Maybe I have bad acid... but I've been pouring in about a gallon of acid per day for the past week.
This morning, I literally poured 2 gallons of 34% acid into the pool, and am going to dump in another 3 gallons tonight to try to get this pool below 8.0 ph.
Pool this morning... 8.2. Poured acid in and tested 1 hour later. 8.0.
Right now it is 8.1.
There is no sprinklers or aeration going on. I have a ariel but those 2 tiny paddles can't be ramping up the PH that much. I do have a SWG but that runs maybe 5 or 6 hours at night.
Pumps been running at about 1650 rpm the past week.
We replaced the entirety of the water as I did a acid wash of the pool (had a company do that).
I should not be dumping in that much acid in a month, let alone a day.
The rest of the chemical tests come back fine. CYA at 60, Alkalinity's fine.. borates are fine.
Its a 30,000 gallon pool.. ran all the water through a water filter before it hit the pool. Cleaned out the water filter also.
Any thoughts as to why I can't seem to get the PH to go down? What possible chemical inbalance could cause a pool to constantly spike PH?
Now note: My pool's always had rising PH but I've been able to drop it with maybe 2 or 3 cups of acid... but not 2 to 3 gallons of it. Am I missing something?
This morning, I literally poured 2 gallons of 34% acid into the pool, and am going to dump in another 3 gallons tonight to try to get this pool below 8.0 ph.
Pool this morning... 8.2. Poured acid in and tested 1 hour later. 8.0.
Right now it is 8.1.
There is no sprinklers or aeration going on. I have a ariel but those 2 tiny paddles can't be ramping up the PH that much. I do have a SWG but that runs maybe 5 or 6 hours at night.
Pumps been running at about 1650 rpm the past week.
We replaced the entirety of the water as I did a acid wash of the pool (had a company do that).
I should not be dumping in that much acid in a month, let alone a day.
The rest of the chemical tests come back fine. CYA at 60, Alkalinity's fine.. borates are fine.
Its a 30,000 gallon pool.. ran all the water through a water filter before it hit the pool. Cleaned out the water filter also.
Any thoughts as to why I can't seem to get the PH to go down? What possible chemical inbalance could cause a pool to constantly spike PH?
Now note: My pool's always had rising PH but I've been able to drop it with maybe 2 or 3 cups of acid... but not 2 to 3 gallons of it. Am I missing something?