Hi,
I help my parents take care of their their Pool and have a quick question. We had the water tested today:
Saturation idx 0.4
TDS 4800
CYA 116
Tot. Chlorine 4.6
Free Chlorine 4
PH 8.1
Tot Alkalinity 99
Adj. Total Alk 64
Total Hardness 213
Salt 3200
The pool store says that the saturation index is high and that I need to to add 26.5 lbs of balance pak 100, then add 6.75 lbs Lo 'N Slo and then 7 bags of burnout3 to eliminate the combined chlorine. The water is clear and looks good, but I do not want to do anything that will hurt the newer plaster that was recently done. So far I have only used Murtic Acid to adjust the PH to 7.5. Do you think I need to add more alkalinity or do I need to just shock the pool with bleach? The pool was filled with well water that has little to no minerals. The pool has been monitored via test strips and monthly pool store analysis. I will be getting a test kit soon. I checked and saw that Burnout 3 is 1lb of 47% Calcium hypochlorite. Using the Pool Calculator it says that 7 bags will bring up the Chlorine to 15, but I noticed that with the data I put in the pool calculator, it says shock level is 27.
Thanks for your help!
I help my parents take care of their their Pool and have a quick question. We had the water tested today:
Saturation idx 0.4
TDS 4800
CYA 116
Tot. Chlorine 4.6
Free Chlorine 4
PH 8.1
Tot Alkalinity 99
Adj. Total Alk 64
Total Hardness 213
Salt 3200
The pool store says that the saturation index is high and that I need to to add 26.5 lbs of balance pak 100, then add 6.75 lbs Lo 'N Slo and then 7 bags of burnout3 to eliminate the combined chlorine. The water is clear and looks good, but I do not want to do anything that will hurt the newer plaster that was recently done. So far I have only used Murtic Acid to adjust the PH to 7.5. Do you think I need to add more alkalinity or do I need to just shock the pool with bleach? The pool was filled with well water that has little to no minerals. The pool has been monitored via test strips and monthly pool store analysis. I will be getting a test kit soon. I checked and saw that Burnout 3 is 1lb of 47% Calcium hypochlorite. Using the Pool Calculator it says that 7 bags will bring up the Chlorine to 15, but I noticed that with the data I put in the pool calculator, it says shock level is 27.
Thanks for your help!