AquaBright Ecofinish--Alternative to Acid Washing
- Thread starter xyz
- Start date
- May 23, 2015
- 24,647
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
This concerns me. TFPC bases FC on CYA, not some arbitrary standard values.
I wasn't surprised. Of course they are going to go with the industry standard. They gave me no indication of warranty issues by following the guidelines from this site.
Oh. That is good news. I'm looking forward to hearing more from xyz as time goes on. This looks like a great way to spruce up all the plain white pools out there.
Ok. This AM: losing FC faster and more CC than I'm use to. Added 10% to SWG, added 16 oz FC. I'm used to more CYA, so I think I'll work on upping that over the next few days
PH creeping up very slowly. CSI still more negative than I'd like, so I'm running spa jets to accelerate PH growth. So my gut feel that the PH is moving slowly is turning out to be more than a gut feel. 0.1 per day is my rough estimate. That is with 1% on the IpH, and about 3 hours of spa jet aeration. With this kind of stability, my confidence increases that I might be able to get close to my "once per week pool" goal.
FC - 3.4 down from 5 yesterday
CC - 0.6
PH - 7.5 up from 7.4 yesterday.
I'm happy the MA demand is so much lower; I wish I had not dropped it so low initially. Looks like a couple of days and some more spa jet time will get me to the 7.7 I'm looking for.
Also a more general comment, everything seems a little easier and a more stable.
Finally, Robot on its 3rd day without filter full indicator, so the intpitial dust collection has certainly slowed. In terms of startup tasks, this is a non issue if this keeps trending this way.
Jon
PH creeping up very slowly. CSI still more negative than I'd like, so I'm running spa jets to accelerate PH growth. So my gut feel that the PH is moving slowly is turning out to be more than a gut feel. 0.1 per day is my rough estimate. That is with 1% on the IpH, and about 3 hours of spa jet aeration. With this kind of stability, my confidence increases that I might be able to get close to my "once per week pool" goal.
FC - 3.4 down from 5 yesterday
CC - 0.6
PH - 7.5 up from 7.4 yesterday.
I'm happy the MA demand is so much lower; I wish I had not dropped it so low initially. Looks like a couple of days and some more spa jet time will get me to the 7.7 I'm looking for.
Also a more general comment, everything seems a little easier and a more stable.
Finally, Robot on its 3rd day without filter full indicator, so the intpitial dust collection has certainly slowed. In terms of startup tasks, this is a non issue if this keeps trending this way.
Jon
Ok! I'll take some more.
I realized another thing I like compared to plaster. I get a lot of leaves, and if any are left at night, in the morning, there was a brown stain in the shape of a leave on the plaster. This would be cleared up with a scrub or a run of he robot.
The AcquaBright is unaffected by leaves. So I like it better.
I realized another thing I like compared to plaster. I get a lot of leaves, and if any are left at night, in the morning, there was a brown stain in the shape of a leave on the plaster. This would be cleared up with a scrub or a run of he robot.
The AcquaBright is unaffected by leaves. So I like it better.
- May 23, 2015
- 24,647
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I think your FC/CC issues are unrelated to the finish. With low CYA, your FC is going to be consumed faster by UV photolysis and low FC levels can lead to persistent CCs because the oxidation reactions that destroy CCs slow down as the concentration of FC drops (most chemical reactions are first-order with respect to reactant concentrations).
Raise your CYA and FC and you should be fine. You can use trichlor pucks to do it slowly or shock your pool water with dichlor.
Raise your CYA and FC and you should be fine. You can use trichlor pucks to do it slowly or shock your pool water with dichlor.
Thanks! I have CYA on hand so I think I will use that to up it to 60 for the winter.
Tonight:
FC 7.2
CC 0.2
PH 7.5
CSI -0.28
Upping my SWG by 10% got my FC and CC back to the comfort zone.
PH still won't climb.
At least I'm finally above -0.3
This is very good with respect to how much I'm going to like AquaBrite--high TA, yet very little acid demand!
I don't like the CSI being this negative for this long, mostly because I don't know any better either way.
But at least I'm in the CSI zone finally.
Looks great! CSI at -0.3 is totally fine. No worries at all. Thanks for the updates!
Ok. Cool. Thanks. I'll still test 2x a day untill that PH comes up more.
I forgot got to mention Borates are at ~45. So that may be helping to suppress the PH rise too. I would have thought after 20 years, plaster would be fairly inert. Not compared to the AquaBright.
Bottom line, so far this stiff is awesome. My overall goal was to get it to be stable enough that if you don't look at it for a week, it won't be far enough out to matter. I think I may get there.
I forgot got to mention Borates are at ~45. So that may be helping to suppress the PH rise too. I would have thought after 20 years, plaster would be fairly inert. Not compared to the AquaBright.
Bottom line, so far this stiff is awesome. My overall goal was to get it to be stable enough that if you don't look at it for a week, it won't be far enough out to matter. I think I may get there.
LOVE the color! So what did you have to do to the pretty tiles to keep them safe from the heat?
Kim
Kim
LOVE the color! So what did you have to do to the pretty tiles to keep them safe from the heat?
Kim
EcoFinish provides the masking materials. It appears to be fiberglass masking tape for the details, and a roll of what I think is high temp silicone for the pool edge that is about a foot wide.
Ok!
PH finally just about up to 7.6. So I dialed up the IntelliPH up to 10%. It was mostly keeping up at 55% before the AquaBright, now I think 10% will be a bit high.
FC is up to 8.2, so Im dialing that down by 5%.
Already more stability than I expected.
Robot filter alarm came on, but after 3 days. About 75% less blue dust. My goal is to get 1 week or 7 runs without having to clean the filter. I may get there in a week or two. Fingers crossed.
PH finally just about up to 7.6. So I dialed up the IntelliPH up to 10%. It was mostly keeping up at 55% before the AquaBright, now I think 10% will be a bit high.
FC is up to 8.2, so Im dialing that down by 5%.
Already more stability than I expected.
Robot filter alarm came on, but after 3 days. About 75% less blue dust. My goal is to get 1 week or 7 runs without having to clean the filter. I may get there in a week or two. Fingers crossed.
PH holding at 7.6 and IPH at 10%, despite the hi TA. So my thinking is, keep the TA high to keep the CSI above -0.3, and this is not a lot of MA to add.
FC is 7.4. So I'll tweak that by a couple percent.
FC is 7.4. So I'll tweak that by a couple percent.
- May 23, 2015
- 24,647
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Cut your pump runtime not your SWG output. You save more $$$ that way. I'm down to 30% output at 3 hours/day pump runtime.
