Recent content by dgb99

Your experience sounds pretty familiar to me. I'm not a professional but I can tell you my story and the path my wife and I chose as homeowners faced with a similar situation. Someday I need to put some pictures together with the story but here's a quick rundown: We bought our house in Plano...

Yes, I can say that ours has started to slow down as well. I'm guessing temperature has something to do with it as well. I was having to test every day and add at least a cup of acid for the first 2 months to keep pH below 8.0. Then for the next two months it was testing every other day...

Thanks! I'm not ready just yet to go to the 50 ppm borates (which I guess means my water is really BBB'd?). I'm going to see how things go over the next few months without the borates so that I have something to compare to later. My water looks/feels fine right now and I've got the routine...

There is no control to change any airflow to the spa jets as far as I know. The return flow is controlled by an actuator/valve that diverts some of the water to the main pool return and some to the spa (set about 70% main/30% spa in pool mode). In spa mode, the actuator turns to 100% spa, 0%...

I've shopped around by me and here's my rundown (Plano/Dallas, TX): Home Depot ~$6/gal but only have 'green' muriatic acid with no strength marking on it Lowe's ~$6/gal (they have both the 31.45% stuff and the 'green' unmarked stuff) Leslie's Pool Supply $11.39 for 2 gallons Riverbend/Sandler...

Hmmm...I have always been concerned that my main drain didn't have full suction. But, to be clear, without the fittings installed now, I have barely any bubbles on any of the returns (maybe a few on the spa returns which may be air injection nozzles). How would I know if they are air injection...

Yes, with all eyeball return covers in place, the four returns in the spa have bubbles coming out and the three returns in the pool occasionally have bubbles (although not nearly as much as the spa). Before the renovation (with all eyeball return covers in place), it was less bubbly but there...

Hmmm...interesting results today testing again after ~14 hours (with the pump running). So I had the usual CL loss of about 3 (actually measured 4.5 from 8). However, pH measured 7.5 (from 7.4 this morning). Obviously a lot smaller jump than in previous testing (even if I extrapolate for 24...

I have an issue similar to a recent post about quickly rising pH. I didn't want to piggyback but I'm obviously paying attention to any responses to that thread as well. Here are my numbers from this morning's final test with my TF-100 kit: FC 6.5 CC 0 TC 6.5 pH 7.4 TA 75 CH 270 CYA 45 Temp 87...