Help with Evaluation of Pool Equipment

[Valdeselad]

Your PH, TA, and CH levels are all too high, which is a recipe for calcium scaling. PH is the easiest one to lower in the short run, so you should lower PH to around 7.2 as soon as possible. Longer term you need to work on getting TA down, and think about replacing water (which isn't crucial just yet if you can get PH and TA down).

Unless you have a SWG, your FC level is too low. Without a SWG FC should be 4+, so it is too low. With a SWG FC should be 2+, so it is good now.

@JasonLion - thank you for the quick comments. There is a SWG as part of the equipment but we discovered it is not functioning so chlorine tabs were being used in the pool up to now. We are wanting to move away from that method so we feel like we have more control.

We've got our PoolMath calculator up and we were going to start by addressing the FC tomorrow by adding some bleach and work on the pH by adding the muriatic acid. Hopefully by adding the muriatic we will also lower the TA somewhat.

I don't want to even think about draining the pool. :calm: