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The Seasonal Pool standards, as outlined in the how to section have been working out great, no issues with cloudy or green water, simple snuff to add bleach everyday or every other day, and keep it at the right levels. It would be nice if the sun would stay out more than 1/2 a day so the water...

Moving toward using the Seasonal Pool standards for my pool even though i am about 700 gallons larger than it says I should be. Still waiting on the Cya to show on the test, but not to big of a concern. The big thing is that my daughter got her cast off today so she can really start enjoying...

I just wanted to say thanks, for everyone that has helped with this years pool adventure. So far, has not been near as hard as I figured it would be. Also, with what I have learned in the past 2 weeks, opening the pool next season should be much simpler and much cheaper. knowing that I an not...

Got it, removing it now.

So I should take out my hth 3 inch puck thing?

Indeed. I can still pull the sock out and wait a week if that would be best. All if the 8oz has not dissolved yet.

I added 15 oz Wed or Thursday. I have added 8 oz to a sock this morning

Updated test results using the HTH 6 way test kit. CL/Br 3/6 Ph 7.8 TA 200 TH 350 CYA still not showing up

I am off to get the test kit, silly test strips showed: TH 200 FC: 2 PH: 6.8 TA: 120 CYA: 0 - still not sure about this one yet... Will post up test kit results as soon as I have them. Question about TA vs CH, I have a water report, can I use that to figure out the CH? Tim

Follow the saga here New-pool-owner-water-treatment-question Tim

ok thanks, we went swimming for about 1/2 an hour. No one has died and our skin is still on our bones...lol I will get the test kit tomorrow, and post back what the numbers report. Tim

It is an ez set pool this is the first fill of the year. Last year my wife tried to set it up but the ground was too I level and it never got used. I filled with city water and have not add any new cya yet. Guess we need to figure out the rest of the water

ok, so after looking again at the numbers I started the pool math calculator with:TH: 400 TH 200 FC: 2 PH: 6.4 TA: 40 CYA: 0 I think what happened is at one pout it said to add 77oz of Borax, but then I add the rest of the numbers, and forgot to hit calculate at the top...... I took the...

Current numbers TH between 200-300 FC 2 PH 7.2 TA 120 CYA still not reDing I am using strips until I get my test kit this week I got all my numbers from the pool math cal.

Ummm let me see what the test says