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That TA is a total mystery to me. I checked it twice. I don't know how it could fall that much. My fill water is very high TA and my auto-fill has been adding water daily (no rain here). I can't imagine how it went from 90 to 60. I've never seen that happen before. Thanks for your help and...

Tested TA again. TA = 60. TC remains = 9. Added two drops of R-007 and tied the PH test again. It did not wash out this time and read 7.4. Tried the PH test again without adding R-0007 and it turned purple so it is clearly the chlorine level washing out the PH test. This baffles me because this...

I've seen the PH test wash out like that during a slam but my chlorine is currently only 9 (just tested again with the DPD test). I'm thinking something else they added is causing the same issue with the PH test. I wish I knew what. I'm glad I told them not to add acid. This is the stuff they...

Tested again. FC is now 9 and CC is now 1. I don't have a PH meter, only the Taylor PH test which is included with the K-2006 test kit (I'm using the R-0004 reagent to be specific). I took a bucket of pool water and added a tiny bit of PH up to it to see what would happen. Same result. Purple...

Last I checked, FC and CC were the same (11 FC and 0 CC). I did not check the TA after they dumped all of this in. I'll check that and see if it changed.

I maintain my own chemicals and have for many years. I've never had an issue. I use a pool company for opening and closing and normally ask them not to put any chemicals in. Today they arrived to close the pool and misunderstood my request for no additional chemicals. Something they did caused...

I found this thread because I'm having the same problem. I was starting to think I had a leak in my pool because I can't understand how my CYA went from 60 down to 40 in 10 days. The leak theory is out because I turned off my auto-fill and it has not rained but my CYA still went down. Full...

I followed what Buckman labs told Chemgeek. I believe the problem is that I have a salt water pool which demands higher chlorine levels (due to the higher CYA). Waiting for the pool to fall back 1/2 way to normal level would take 2 weeks at these levels and would likely still have been too high...

I've had zero problems with my chemicals all summer. I've never had a hint of combined chlorine. I'm winterizing today and suddenly I have combined chlorine. What I did: 1) I brought the PH down to 7.4 and added 7 of the 121 oz bottles of Chlorox 8.25% bleach from Costco. Measured Chlorine at...

I have the same question. I'm a new SWG pool owner. My CYA is 80 per this site and the manual for the SWG. unfortunately, a SLAM for winterization is not really practical at this CYA level for an SWG pool. What do other SWG pool owners do for the winter? I can't see adding 1,350 oz of bleach to...

I'm an owner of a new 800 square foot free form IG pool. We'd like to purchase a custom safety cover for the winter. The PB quoted us the following for a Loop-Loc brand custom cover: $6,509.52 for mesh $7,520.40 for solid with drain panels $7,548.48 for solid (does not include pump) This...

I'm in IL where our soil is all clay and the pool builder used crushed rock under the gunite.