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Re: What is the correct amount of Borax for a SWG 65000 litr I have looked at the bottle 170 grams per litre of active chlorine. Does that sound right? We have cleaned the pool this morning and the water is cloudy. I need to do some more tests as we used 4 litres of the above in last night.

I have black algae in the grouting Yesterday the TC was 5 with no cc's but as I had black algae growing in the grouting on the bottom of the pool I added a litre of strong bleach. Swept and cleaned the pool before adding the chlorine. Today the pool looks cloudy TC 8.5 CC 0 FC 8.5 CYA 55 PH...

Re: What is the correct amount of Borax for a SWG 65000 litr I have been using the app for the calculations (from trouble free pool) It is definately much easier to use the calculator on here.

My pool is in Spain and I have a new person cleaning and maintaining it. Is your site available in Spanish? I would like to be able to train him to understand the water balance and the BBB method. Thanks, Peggy

Re: What is the correct amount of Borax for a SWG 65000 litr Hi Jason, Thank you for your reply. I think their is a problem with the pool calculator when you use the Metric version. I don't understand the decimal point to get the correct volume. Therefore all the calculations are difficult to...

Well I am really confused. 1. Having done the calculations on the pool calculator for a 65000 Litre pool it states I need to add 22.927 grams 2. using the forum here our calculations to get 12oz to 1000 gallons to get a reading of 10 our calculations was we needed 4.86kg to raise the value...

I have rust spots in the grouting of my tiled pool. Could this be due to the frame of the pool behind the concrete? How can I get rid of these and prevent them from coming back?

I have now drained off one third of the pool, to bring the CYA level back down to within normal limits. The water looks cristal clear. I'm not sure now what the CYA level is now. Hopefully the algae has gone. I managed one swim before I left to go back to the UK. I have left liquid chlorine to...

All I know was he had a Palin test kit machine that he put the pool water in a test tube, to set the machine and then in another 10ml test tube he put a tablet in I think it was no 1 2 or 3 put it then in the machine after the pool water without tablet and he had a greater than sign. He said the...

Well things are progressing , however I am learning the hard way. Yesterday, I managed to get a pool man in to test the water. I know I was so hopeful that everything was going to be ok. He tested the PH and this was 7.5 great, then he tested for Free chlorine and it was off his scale. The...

Thank you for your messages. Unfortunately I haven't managed to get the proper test kit yet. I will have to get it in the UK when I get home. The aqua test strips are not really accurate enough. I have checked the composition of the chlorine i have used and it says composition sodium...

The pool was getting clearer, but thn yesterday started to look cloudy again. Added more shock chlorine and this morning is starting to look clearer, although not completely clear. Is it usual for the stabiliser to be raised by adding shock chlorine? This was about 30 to 50 but is now more like...

Thank you very much for this. I have been down to the coast today looking for a good pool shop. I didn't find one. I have come back to the pool looking slightly greener. I have added rapid chlorine 1 kg to the pool and have left the pump running. I hope this will make a difference. I did the...

Thank you everyone. You are right the test kit I have for the free chlorine only goes up to 3.0 ppm which is no good if I am trying to get the level up to 13 to shock the pool. And then get the level of CYA level up. It is really hot 35 degrees here at the moment and is a real pain not being...

Yes if you could find out from Taylor that would be great. Thank you