Here in central Texas, we just ended 42 days of consecutive 100+ days. I've been struggling to keep the FC levels up and algae at bay in my pool (IG/Plaster/15K). I use the Pool Math app, but I'm not sure it allows for extreme heat in its calculations for FC and CYA. Any recommendations?
Maintaining FC level in 100+ degree heat
- Thread starter bevnrandy
- Start date
- Jun 1, 2018
- 13,770
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
- May 3, 2014
- 58,475
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Welcome to the forum!
You maintain the FC in the target level. Yes, with higher water temperatures and/or increased UV, your daily loss of FC may be a bit more. You may need to raise your CYA level by a little. But those are things for you to understand, not the app to figure out.
The climate our pool is in is far more extreme than Texas sees. And I know the FC loss each day can reach nearly 5 ppm during the peak of UV. Which also correlates to 120F+ daytime high temperatures.
I suggest you read through Pool Care Basics - Trouble Free Pool and even look at a few of our videos TFP-TV - Trouble Free Pool
You maintain the FC in the target level. Yes, with higher water temperatures and/or increased UV, your daily loss of FC may be a bit more. You may need to raise your CYA level by a little. But those are things for you to understand, not the app to figure out.
The climate our pool is in is far more extreme than Texas sees. And I know the FC loss each day can reach nearly 5 ppm during the peak of UV. Which also correlates to 120F+ daytime high temperatures.
I suggest you read through Pool Care Basics - Trouble Free Pool and even look at a few of our videos TFP-TV - Trouble Free Pool
- Jun 22, 2014
- 47,854
- Pool Size
- 17888
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
B&R, consider linking your Poolmath test results to TFP so we can see all your water testing history. There's a profile menu option in the APP that will allow you to do that.
Also be sure to update your signature. See ours as examples.
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- Jun 1, 2018
- 13,770
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Depending on what your current cya level is you may need to increase it to help protect the chlorine from the sun a little more as Marty suggested but you eluded to “keeping algae at bay” so not sure if you mean that you have been having algae/cloudy water.
Before raising cya I suggest you do an Overnight Chlorine Loss Test to rule out a problem first which is more easily dealt with at lower cya levels.
Before raising cya I suggest you do an Overnight Chlorine Loss Test to rule out a problem first which is more easily dealt with at lower cya levels.