Getting Water Right After Drain

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Modawg2k

Modawg2k

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May 4, 2013
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Phoenix, AZ
Let the draining begin!

Starting on my drain right now. I'm draining to get my CH back down from the 900 level it's been at. If I remember right, I've read a few opinions on this site about draining all the way vs draining partial. I'm curious to hear any more fresh thoughts on which way to go.
 
Re: Let the draining begin!

Do you know what your water table level is? Also, if you have had a lot of rain recently, I would be leery of doing a full drain & refill. It would be safer to do a drain until you are at about 50% and then drain while simultaneously refilling. The key is to maintain an equilibrium between draining and refilling so that the water stays close to the 50% level. This process would remove a good amount of the current water with the full drain up to the 50% mark while avoiding the risk of the pool floating. At the point where you have drained enough of the old water out, you can stop the draining and continue the refill process until you reach the desired fill level.
 
Re: Let the draining begin!

Hey guys, the water table is pretty low here in Phoenix. Also, if we had any rain lately it was very minimal. And the tap CH here is around 200. The first 3 years of this pool weren't monitored well so that perhaps why water got a little off with CH. Does that info change any thoughts of full drain vs partial like you guys were discussing?
 
I'm in the middle of a partial to full drain (I haven't decided) and I was curious about what to do afterwards to get chemistries back in line. Is it as simple as adding the standard chemicals based off poolcalculator recommendations?
 
If you do a full drain treat it as a fresh fill.
If you do a partial drain fill it back up and test to see where the levels are and adjust from there.

Does that seem logical ?


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Re: Let the draining begin!

You just might be able to take that rascal down to just leaving a foot or so in the lower middle part then. But we need an expert to chime back in.
 

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