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True, that does make sense

If you already have some Anthony and Sylvan Super Pool Treat (dichlor) you can use it up, both to maintain chlorine and to raise the CYA level up to 70-80. You can use PoolMath to determine how much you will be able to use until the CYA is in range, then stop using it and resume liquid chlorine...

using the "effects of adding chemicals" section of poolmath, the 560lb of salt will give you a reading of 3346. check the manuf. suggested levels and see if that is in range. As for CYA it starts at zero with new water, so whatever you add, will be what your level is.

Hi WalterE, your reading of 0.4CC indicates you are using 25ml of water sample to test. If you only use 10ml water, you can save your testing reagents. Each drop would then equal 0.5ppm chlorine instead of 0.2ppm. The 0.5ppm precision is normally adequate. p.s. it looks like you have a great...

some soda ash would be good wouldnt it, to raise both pH and TA?

Well, the new stone arrived, and it's still sitting in the driveway :( The project has gone south (no offense to the south lol) and come to a standstill. Our plan to speed up the completion was to get the new stone delivered and ask for the old unused stone to be removed from the bill. I...

Bonjour, it is not even necessary to run the pump all day, a few hours per day is enough. As long as the water surface is being kept clean. If you put the pump on a timer you can have it run overnight. See this link. As for now, if you wont be using the pool for the rest of the year, at least...

The reason poolmath said to replace 100% of water is because you put in a target of 0 for borates. if you put in 15 as the target it should calculate the amount to drain to reduce the cya properly

I believe it is sandstone. They will likely be trimmed on the joining sides so they will butt up closely together, but the ends will stay uncut, as they have a texture on them.

The new stone has arrived!

Thanks Kim, i'm glad you like it! As far as the top wall cap goes, we told the contractor on Tuesday we didn't like it, and the sub-contractor also thinks they are the wrong brick for that application. Contractor said she will bring samples tomorrow (Tuesday). By the time we pick something, she...

I hooked up the LED lights to make sure they are all working fine, and last night we had our first LED waterfall nightswim! I made our 2 existing LED pool lights approximately the same colour so the entire pool looked blue

I was able to get it wired up to test the LED lights and they all worked fine More pics on my other thread: http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/101892-Oh-no-the-wall-is-bowed-in!-Repair-and-waterfall-install-w-PICS

Thanks Jim!

We have recently had a waterfall wall installed with 3 x 3ft CMP Brilliant Wonders LED Waterfalls, as seen in this exciting thread LOL : http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/101892-Oh-no-the-wall-is-bowed-in!-Repair-and-waterfall-install-w-PICS. I would like to test the LED's to make sure...