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Thanks. That's a little comforting re the accuracy of the sample I took. I'm just concerned given the experience w the constant rise in PH weekly and the 8.4 does not seem that unreasonable to me, although surprising since it's been closed for a week. I have a solid cover as well. My water...

I have a one year old 18,700 plaster pool with a SWG so my ph always rises and needs to be knocked down every week. My pool was closed a week ago (I live in NJ) and out of curiousity I check the PH level after undoing a few straps to get to the water and the PH is now b/w 8.2-8.4. It was 7.6...

Thanks. The amount of MA for my pool doesn't seem that unreasonable now. Were your levels harder to maintain the first or second year and/or did you have any scale problems? My pool is closed 8 months if the year since I'm in NJ.

What I meant by sensitivity is that sodium dychlor is Ph neutral as opposed to other shocks like calcium hypochlorite which is higher in ph and has calcium, thus contributing to increase levels for both.

I use a Pentair 78DPD test kit and really only use the strips to get a quick read on the Chlorine when I want too and so I can keep the salt generator at a relatively low level. The only other water feature I have is the Nature 2 sytem and I rarely shock the pool. When I have shocked the pool...

Thanks for the quick reply. The pool guy writes down all the levels every week before treatment. Yesterday the PH was 7.8, TA 130, Calcium 250, CYA 30 (low I know), Chlorine 2.0. It's usually always around the same week to week with the PH sometime at 8.0. I still do my own testing w strips...

I have a new gunite salt water pool that was installed last year and plastered the first week in May of 2012. From May until the time I had the pool closed in late Sept. I battled the PH levels constantly rising because of the plaster curing, which I was told was normal. However, when the pool...