pools they keep the information very general. I found poolsolutions.com a month before I opened my pool on the 2nd season and couldn't believe the BBB method. I asked the evironmental engineer at my workplace about the chemical names Ben referred too and asked him if it all made sense and sure enough he said it did. So I opened my pool and introduced the BBB method to it and have had sparkling water ever since. This is now the fifth season using the BBB method and we have perfect water. It's amazing how easy it is, no algae problems, just keep the water balanced per the instructions here and poolsolutions. I live in middle Tn. and my pool gets sun all day, my neighbors using baquajunk always have cloudy water and in August seem to get algae real bad, I try to convince them BBB is the way to go, but they always say you only have to check your water every couple of weeks and it is easy, but when I see their cloudy water vs. my clear water and it only takes 2 minutes to pour a bottle of bleach in everyday or every other day and the money I have saved....IT'S A NO BRAINER!!!
I am thinking seriously about a SWG for next season, but need to do more research first.

A huge thanks to all here who make my pool so easy to care for!!!
JD