Recent content by Tashacaroline

Okay so here's my progress: SLAM worked like a charm! Water looks beautiful. And I'm doing my due diligence with my new test kit and levels are all good except... Calcium hardness. Calcium hardness is at 700. Which I find odd because when we bought the house pre algae we had had to fill the...

I'm using strips to test CYA right now and it says it's about 40... So according to the chart I would need to get up to a 16 for chlorine to SLAM... Or maybe a little higher in case the strip is off. I went ahead and added 3 gallons of kem Tek liquid chlorine because my free chlorine was only...

aaaand I think I just put everything in my signature... Wanted to test!

Thanks everybody, I've been reading a lot of Pool School today, will keep working on it. I'm also going to order the test kit as recommended! I currently have the Clorox Pool and Spa 3 way test kit... Can I trust the readings from that enough to start the SLAM process until my better test kit...

I bought a house with a pool in February... In ground, plaster, pool and spa, irregularly shaped 25,000 gallons with a cartridge filter. Gets direct sun almost all day and is surrounded by trees who loooove to drop tons of leaves. I ordered a cover to keep the leaves out and the sun out...