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So my husband wanted to wait a week before draining the pool because it is a bit of a hassle. I have been taking a sample of the water in to pinchapenny everyday this week and he has been telling me that in less then 24 hours my stabilizer went from 100 to 60 and has been staying right around...

I checked and there aren't any Walmarts in my area that carry it, but I am going to check HomeDepot and Lowe's tomorrow. They have some pool stuff so maybe they will carry it. :/

Okay, so I vacuumed what little bit of stabilizer there was left in the pool when I woke up this morning. A couple of hours later I took a water sample back to pinchapenny and this is how it read... Total Chlorine 5 ppm pH 7.4 Acid Demand * Total Alkalinity 135 ppm Calc Hardness 230 ppm...

Okay, well I guess I will just have to wait until morning now, oh the insanity! lol. Thank you so much for your help! One more question though, if having the ph too low can damage my liner, what do you think we are talking about exactly? How long does it take for a low ph, from too much...

For my size pool what is the max level before I need to drain? Here is my new read since I added 72 oz's borax... Total Chlorine 3 ppm pH 6.6 (had to use my fishtank ph kit again) Free Chlorine 3 ppm Bromine 6 ppm Total Alkalinity 120 ppm Calc Hardness 100 ppm Stabilizer 50 ppm

So I only had 72 oz's of borax so I dumped it in there, it is too dark outside for me to see fi there is still any cya (which I am sure there is). Does that mean my pool is pretty much beat and I need to drain the water and start over?

Thanks, I'll be back in an hour to give an update, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I just recently put up a 15' by 48" intex metal frame pool in my backyard. I went to pinchapenny today to have my water tested so they could tell me what to buy and what to do. My test read as so... Total Chlorine 0.5 ppm pH 8.0 Acid Demand 3 Total Alkalinity 120...