I don't add calcium every day. I add about a 2 bags of CalHypo every week sometimes a bit more frequent. I just refilled my pool and Calcium was in the 80s to begin with. I usually drain my pool every two years to avoid high Calcium numbers.Welcome to TFP!
Not do derail the topic, but I'm curious how are you managing your CH levels? Most people in Arizona have trouble keeping their CH down when using liquid chlorine or an SWG, it must really rise fast if you're adding calcium every day.
I only see those 2 options. I'm not talking about the options to know how much to add but the Sanitiser type question that is under Settings.Hey Cilo and Welcome !!!!
To see the other options, including several strengths of cal-hypo, scroll down the list.
wouldnt this mean that as long as you break the film and there is sufficient FC that the algae should die once agitated? So if you agitate the whole pool once, it should all die and you could clear the pool in a day?If you've broken the biofilm and allowed chlorine to get to the algae, I doubt the biofilm can recover again that fast.
I disagree that sand doesn't wear out. The pool I inherited when I bought my house was really having no effect on filtering the water. I took the valve off the sand filter and found the sand grains to be completely smooth and round, totally unlike pool sand which is "spikey" all over. It's possible they used the wrong sand, sooooo much was wrong with my pool that very little would have surprised me.It was against my recommendation. Hubby did these things while I was at work. I take care of the water testing and reading the forums to take care of the pool without a pool store. However, he did see that my testing is accurate! The pool store sold him the clarifier, but the sand was totally his idea. I told him that sand never wears out and just needs cleaning, which is what he was supposed to be doing. He saw the sand was dirty and had black stuff in it so he changed it out. And now it’s clear![]()
Can you post pictures of your pad before we weigh in...in general, you want your flow switch to be horizontal or best case on the up flow. I don't think it matters on the cell, but let's see what you have.
Great to know. I'll experiment with lower speeds.Mine runs down to 6-700RPM. Every pool is different, but I'd be surprised you have to run that high.
Easier said than done - seems most of my work trips to India are in off-season, so I'm gone for 7-12 days at a time. The wife forgets to add chlorine, and I mostly forget to remind her when I'm traveling. I'm actually kind of nervous of a 12 day trip I have in July. Hoping not to come home to a green swamp.Living in the PHX area, you shouldn't need to do a SLAM every May.
Just maintain the pool in the off season just as you do the rest of the year. In the off season, it takes very little time and effort to do.
Obviously still waiting on my test kit but wanted to share that I added 128oz of 10% liquid chlorine a few hours ago. Tested with a strip (that’s all I have at the moment) a few minutes ago and zero FC reading.Welcome to TFP!
Add 3-5 ppm of liquid chlorine daily until your test kit arrives and you can provide quality, accurate numbers.
Use PoolMath to determine how much liquid chlorine that is, based on your pool volume and strength of liquid chlorine.
2 inches of water in a pool your size is equal to about 800 gallons, or 3% of your total pool volume.probably 2” of rain. So it’s getting diluted