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Thank you for the help! I was able to cancel the Ice Melt as it has not shipped yet, so I will leave my calcium levels low and just keep the alkalinity and PH where they need to be. I will aerate the pool to raise the PH from where it is currently. I have a bubbler we use in the pond. I can put...

I thought the point of the Taylor test kit was to attain balanced water. When the calcium level is low (70) it is very hard to reach a balance with the alkalinity at 120. According to the little wheel I got with the test kit I would need to keep the PH at around 8 with those numbers to have...

Hmmm, when I contacted the pool store and asked about muratic acid he said the PH Down is totally safe for SWG and safer to use. Not sure I will be able to find Salt Melt this time of year, but I can give that a try. Would I use ounces or pounds to inch up the CH? Not sure how much calcium it...

Hi There, I have been battling yellow/green water all summer with very high alkalinity. I finally got it down to 120, but with super low CH, my water balance, according to the little wheel that came with the Taylor test kit, is -.8. My PH is also quite low now that the alkalinity is adjusted...

Thank you for your help. I had not considered the vinegar smell that the pool would acquire with agricultural vinegar. I will get the appropriate item to adjust the PH with the salt water generator in mind. As far as emptying the pool, I did that earlier this year and the yellow algae came...

Two questions for you all, hoping you can help: First (easy question, I hope): I need to balance PH with an acid. My CYA is already high (85-90 range), and I read that using the dry acids can increase CYA, which I would like to avoid. I have a bottle of "PH Down", which I assume is dry acid...

I called Lowes this evening to see if they still had pool chemicals in stock, but they don't. I am going to go to Walmart tomorrow to see what I can find since they do still have chemicals in stock. It never occurred to me to check Walmart or a home improvement store! Still hoping I can...

My test kit does not have a CH measure to check the calcium specifically, but I do have a "total hardness" indicator, and it is pretty high (500). Right now, the pool to seriously out of whack since the SWG has not been working for some time. Yesterday I shocked it and the free chlorine is still...

YippeeSkippy, Keizer is in Oregon. We are between the coast and the Cascade Range, so we have a very mild climate, but it can get pretty hot during the summer...today is about 98 degrees in the shade, but was supposed to be 106, so I'm thankful! :)

This year I installed a SWG with my Game SandPro 35D sand filter. My pool is approximately 2222 gallons. I noticed a while ago that salt seemed to be building up on the plates of the SWG. For the past week I have been getting "low pump flow" notifications, and the system shuts down. I have...

I found TFP while trying to determine how to set up my SWG system and have found it very helpful. I am an avid swimmer, but perhaps unconventional. I don't like chemicals and given the option, I would swim in a nice, clean lake or river. However, since that is not practical, I have opted for a...