- May 27, 2023
- 17
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Hi TFP community,
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!
My wife and I recently purchased a home in the North County San Diego, CA area that came with a pool. Instead of hiring someone to take care of the pool for us, I decided to take the challenge head on and do it myself (also with the encouragement of my Dad who's been taking care of his own pool for many years). I'm looking forward to diving head first into this sub and journey, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little overwhelming. I know it gets better with time, practice, and continuous learning from this sub, so I'm ready to get started.
I recently bought the TF-Pro w/ Smart Stir test kit as a result of following the advice of people within this forum. Today I did my first test with the kit and will be taking a sample of pool water to Leslie's tomorrow to cross check and see how I did. Should I test again before taking my sample to Leslie's tomorrow or will my current numbers be okay?
My pool info is below along with my first test readouts. Please let me know what you think of these numbers, how I should take action, and/or if you need any more info.
Pool Info/Background
TF-Pro w/ Smart Stir – First Test Results
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!
My wife and I recently purchased a home in the North County San Diego, CA area that came with a pool. Instead of hiring someone to take care of the pool for us, I decided to take the challenge head on and do it myself (also with the encouragement of my Dad who's been taking care of his own pool for many years). I'm looking forward to diving head first into this sub and journey, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little overwhelming. I know it gets better with time, practice, and continuous learning from this sub, so I'm ready to get started.
I recently bought the TF-Pro w/ Smart Stir test kit as a result of following the advice of people within this forum. Today I did my first test with the kit and will be taking a sample of pool water to Leslie's tomorrow to cross check and see how I did. Should I test again before taking my sample to Leslie's tomorrow or will my current numbers be okay?
My pool info is below along with my first test readouts. Please let me know what you think of these numbers, how I should take action, and/or if you need any more info.
Pool Info/Background
- About 20,000 gallons
- Pentair System
- Salt water generator
- Bought the house with the pool and it looked like it hadn't been taken care of for a while. Not necessarily horrible, but definitely neglected as the pool had algae.
- When I took it to Leslie's for the first time, I found out it had .13 ppm Chlorine. So at the guidance of my Dad, I shocked it with a few packets I bought from Leslie's and that brought the Chlorine level to an acceptable amount of around 1.4 ppm.
- Cleaned the filters which were filthy
- Turned my salt water generator to 80%
- I have Pool Math app downloaded on my phone
TF-Pro w/ Smart Stir – First Test Results
- FC = 1.0
- CC = 0.0
- PH = ~ 7.9
- TA = 90
- CH = 775
- CYA = 40
- CSI = 0.600