The Above-Ground Pool Water Handbook: Dose-by-Gallon Charts for 1,000 to 15,000 Gallon Pools — Clear Water, Fewer Chemicals, and Fast Fixes Green, Cloudy, Overdosed

Your pool holds 3,000 gallons. The bucket is talking to a pool five times the size.Every dosing instruction in the pool aisle is written per 10,000 gallons. Above-ground pools hold a fraction of that. Follow the label and you overdose: bleached liner, cloudy water, cyanuric acid past 100 ppm by August, and a pool nobody can swim in for three days.This handbook does the arithmetic at your size. Every chart has a row for 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, 2,500, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000, 8,000, 10,000, and 15,000 gallons. Find your row, read across, measure, pour.Inside: - Exact doses for liquid chlorine, bleach, cal-hypo, dichlor, trichlor, baking soda, muriatic and dry acid, calcium chloride, stabilizer, and salt- The cyanuric acid trap: why one tab a week can push a 3,000 gallon pool past 80 ppm in two months, and what that does to the chlorine you keep buying- Green water recovery, step by step, plus the arithmetic that tells you when replacing water is cheaper than treating it- How to undo your own overdose: too much chlorine, a pH crash, a bag of shock in a small pool- A symptom index for cloudy, milky, foaming, smelly, itchy, and stained water- Filtration and run-time maths for 530 to 2,500 gph pumps, cartridge care that works, and when a sand filter is the upgrade- Leveling and ground load, the 2025 compression-strap recall that covers five million pools, and the electrical rules people break with an extension cord- Closing, storing, and opening again without a green springWritten for soft-sided, frame, and steel-wall pools: Intex, Bestway, Coleman, Summer Waves, Polygroup, and the steel round on a leveled pad. No four-step program, no weekly shock, nothing to subscribe to. Every number in the book is computed from the chemistry and the method is printed in the appendix so you can check it.