) I wasn't going to laugh at that, but you urned it.
Grass has grown over the top. It keeps settling down further into the ground. You wouldn't look at it and ever think...wow...that's a pile of DE.
lol...yeah...a really big one...can hold the remains of the entire family, and then some...
You could send it to the Old Filter's Home.. Then you could make a bunt cake and visit it every Sunday!
Get used to the chlorine first? an SWG is already chlorine.. That it like saying I want to do it the hard way first so I can really appreciate the easy way... Do you go to the dentist and say.. "Hey Doc, no Novocaine for the first 30 min.. then I can really appreciate it for the rest of the appointment!"... Or my wife that thought Natural was the way to go..That lasted for all of 10 minutes, and for the other 3 kids we ordered the pain-killer-cocktail right after passing the Popsicle stick test.
I realize that. As I mentioned, I'm just reporting what was suggested to me here!
My brother always asks to not be given novocaine. He'd rather just deal with it rather than the effects of the novocaine. To each his own.
It was my idea that was threefold. First it would erase any of his old concerns that were held onto for decades about chlorine. Secondly it would teach him to manually treat if there was ever a problem with the SWG. Third, to appease his blind investment concerns, he could pull the plug at much less cost if his fears proved true (which we all KNOW and trust won’t be the case, but he is on the fence so he doesn’t).
... chlorine is chlorine. How it gets in the pool maybe different. But its managed more or less the same. Test, and adjust.
I sure couldn't (and wouldn't) do it. Sorry...my goof.. I could have sworn I posted the initial question on the water chemistry/testing part of the forum. Maybe it was moved under baqua?
Sure...the answer is to use pool math to calculate exactly how much pH decreaser or increaser is needed. That said, however, I assume the adjustment amounts are geared to adding whatever non-pool-store products are needed. Otherwise, not sure the calibrations would be the same (when using pool store formulations). I think I'm good with just knowing that darker than 8 is not where any of us want to be. I suspect this season, with having discontinued the aqua finesse tablets, that I won't have the pH bounce of recent years. During the off season is a bit more of a crapshoot cause surely swirling the water around with a paddle and only 1/4 of the cover off is obviously not like running the circulation system. So the reading I get is probably not all that accurate. I at least get some peace of mind to be monitoring as best I can between October and April.
Yup. Perfect !!! 8 or more needs adjusting. The only downfall is that you can’t know it’s an 8.6 and when you adjust downward from 8, you will be above target still. Which is where the testing to prove the addition comes in. (After pump mixing for 20 min). Still 8+ ? Hit it again. Ahhhhh. Ok it worked this time.
Pool store and non-pool store products are almost certainly going to be exactly the same. If you look on pool store package of Alkalinity Increaser and it says it's sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydrogen carbonate then that's the same thing as baking soda from any grocery store and will work exactly the same way for the same amounts.
Formulations as in Chemicals or as in calculations? For Calculations use the Pool Math app here... for Chemicals, they are likely the same.. they are more expensive at pool stores because it says "For pools" on the package. Its Marketing. Otherwise stay away from anything that is a blend of stuff.. most of the the time its a blend of some kind of copper coated algaecide that will turn you and yours blue. Just stay with the basics... Ya know.. I've been hanging here for going on a decade.. and I still reference this stuff:
www.troublefreepool.com
Mark and J.....thanks. I didn't know if it would be exactly the same amounts. The instructions on many of the pool store containers are rather nebulous anyway.
