Recent content by justagi

Its been a while but we thought we'd post one more set of test results on this thread just to finish out the topic. Test results from tonight: Water temp - 78 Salt - 3600 PH - 7.5 FC - 6.5 CC - 0 TA - 80 CH - 60 CYA - 30 We are running the SWCG 12 hours a day at 40%. We have not put anything...

We used to have a very bad pool frog problem due to the fresh water pond 50 feet from our pool. Since we have converted to a SWCG we almost never see them around the pool anymore. The salt water seems to stun them and kills them if we don't get them out of the skimmers fast enough. For the...

There's nothing better being a pool owner then being the fat man jumping in ... except maybe throwing the dogs in first.... then playing with them.... Can't wait for the grandkids to get here this summer!!

We've been away from the computer for a few days but have tried to keep up with the testing. We are going to testing every two days now that the values seem to be stabilzing. We had our first swimmers today and the neighbor is jealous of how the water looks. Test results from two days ago...

Linen - thanks for the advice. WE had been adding washing soda to the skimmers as well. We will continue to shut off the SWCG just for safety's sake until we have a better feel for things. Here are last night's test results: Water temp - 75 Salt - 3600 PH - 7.2 FC - 14 CC - 0 TA - 100 CH -...

Chuck - thanks for the advice... We am still trying to find out how to disseminate the various chemicals... I can see why CYA takes so long to have an effect if you have to wait for it to dissolve thru a sock... Dave - the neighbors probably thought we were nuts out there vacumning with a...

Thanks for the tip Dave... it was a bit difficult vacumning at night but a flashlight helped...

We added 4 lbs of CYA and 1 lb of washing soda last night and left the pump and SWCG (40 percent cycle) running for 24 hours. Here are today's test results. Water Temp 74 FC - 20 CC - 0 PH - 7.2 TA - 90 CYA - 30 CH - 60 TDS - N/A Salt - 3900 The salt levels seem to be rising as is the FC...

Linen Thanks for the reminder about pH values being affected by the high FC. All this chemical training seems like witchcraft at times... We'll go back to the pool calculator to see what we need to do to start the CYA moving in the right direction. We will also throttle back the SWCG some to...

We have added chemicals twice now since the last posting. We have a lot of remaining chemicals left over from the Pool Store regime we were doing so right after our last post we added 8 lbs of shock to the pool. This shock was 58% Sodium Dichlor. We were hoping to lower the PH, raise the TA...

The part of South Carolina we live in is called the Low Country because its all mostly swamp or used to be. Our pool is about 40 feet from one of the neighborhood ponds that drain out into the the lakes and rivers in the area. We used to have a terrible time with frogs and turtles coming up...

Thanks for all welcomes and the advice so far. We have drained and refilled the pool and let the SWCG run on boost for 24 hours. We pulled a water sample tonight and these are our results using the TF-100 test set: FC - 3 pH - > 8.2 TA - 60 CYA - <20 CH - 60 TDS - N/A Salt - 3600 (the...

Hi there. We have been lurking on the forum for a few weeks trying to learn some of the basics of pool care. Thanks for all the work all of you are doing to educate those of new to pool care. We have learned quite a bit already but now know we have a long ways to go. We have had our pool for...