FULL working kitchen?????????? What will be your first meal from it? After swimming of course!
Kim
Kim
Pool has been unused at least 2 years....
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Well, turkey sammiches tonight... I dare not touch my wife's new appliances after being installed. We lucked up and caught Kenmore Elite appliances 50% off, and I am not going to be the one to mess one up first. Whatever she cooks, I will eat and be happy it isn't a cold sandwich or fast food.
Quick picture I took this morning. I will have a proper update if this rain ever stops and we can finish cleaning the jungle around the pool. You can clearly see the stains, they just give the pool character. The important part is the water feels GREAT.
Thanks for the update. No assumptions, but it's possible some of those will fade a little with time and FC in the pool.
How does the surface feel? I am so glad the water feels good! You sure worked hard to get it there!
Kim
Kim
The surface feels better than I expected. I don't remember what a new plaster surfaces feels like... It is very consistent, slightly grippy, I guess it is the consistency of sanded grout.
Stains, really don't care about at all. Looks like a faux finish on the bottom of the pool. The mud brown stains are gone already. Some guy was trying to sell me on "stain out" or some miracle drug. I know some acid treatments will remove some stains, but I am not in the mood right now.
Stains, really don't care about at all. Looks like a faux finish on the bottom of the pool. The mud brown stains are gone already. Some guy was trying to sell me on "stain out" or some miracle drug. I know some acid treatments will remove some stains, but I am not in the mood right now.
There are treatments (sequestrants) that help with stains, but they don't technically remove the metal. They suspend the metal in the water so that you can't see them.
Here is some reading material, you can tackle this when you've finished everything else and have free time:
Pool School - Metals in the Water and Metal Stains
Here is some reading material, you can tackle this when you've finished everything else and have free time:
Pool School - Metals in the Water and Metal Stains
I am with you that it does not look bad at all. I am glad the surface feels good on your feet. The roughness will keep you from slipping!
Have fun swimming!
kim
Have fun swimming!
kim
Thanks for the link, I have read it. I am all to aware of all the treatments to get rid of the stains. I think it is stained sufficiently enough to look good. I will call it art and when my son comes home all sticky and hot from summer camp I will throw him in the pool and nobody will really care about the stains. Thanks everyone with the help, I will preach the methods. My friends had jokes about all my bleach bottles...
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So, everything is going great with the pool... with exception of PH.
My PH keeps climbing off the charts. I add HCL and it will bring it down for a day, next day it is back off the charts. I am still running my pump 24X7 as a precaution to make sure EVERYTHING is dead in the pipes, and I have a feeling my main drain (yes I have one!) is slowly unclogging. It is starting to collect debris around it and a few times my filter has jumped from 10 PSI to 20+, I think it is gunk that has been stuck in the main drain line that broke loose.
The only thing I can think of that is causing the PH to raise is constant aeration. I am only adding bleach right now. I want to get some more Calcium in the pool, it is 225-250 but I would like to get PH in line. HCL is cheap, but not that cheap to put in daily.
We are keeping FC between 5-7 right now, we are loosing 1-2 ppm a day
CYA best guess is 30, I hate that test
My PH keeps climbing off the charts. I add HCL and it will bring it down for a day, next day it is back off the charts. I am still running my pump 24X7 as a precaution to make sure EVERYTHING is dead in the pipes, and I have a feeling my main drain (yes I have one!) is slowly unclogging. It is starting to collect debris around it and a few times my filter has jumped from 10 PSI to 20+, I think it is gunk that has been stuck in the main drain line that broke loose.
The only thing I can think of that is causing the PH to raise is constant aeration. I am only adding bleach right now. I want to get some more Calcium in the pool, it is 225-250 but I would like to get PH in line. HCL is cheap, but not that cheap to put in daily.
We are keeping FC between 5-7 right now, we are loosing 1-2 ppm a day
CYA best guess is 30, I hate that test
What is your TA level? High TA can cause PH to rise.
Here is the process to lower TA, Pool School - Lower Total Alkalinity
Here is the process to lower TA, Pool School - Lower Total Alkalinity
TA is 130, which isn't terribly high. I brought PH down to a color that I would put between 7.2-7.5. FC is 5.5-6
What is causing the aeration? Yes that can cause PH to go up. In fact that is how I do it when I need higher PH. I turn my return up so it rolls the water good.
That is neat that the main drain is unclogging. Just keep an eye on the filter in case something big comes out to visit LOL
Kim
That is neat that the main drain is unclogging. Just keep an eye on the filter in case something big comes out to visit LOL
Kim
It has rained every day for the past 2 weeks, and in addition squirt guns are very popular with the 7 year old demographic. Also, my return pump only has one setting, it is always rolling the water pretty good. I am going to step it back, I need to get some of the little time setters for my timer. I want to set it to go on a few hours twice a day.
TA of 130 isn't terribly high, but it is high enough that lowering could help reduce PH rise. If you add acid regularly to keep PH at 7.2 then the aeration will will raise it and TA will reduce.
So basically keep HCL on hand and adjust PH and eventually I will reach an equilibrium? I do plan on adding borax to the pool, from what I understand I should get TA closer to 100 before I do that.
