- Sep 10, 2020
- 233
- Pool Size
- 10500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
I'll start with background. Three weeks ago, my pool was filled after Pebblesheen was applied. My PB turned the pool over to me after dumping about 7 bags of salt in the pool two weeks ago and I was told I am responsible for balancing. The PB will be back next week to turn on the chlorinator which likely will be senseless since the water will be too cold. Also, the PB provided ranges for the chemicals which do not match the recommendations from PebbleTech.
I hired a pool service company to brush the pool daily and clean the skimmer. I test my water with my T100 and my pool servicing company tests my water too. The pool is consistently not balanced.
Today, the pool servicing company ran a sample of water through their Spintouch system and I also tested this morning. Please see below for results.
I don't know how to balance this pool and the pool servicing company won't treat the water since I am within the 28 days and my chemicals are conflicting. I've contacted my PB and know they will tell me it's ok if my CYA is high. It won't hurt the finish and it will dilute in time with rain and adding fresh water due to evaporation (this is the advice I've received before) We had awful storms last week and the CYA is still high. I also know from reading many posts in the forum that others have had conflicting chemicals and were able to treat based on guidance from forum members.
Also, I did treat with Muriatic Acid and I am VERY sensitive to it - had a hard time breathing. This is one reason I wanted help from the pool servicing company. One more note - there is lovely floater with chlorine pucks floating around the pool.
Any advice on next steps for this newbie? I'll go to Pool Math but thought I could get direction and guidance. Thank you so much.
Spin touch System Results
Chlorine 10
TA 80
pH 8.0+
Salt 3400 (chlorinator was not started and don't know why they added salt so soon)
CYA 100+
Calcium Hardness 209
Results from my testing T100
Water temperature 55 degrees
FC 11 (CC 0.5)
TA 90
pH 8.0
CYA 100
Calcium Hardness 550 (I know this must be a newbie mistake)
I hired a pool service company to brush the pool daily and clean the skimmer. I test my water with my T100 and my pool servicing company tests my water too. The pool is consistently not balanced.
Today, the pool servicing company ran a sample of water through their Spintouch system and I also tested this morning. Please see below for results.
I don't know how to balance this pool and the pool servicing company won't treat the water since I am within the 28 days and my chemicals are conflicting. I've contacted my PB and know they will tell me it's ok if my CYA is high. It won't hurt the finish and it will dilute in time with rain and adding fresh water due to evaporation (this is the advice I've received before) We had awful storms last week and the CYA is still high. I also know from reading many posts in the forum that others have had conflicting chemicals and were able to treat based on guidance from forum members.
Also, I did treat with Muriatic Acid and I am VERY sensitive to it - had a hard time breathing. This is one reason I wanted help from the pool servicing company. One more note - there is lovely floater with chlorine pucks floating around the pool.
Any advice on next steps for this newbie? I'll go to Pool Math but thought I could get direction and guidance. Thank you so much.
Spin touch System Results
Chlorine 10
TA 80
pH 8.0+
Salt 3400 (chlorinator was not started and don't know why they added salt so soon)
CYA 100+
Calcium Hardness 209
Results from my testing T100
Water temperature 55 degrees
FC 11 (CC 0.5)
TA 90
pH 8.0
CYA 100
Calcium Hardness 550 (I know this must be a newbie mistake)