When you get the new o-rings make sure to use lube made for them on them. My guess is you could have lubed your old o-rings and they would have worked but lets start with the new ones. You can buy it at Lowes or the pool store.
Magic Lube is normally available at Lowes or Home Depot.
Are you sure? Check the testing protocol. If true, your water would stink of chlorine.FC: ~6.5
CC: ~6.5
Are you sure? Check the testing protocol. If true, your water would stink of chlorine.
You could also see about diverting some rain water off the roof into your pool to help dilute the water that way.
Do you have high water rates where you live? Is that your worry about replacing that much water?
Kim
So your CYA is 100? I would be wary of that, you’d have to keep your FC very high for it to be effective with that level of CYA. You may want to do some of the replacement to bring it down, or you will have a hard time avoiding an eventual algae bloom.
CYA does break down over time but slowly, like 5-10 PPM per month, and if you have splashout / backwash removing water and add fresh water it will drop slightly too, so if you want you could try to keep the chlorine up with liquid chlorine only and wait a few months. You might get lucky and get no algae bloom, and then as CYA slowly drops you could keep the chlorine more in check. Up to you!
OUCH!!! Yeah we need to find a way for you to harvest rain water!!! Share a pic from the back of the pool looking towards the house. We might be able to come up with some ideas how to set it up where it does not look too bad.water bill was > $300 (for 3 months) vs. like $70 for normal 3 months, plus that $300 was WITH a 1-time-a-year discount