Trouble Free Pool Method of Pool Maintenance - The CLEAREST Water, and EASIEST CARE
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- I've provided a quick overview of an effective method of pool care I've used over the last couple of years. Trouble Free Pool is a website/forum dedicated to simple pool care solutions to help save the homeowner money and make the process easy.
I have no affiliation to TFP other than following their methodology of pool care. In the two years I've owned a pool, it's never been green!
Pool companies and pool stores like to test your water and sell you expensive chemicals to care for your pool... don't be a victim of this scam. Most chemicals you need to care for your pool can be found at a local big box store for much lower prices.
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I recently decided to take over the maintenance of our pool. We had a pool service for over 3 years but since installing cameras around the house got to see that our pool guy really didn’t do much other than place chlorine tabs in the skimmer which, I learned is also bad in itself. Well…what I discovered after learning to test my water is that our pool was not balanced at all and our CYA was well over 200. I’m in CA so we always have our pool open. I had to completely drain and refill to start from scratch. I came across trouble free pools forum and now my pool chemistry is balanced. Using just liquid chlorine and muriatic acid after the initial refilling of the pool. Like you said, the trouble free pool method is very easy and my pool looks great! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching, couldn't agree more!
Fired his pool service and had to completely drain his pool soon after only to refill his pool and use so much chlorine that he could have just left the 200ppm cya water in. Now he's spending more on chlorine than it cost him to pay a pool service, and he has to maintain the pool himself. And the excess chlorine shortens the lifespan of his pool
TFP is the product outreach arm of the chlorine manufacturing industry and their whole goal is to shift public perception to drastically raise chlorine consumption. The people that use the TFP method are homeowners that wanted to maintain their own pool but didn't have the time or patience to learn to do it correctly so TFP swooped in and got them to use five times the chorine they should use because no matter how bad you are at maintaining a pool, nothing's growing in a pool with that much chlorine in it, so the homeowners think it's working but don't understand the side effects of too much chlorine.
@@jimbeam-ru1my you couldn’t be more wrong. I was paying $150 per month on a pool service. I only spend $35 month on chlorine (1 gallon a week) and maybe $30 every two months on muriatic acid. Plus, with our pool service we started to see algae growth on pool tile and my guess is that of our CYA level and an unbalanced pool. Say what you will but my pool has never looked better. You must be a pool service operator.
@@javtheautoenthusiast6418 1 gallon a week eh? What ppm do you maintain? And what do you spend on cya? What did you spend to drain the pool and replace all the chemicals? How often do you"slam" your pool, and if so how much chlorine do you go through then? How much money do you spend to use the chems in the fas dpd kit rather than test strips and a 5 way? How much did you pay for the fas dpd?
"Say what you will but my pool has never looked better."
Of course it does. When you have enough chlorine in it to kill an elephant then you don't need to worry about algae.
@@jimbeam-ru1my here are my current pool readings
CYA: 45
Ph: 7.6
Alkalinity: 80
Maintain chlorine at 6ppm
I drained the pool to the floor level myself in April which got me down to a CYA of 50. That should tell you how high the CYA was prior to draining the pool. Got an exemption fee waiver from the city to refill the pool. Only had to buy calcium hardness in addition to the regular maintenance chemicals of chlorine and muriatic acid. So not much spent on reopening.
I have not ever had to slam the pool. I purchased a Taylor test kit in April and have enough testing agents to last a year. Testing strips are garbage. Any other questions?
Nice overview. I've also adopted the TFP method after using pucks for years and sort of blindly stumbling my way through with test strips, running into issues and never full understanding why. My first impression of TFP was that it was complicated, but after understanding it better, it quickly becomes obvious that this IS the easy way.
It does feel overwhelming at first, but once you get the hang of the water chemistry you learn how your pool reacts to things and can pretty much predict what you need to do.
You fell into a money sucking cult and now you’re going to triple your cost to maintain a pool. Of course their method will prevent algae, but so would any method that calls for jacking chlorine to 500% of recommended levels..
This is what happens when people don’t want to learn and just want someone else to think for them
I also use tfp this is an excellent overview. Hey do you have a closing video if not would love to see you make one.
I actually hire closing out. I don't mess with that. :)
Well its not very trouble free if you have to check adjust your pool chemicals every day. But you have convinced me to get rid of the test strips and get the Taylor test kit.
It’s a pool. It needs regular maintenance. Trouble-free just means you won’t run in to “trouble”. And yes. The test strips are complete garbage. Get the Taylor K-2006 for chlorine pools
I've done my job here if you ditched the test strips.
Are there people who use the TFB method but use the chlorine pucks and supplement?
The only reason you do not want to use the pucks is that they are almost always stablized. In other words, they have stablizer in them.
Now, don't get me wrong. You DO need stablizer in your pool. But if you get too much, it's just as bad (or worse even) as not having enough stablizer.
The stablizer (CYA) plays the role of protecting your chlorine from sunlight. Without stablizer, the half life of chlorine in sun exposure is very very short. Hours at best. BUT as stablizer increases, it also diminishes the ability of the chlorine to do it's job. So you need higher chlorine levels. At a certain point, if stalbizer levels get high enough, they make it so the chlorine just CANT do it's job.
So you need a nice balance, a good range of CYA. Usually for most non salt pools you want around 30 ppm to 40 ppm of CYA. And then your daily "swimming level" chlorine targets are going to be around 5 ppm to 7 ppm.
All that is to say, if you use the pucks on a prolonged basis... each day your CYA level will build little by little. At a point, once it starts getting to 70 ppm, 80 ppm... 100ppm.... you will have to drain your pool some and put fresh water in to dilute out the CYA.
For that reason, I use calcium hypochlorite.
I still use pucks here and there, mainly when I'm gone on vacation, but as @brandonkick explained they slowly increase your CYA level so that's why I avoid them. There are pucks out there that don't have stabilizer in them, but they're much more costly than just using liquid chlorine.
@@brandonkick "chlorine targets are going to be around 5 ppm to 7 ppm. "
5 to 7 ppm is a low chlorine range for TFP. If you have 60 ppm CYA then they want you to use 5-9ppm. According to TFP, the CDC is full of shit when they say chlorine levels above 6 ppm are unsafe. But then TFP is a "product awareness" outreach by the chlorine manufacturing industry with the goal of drastically increasing chlorine usage by ignorant homeowners trying to maintain their pools but too lazy to learn how.
Like this guys claims about the pucks constantly raising CYA. CYA needs to be constantly replenished because it degrades just like everything else. The pucks don't raise the CYA level, they maintain it. However, since TFP is a con for ignorant homeowners that use trichlor or dichlor to shock their pools, which has cya in it, they convince them that it's the pucks raising the CYA, not using the wrong kind of chlorine.
"The only reason you do not want to use the pucks is that they are almost always stablized. "
No, that's the reason you do want to use pucks. Maintaining cya is part of their job.
$60 a month for chlorine will guarantee a clear and clean pool.
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$60 a month 😮
That's a lot? Cheaper than tabs...