Hi everyone! I've done quite a bit of browsing the forums but decided to go ahead and become part of the community. I have a couple of questions I'll post in the appropriate places, for now... a little about me!
I am a relatively new pool owner; we bought our first home (and first pool!) in July 2015. It's been quite an adventure so far, involving persistent black algae, a filter with enough DE packed in it to build a small sand castle (algae cleared up after we got *that* taken care of), a worn out spider gasket, an overflow during a crazy rainstorm, an accidental draining after leaving the filter in waste mode overnight, frogs, frogs, more frogs and spending $100+ on chemicals every time I took my water to the pool store for testing... ugh! It's the last one that hurts the most, I think.
No more, I say. No more! Although I still have some leftover 'traditional' pool chemicals I would like to use up, I'm committed to giving the TFP method a try. I bought a Taylor K-2006 kit this week (arriving tomorrow, yay!) and am looking forward to seeing how the water is doing. The test kit the previous owners passed down only does pH, Chlorine & Alkalinity. I've had a lot of trouble keeping chlorine levels up but I think I finally solved that mystery a couple weeks ago when I learned I could put more than one chlorine tablet in my automatic feeder at a time.
Anyway, in spite of the huge learning curve, I'm looking forward to finding some steady footing as time passes and (most importantly) swimming my way through the warm months. I also look forward to chatting with people here! Thanks for reading.
I am a relatively new pool owner; we bought our first home (and first pool!) in July 2015. It's been quite an adventure so far, involving persistent black algae, a filter with enough DE packed in it to build a small sand castle (algae cleared up after we got *that* taken care of), a worn out spider gasket, an overflow during a crazy rainstorm, an accidental draining after leaving the filter in waste mode overnight, frogs, frogs, more frogs and spending $100+ on chemicals every time I took my water to the pool store for testing... ugh! It's the last one that hurts the most, I think.
No more, I say. No more! Although I still have some leftover 'traditional' pool chemicals I would like to use up, I'm committed to giving the TFP method a try. I bought a Taylor K-2006 kit this week (arriving tomorrow, yay!) and am looking forward to seeing how the water is doing. The test kit the previous owners passed down only does pH, Chlorine & Alkalinity. I've had a lot of trouble keeping chlorine levels up but I think I finally solved that mystery a couple weeks ago when I learned I could put more than one chlorine tablet in my automatic feeder at a time.
Anyway, in spite of the huge learning curve, I'm looking forward to finding some steady footing as time passes and (most importantly) swimming my way through the warm months. I also look forward to chatting with people here! Thanks for reading.
While we can't control the weather, we can do a pretty good job controlling the condition of our water in TFP. If your pool is still cloudy or showing signs of algae, then you might as well study-up on the SLAM page (link below in my sig). That's what you'll use. The K-2006 is a very nice product. Did you happen to get the "C" model (more reagents)? The kit the previous owners left may be good to test pH and TA for now. You might try that - especially pH.