Recent content by Notri4MeBikeSwim

Ok, thank you all.

Climate: very moderate, maybe 3-4 mild freeze days, temps in the upper 20's. It's too cold to swim, so what is the most cost effective approach. Changes this year: replaced single speed, 3500 rpm pool motor with variable. During the swimming season can only dial it back to 2500 as we have a...

Thank you. I called the conditioner salt as this was part of the description on the bottle of "conditioner" and the bottom of the bottle looked more like salt going into the pool than a typical liquid. So if I understand correctly, there is no real value in raising cya from 30 to 50 and...

from pool school Chlorine / CYA Chart Perhaps a cornerstone element of BBB is understanding the relationship between the chlorine in your pool and the stabilizer you put in to protect the chlorine from the sun. Generally, the more stabilizer, the more chlorine you need to maintain its...

Thought I'ld provide a report on my experience with yellow out. I tried it as I thought I had mustard algae and super shock was not removing it. Yellowout was easy to apply and wiped out any visible algae very very quickly. HOWEVER, it has a nasty side effect. FC drops for many many days after...

"shock" is 10% bleach sold as SHOCK product name. I just thought raising cya would mean less bleach. I had to shock because i fell off the wagon a couple of times and FC dropped to less than 1. It meant lots of work, so trying to reprogram the pool guy to have regular testing. I expected to...

Here are today's numbers: Water Temp 84F [turned off solar heater] FC 6.5 CC 0 PH 7.2 TA 100 Calc Hard 550 CYA 30 So it looks like I should raise CYA. Questions: 1- would you recommend raising to top end of 50 via liquid stabilizer? 2- If you are just using 10% bleach, "shock", and acid...

cya is about 50, I'll recheck tomorrow. it's too dark now. location is sacramento valley. we've had a heat wave of over 100, usually about 105 for last 6 days. Not exactly clear on the standard for cya testing. Is it just as dot begins to disappear or when the dot has disappeared, ie fuzzy dot...

thank you all. so the next time the family says I'm using too many chemicals, I just say the forum says No, it's about right. :party:

Hmmm, I think I'm using about 3-4 gallons per week, but now when in 100F's more like 5-6. not very consistent record keeper. I'm only really having 2 issues with this: 1. transport of the chlorine. I found out the main problem was home depot, there pallet of shock was in the sun, so much gas...

Never scrolled down to bottom to the effect of adding chemicals, cal-hypo adds CH and the only remedy is to replace water. ugh. so back to 12% bleach

i forgot cal-hypo was in the calculator, i was just using it for bleach type chlorine...

Found info on tri-chlor. adds much cya Trichloroisocyanuric acid in swimming pools is easier to handle than chlorine. It dissolves slowly in water, but as it reacts, cyanuric acid concentration in the pool will build-up. At high cyanuric acid concentrations, normal chlorine levels can be...

I've been using the 12% shock, ie double strength bleach from leslies/lowes/home depot. It's a pain to carry the liquids, are there any good powder alternatives? Leslies carries: power powder plus-- 65-70% Calcium Hypochlorite, no disclosure of other chems, no stabilizer ie cya includes...

Opps, treated the pool, again and again, for yellow algae, but just figured out tonight most of the yellow/green stuff on the East side of the pool is not algae, but reflections of the trees and tall bushes making a green wall in back. I was distracted by the falling FC of .5 to 1.0/night and...