Recent content by skyeboysteve

What a mess... yes, it's lousy workmanship like that that can cause much anguish and spent money for the next victim... Wife just did a dye check and discovered that one of the returns we had leaking issues before, is now leaking again. However, it's not on the same side of the pool as the...

I was afraid of that... but that's probably the only logical conclusion. Just when you get done doing multiple tests (including getting 4 different leak detection companies in the past year or so); it's hard to imagine that there would be yet another leak developed; (but bad luck seems to be...

Yes sir... for one thing we don't have autofill. Did the test three times over the summer. Twice with pump running and once without. Water consumption for property: (which includes watering the lawn) April: 4K gallons May: 6K gallons June: 17K gallons July: 19K gallons August: 17K gallons...

I'm using the reagents that come with the TF-Pro Salt with SmartStir-for pools with SWG test kit. Also both Leslie Pool stores gave me similar numbers for salt this last time. That being said, I only used my own kit when I measured earlier this year. I agree at the crazy amount of salt loss...

I do not have an auto over flow system or auto fill valve (would be nice though). Well, in some ways I think I have a bit of an auto overflow system--called the back of the skimmer box; which has a few cracks at the very top so water can leak out there when the water line gets up to the coping...

Before I switched to SWG, too much CYA was always my nemesis--requiring draining my 20,000 gallon pool every year. I never had to add CYA when I'd refill it, as apparently there was a lot absorbed in the plaster (even new plaster) that would leach back out--plus the tricholor tabs would then...

I was much slower on this than normal. In retrospect I shouldn't have been so lazy and taken the time to find a tripod and search the house / car / garage for my phone tripod adapter... I was having a hard time aiming my phone (keeping auto focus engaged on the right thing) and aiming my...

Thanks Jeff... this is intriguing to me that angle could effect drop size enough to presumably error greater than 10ppm. As I said before... I'm going to test this next when the festivities subside.

I honestly don't usually dry the tip either as I've noticed in the past when testing it didn't seem to effect anything... I only did it for this video as that's what the supplied instructions say to do for the TA. Didn't realize it had anything to do with static electricity as @Turbo1Ton...

Interesting... that's hard to believe, but now I want to experiment with the same sample of water and see how much variation there is. I do know that I CANNOT hold my R-0871 bottle vertical without the contents pouring out--this hasn't been an issue before. I suspect the size of the bottle...

Here's a video demonstrating my testing the pH and TA levels:

FWIW, the reagents I'm using are pretty new. Ordered them from this site a couple months ago. Is there a way to get known water samples? I've taken water samples to three different pool stores in my area, and got different TA results from each one from a sample taken the same day... so not...

Not sure what you mean by how I'm doing the test... carefully? I keep reading that a lower TA usually buffers the pH from rising too quickly... so confused why too low makes pH more erratic... my pH never goes down on it's own--that's for sure.

True... I do keep a log of my test results and how much stuff I put in, but haven't been recording rain... granted I'm indoors so much I didn't even notice it rained till my wife mentioned it to me. I guess part of the reason for why I feel so perplexed is combining past experience (when I was...

Yes, I'm using the 31.45% stuff. I actually had my TA down to 20 at one point as I dumped in so much acid to try to get it down.... but it went up to 80 in a week's time--nothing added including no tap water.