Just joined looking for information to maintain our pool and getting ready to close it for the season. The pool was already here when we bought the place about 7 years ago. We have gotten by for the most part and have been pretty lax with upkeep. We would use the old style vacuum to sweep and for closing we would use a tarp with weights around the perimeter.
With that little bit of back story I decided I wanted to do things a little better this year. I recently purchase a Dolphin Nautilus Plus for sweeping duties and have a custom safety cover on the way. It would never fail each spring we would end up with water that smelled like a swamp on top of the pool cover and have frogs and tadpoles swimming around. Not gonna happen again. Right now though trying to get the pool ready for closing nobody has used it in a few weeks and the water is a little cloudy. Been running the Nautilus the last two days and leaving the pool filter on.
Just got the TFT-100 test kit today and here are the readings I got.
FC: 8.5
CC: 0.5
TC: 9
Total Alkalinity: 110
CYA: 90
Daily kit: Chlorine read 5 and PH was good at 7.5
With that little bit of back story I decided I wanted to do things a little better this year. I recently purchase a Dolphin Nautilus Plus for sweeping duties and have a custom safety cover on the way. It would never fail each spring we would end up with water that smelled like a swamp on top of the pool cover and have frogs and tadpoles swimming around. Not gonna happen again. Right now though trying to get the pool ready for closing nobody has used it in a few weeks and the water is a little cloudy. Been running the Nautilus the last two days and leaving the pool filter on.
Just got the TFT-100 test kit today and here are the readings I got.
FC: 8.5
CC: 0.5
TC: 9
Total Alkalinity: 110
CYA: 90
Daily kit: Chlorine read 5 and PH was good at 7.5