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Day 5 - CYA still at 100 - no change.

Another test for Bio-Active Cyanuric Acid Reducer Given the drought in California, changing water is not an option. So I decided to give Bio-active a try. I am testing CYA both with test strip and the black dot method. CYA initial reading is at 100. I dropped Chlorine to FC: 0.5, CC:1 and...

Thanks all for the response. Right now, from all the comments I have, I am running with 3 hypothesis: 1) smell comes from some sort of algae, bacteria 2) smell comes from high level of CC 3) smell comes from the cover itself To test #1 & #2, I am going to slam the pool, but realized that I had...

In winter, obviously the cover is nearly always on. In summer though, the pool is open pretty much all day. When I close the cover at night, the smell is pretty atrocious. As if something from the water attaches to the cover. Could CC attach to the cover or would it stay only in the water...

I have been having smell issues with a pool cover for over 2 years and I am looking for suggestions on what could be the cause. I have an Inground pool (Chlorine) in Oakland, CA. For safety reason, the pool is covered using a vinyl/polymer cover from Poolcover Inc. After 5 years, our first...

I have a vinyl based pool cover. Whenever it is sunny or just warm, the cover starts to emit a very strong smell of burned plastic. It goes away as soon as the cover is rolled up or when it is gray or the sun is out. The reseller keeps telling us (without coming to check) that it must be the...