Recent content by lmhardgrave

Thanks for the information! I had heard of the chlorine loss issue so I decided against it. I think we have some very slight staining in the form of a faint stripe in a couple of areas. I will give the Jack's purple stuff a try. Do you have a salt water pool? Does the purple stuff work the same...

Hello, we recently had a rep from Wet Edge out to look at our pool. We had their primera stone finish installed last year and we have some rough spots in the pool that have developed. The rep said it is a metal / scaling issue. He used a sanding disc and sanded a step and it smoothed it out. He...

Thanks for the info. I will continue to check the levels.

So I called my pool builder about the spots and he came by today. When he was here we shut off the pump and looked at the "spots", turns out I thought there were about 6 of them but we found over 12 on the floor and the walls while he was here. He didn't have an answer for what they are. :( So...

Thanks for the replies! I will do the test as suggested with a puck and with vitamin c tabs.

Hello Everyone! So I have had the pool for about 3 months now and I feel like I am sort of getting the hang of pool care. Here are my numbers this morning for reference: Chlorine- 11.5 CH - 450 TA - 70 CYA - 70 PH - 7.5 (I added acid yesterday) Temp - 68.6 My questions are: I have to add...

Thanks for the quick reply. I have it running 14 hours right now. I will bump it up to 16 hours. Any advice on the speed it should run at? Does a higher speed make a difference to the salt cell? I will also bump the CYA back up.. At least the water loss lowered the CH! :D

I need a little more guidance. My numbers have changed a bit this morning. They are: FC - 3.5 CC - 0.5 PH - 7.2 TA - 70 CH - 425 CYA - 60 My CH and CYA dropped I think because we had 8 kids swimming on Saturday and lost a good bit of water from splashing. I had to refill for about an hour to...

I love the chili powder reference! That is so true. :D I think for now I will just keep an eye on my PH. Thanks!

I haven't updated in awhile, we have been to busy enjoying the pool! Here are a few more pics of the completed pool. I have very slowly started working on the landscape as you can see. But, the landscape still has a long way to go.. I have taken over pool care from the builder and I started a...

I don't know what cal-hypo is? I just started taking care of the pool myself. But, as best I can remember the pool builder only added, granulated chlorine(for the first 30 days), Muriatic Acid, stabilizer, and baking soda, and finally the salt. So, I am guessing my CH is from the fill water. I...

Good Morning TFP! I completed the overnight chlorine loss test and I am happy to say I did not lose any chlorine. It was 4 ppm at dark and it was 4 ppm again this morning. I have tested everything again after all the additions yesterday and here are the results: FC: 4 CC: 0.5 CH: 550 TA: 80...

Quick update. I entered all my numbers into Pool Math. I added bleach, baking soda, and i have socks of stabilizer dissolving. I followed all the suggestions for pool math. I hope this gets me to some better numbers. Question, With the salt test strips I am showing 2800 ppm, and pool math says...

Thank you for the advice! Much appreciated!

I need to go get the stabilizer. But, I like the sock idea.