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sorry, it was not baking soda i added, it was soda ash!!

and its 12,000 gallon pool :)

ok the test results before were: Calcium Hardness 0 Total Alkalinity 0 pH 8.2 Total Chlorine 10 Free Chlorine 10 CYA 0 I added around 3kg of baking soda to raise the Alkalinity, tested a couple of hours later, Alkalinity was 80, so i then added 500g of dry acid to lower the pH, within minutes...

ok, so a fresh pool has just been installed and i needed to get the alkalinity right before adjusting the PH, so i added the desired amount of baking soda, this obviously raises ph too and did so to a very high level - off the scale. a couple of hours later i added dry acid to lower the PH, but...

thanks again for the quick reply, just to note though, its not sand that is coming back into my pool, its dirty water!? It does not happen whilst i am vacuuming though, only when i first turn the pump back on. Thanks

thanks for the quick reply, however, i dont understand why dirt come back into the pool ONLY when the pump is turned back on from being off a short while? Thanks

Hi, i am looking after a pool and have noticed that when i vacuum the pool, all is fine, until i turn off the pump to empty the pump basket and turn it back on, a ton of dirt goes into the pool from the return jets. This does not happen whilst vacuuming. I opened up the sand filter and the sand...

thanks, where is the best place to test and how long after adding chlorine should i wait before testing?

im using granular 55% sodium dichloro Thanks

Hi, Ive been on around 4 or 5 sites that have water balance calculators. They are recommending to increase my chlorine from 0.5 to 1.5ppm i need to add 1.7oz of the cholrine i have to a 4750 gallon pool, this seems very little. i test the pool twice weekly and always seems to need to add quite...

Hello, I am asking for a friend. She has a pool that we have found is copper stained. We placed vitamin c tablets onto the stain and it disappeared. But now i need to know what to do next. I believe i need to get som ascorbic acid and pour it in but will this stop the stain from returning. If...