Recent content by erivette

He uses Muriatic Acid to lower ph and bleach for chlorine. This is a fresh fill.

We finally got my brother's hot tub cleared up. But now it's turning his wife's silver jewelry black. What could that be? I just came back from testing his water. FC 4 TC 4 PH 7.6 TA 60 CH 160 CYA 30 He wants to use chlorine, but his wife is convinced chlorine is the problem because this...

I was reading thru other posts about biofilm and they say it feels slimy. These particles aren't slimy at all. My brother tests his hot tub every 2-3 days and he opened the cover to test and there was all this stuff floating in it. It looks like tiny white flecks, but we put the blowers on to...

Re: Mysterious "floaties" in hot tub water ?! You wouldn't see anything in pictures, it's tiny particles, when I said we tried catching a big piece to see what it felt like it was maybe 1/4 the size as the head of an eraser on a pencil and paper thin, the rest are extremely tiny. It...

I'm trying to help my brother. His hot tub filled with white particles. He went to a pool store and they told him it was a calcium issue. He drained the hot tub and refilled it but there's still stuff floating in the water. Most of it is tiny, but when you can find a piece large enough to grab...

Here you go: FC 7 CC 0 PH 7.4 TA 140 CH 300 CYA 40 (about half way between 30 and 40 three times in a row) I added bleach this morning to keep it above 7 so I've lost about 4.5 FC in about 9 hours. I will get it back above 16 now. Thank you for the help!!!

So I let the FC drift down yesterday as it had been more than 3 weeks since I could test ph. At 7am yesterday my FC was 18 and by 9pm last night it was down to 7.5. My ph was about 7.8 so I added muriatic acid. At 6:45 this morning my FC was still 7.5 but I had CC of 1. So I'm not sure what to...

Yes, I bought the correct type sand. I'm not sure about how the sand was added because the pool guy that installed my new liner did it for me. But I've used the same guy for about 9 years for initial install and setup, replacement pool install and setup when a windstorm took my first pool down...

I had a new liner installed right at a year ago and replaced the sand at the same time. I didn't have any trouble with the filter last year. But I will look into deep cleaning the filter. I can't imagine that there's a big problem with the filter since it cleared up the horrible mess I started...

Well I still can't pass OCLT, 3 weeks since ammonia issue and 2 weeks since the pool has been sparkling. Don't know what to do. In case diver Dave was the culprit I removed him from the pool and he hasn't been back. I'm brushing at least twice a day. The filter pressure has remained steady. Pool...

I only get the plume after back washing.

I haven't had to backwash again yet. We shall see. I live on 10 acres with a bunch of oak trees around the pool and it is crazy right now and windy and cold. Btw 10% liquid chlorine for $2.50 at the Walmart in Schertz and it's dated recently. Can't beat that!!!

My pool is sooo sparkly! but I'm not stopping SLAM until I pass that darn OCLT. I don't think it was sand since the sock caught nothing, had to be super fine. I realized yesterday my pressure gauge quit so I replaced it. We shall see if I need to backwash more often. I think I've fished about...

I have another thread under ALGAE PREVENTION as I had an ammonia issue almost 3 weeks ago and although my pool has been crystal clear for almost 2 weeks, I cannot seem to pass OCLT. Everything has been removed from pool. Then today I notice the plume. Maybe this has been effecting my OCLT not...

Could it be Diver Dave? He's been in the pool at shock level for hours on end. And still can't pass OCLT, but I had a setback. Wednesday night when I went to add bleach for the night I was out, thought I had another box of bleach. I didn't go buy more so by the time I got home from work...