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Hi all - Working on getting my pool up & running, here are the current stats: FC 6 CC 0 pH 8.2 (just added MA) TA 126 TH 210 CYA 3 I know my CYA is low, I replaced our water last year, used Bleach exclusively except when we camped for a week, and our CYA creeped up all summer. Is there a...

I bumped up the FC last night to 26, performed ONCL at 11:00pm and 6am with no loss. I am still seeing a CC of .5 - This is unusual for our pool (though I understand it is in the realm of "ok), remind me again what CC means/is? Thoughts? Changed out our filter sand yesterday, it has made a...

Hey gang - So I have been SLAMing the pool for about 5.5 days and I am feeling a little doubtful that I know what I am doing. CYA 50 FC 15 (trying to keep above 20) CC 0 (the entire time it has never been higher than .5) pH 8.2 (though the FC is so high, I know this is skewed) Alk 90 CH 200...

Our filter calls for #20 Silica Sand - is this different than pool sand?

Hey there helpful people, Looks like its time to replace the Zeobrite in our sand filter. We purchased the home 3 years ago and the sand at that time was about 5 years old. Lately we are seeing sand on the bottom of the pool coming from the cleaning heads. Given that we need about 600lbs of...

I'm converted, thank you! In years past we have opened the pool to a murky swamp, what a difference! Here are the stats: FC .5 CC 0 pH 8.0 Alk 70 CYA 60 CH 220 Pool water is clear, a few leaves, etc on bottom. Since we aren't dealing with a total mess on our hands I feel a little wary of how...

Pool looks great - clear, blue, beautiful. Thinking of firing up the heater, here are our #s - wanted to make sure it's safe to swim: FC - 7.5 pH - 7.6 TA - 70 CH - 290 CYA - 40

Good morning - Did our levels last night and this morning, per the OCLT instructions - total FC loss is somewhere btw .5-1. I did the test a couple of times to make sure it was accurate. Water conditions (Aqua/turquoise - Still cloudy, though we can see our filter heads at the bottom of the...

Hi there - we are definitely seeing progress here - thank you so much for your guidance. Overnight our FC held. Our FC dropped 6ppm throughout the day - I wasn't home to keep up on it today as I have been every day since Sunday.. This evening our FC - 20 TC - 20 pH - 7.2 TA - 70 CH - 150 CYA...

Good morning - well, since starting our treatment midday Sunday I can definitely say I am seeing an improvement - though not out of the weeds yet! My numbers this morning: FC 24.5 CC 0 pH 7.5 TA 50 CH 169 CYA - 75 (I have run this test a few times, after thoroughly reading test advice on TFP...

So I just checked our numbers again - and our FC is up above where it was supposed to be the last time I added bleach (I've been shocking at 18, now it is at 20) - and then I mentioned it to my husband and he said that our automatic chlorinator is still running, adding tri-chlor to our pool, in...

Just checked again for the third time - this time the FC dropped from our shock level of 18 to 17 over the course of an hour. Can't say we have much CC to speak of, the test water has just barely a tinge of pink so I assume our levels are between 0-0.5. My question is when should we start...

So we started shocking the pool pretty hard this afternoon - before shocking: FC - 5.5 TC - 6 pH - 7.2 TA - 40 CH - 169 CYA - 40 After the first hit of bleach, tested 30min after application FC - 18 TC - 18 So now, as I understand, we wait until is has been 1 hr, test again and see if the...

oh geez - just found it - thank you!

is there a place on the forum that tells us where our numbers should be ideally? Like what my ideal TA and CH are, or how to determine that based on our numbers?

Raising TA Merged topics to retain history. Please keep all posts here until pool clears. :) Butterfly According to the pool calculator we need to add 30lbs of Bicarb - do we dump this into the pool all at once? As we raise the TA, will our pH rise as well? cheers,

I test at home and took the water to the pool supply store, tests seemed to line up - my CYA test came back around 50, their test 33

We just opened our pool and our water is green, deep green, cannot see the bottom in the deep end. We replaced 3/4 of our water last summer due to a very high CYA. Looking at our numbers, not sure where to start to get us in balance. Throughout the summer we use bleach as our source of...