Ok pool peeps so I'm new to the site and very happy to have found it.
My quest for answers can hopefully be found by all the knowledgeable ppl here.
I will try to keep this as short as I can but in essence my pool water wasn't nice and clear like it has been last summer. This year has been consistently warm (32-40deg C most days).
With a lot of bather action and not really understanding up until now that CYA affects what my baseline FC should be and how much PH etc can affect other chemical efficiencies I was finding that it wasn't taking much to upset the balance.
So after searching online endlessly for information and reading forum posts I went to my local pool shop a couple of days ago to test my water...this was the results.
FC =3.91
TC=5.00
PH=7.2
TA=84
CYA=51
TDS=4229
CA=290
PO=0.945
So was told to buy starver as phosphate level too high and also buy non chlorine shock...so back home at 9.30am..dumped in 250ml of starver and in the afternoon decided to put in 500g of non CH shock, trying to drop my CC level.( which for some reason made my ORP readings plummet and put my system into overdrive making CH , tested with DPD tab and couldn't get reading-clear).
Kept pump running all night and day and was slightly clearer in morn, CH back up but still needed to be bumped up so I decided to follow the steps on how to properly work out how much chlorine to slam with the readings I had and dose last night with liquid CH.
And these are my reading from another water test this afternoon.
FC=3.99
TC=3.99
PH=7.1
TA=84
CYA=41
TDS=4950
CA=256
PO=256
So I was happy to see that I had corrected the CC levels overnight...the pool water is still hazy towards the deep end but quite clear at shallow end..
Is it worth dosing again tonight with some more liquid CH to help clear the water up or just keep filtering???? I'm trying really hard to get my water sparkling.
Thank you and apologies for the long winded post.
My quest for answers can hopefully be found by all the knowledgeable ppl here.
I will try to keep this as short as I can but in essence my pool water wasn't nice and clear like it has been last summer. This year has been consistently warm (32-40deg C most days).
With a lot of bather action and not really understanding up until now that CYA affects what my baseline FC should be and how much PH etc can affect other chemical efficiencies I was finding that it wasn't taking much to upset the balance.
So after searching online endlessly for information and reading forum posts I went to my local pool shop a couple of days ago to test my water...this was the results.
FC =3.91
TC=5.00
PH=7.2
TA=84
CYA=51
TDS=4229
CA=290
PO=0.945
So was told to buy starver as phosphate level too high and also buy non chlorine shock...so back home at 9.30am..dumped in 250ml of starver and in the afternoon decided to put in 500g of non CH shock, trying to drop my CC level.( which for some reason made my ORP readings plummet and put my system into overdrive making CH , tested with DPD tab and couldn't get reading-clear).
Kept pump running all night and day and was slightly clearer in morn, CH back up but still needed to be bumped up so I decided to follow the steps on how to properly work out how much chlorine to slam with the readings I had and dose last night with liquid CH.
And these are my reading from another water test this afternoon.
FC=3.99
TC=3.99
PH=7.1
TA=84
CYA=41
TDS=4950
CA=256
PO=256
So I was happy to see that I had corrected the CC levels overnight...the pool water is still hazy towards the deep end but quite clear at shallow end..
Is it worth dosing again tonight with some more liquid CH to help clear the water up or just keep filtering???? I'm trying really hard to get my water sparkling.
Thank you and apologies for the long winded post.