Thanks again for the help! One last question. I am leaving to go out of country for 10 days this Sunday. Should I start the exchange now only to get half of it? Or let it run and my wife turn the water off when it's done? What will be required after the exchange is complete? My wife doesnt know much about the pool or how to keep it up. I'm going to teach her because quite frankly I don't know a lot myself. Should I just wait till I get home to do this? And if you say after the exchange is complete I need to SLAM the pool, I'll need to go get some supplies. Perhaps it's best for me to wait till I return.
Thanks so much! I will do just this! Also, I just got off the phone with our water company. 1000 gallons of water here costs $6.47. This water exchange will cost me about the same as a 25lb bucket of cal-hypo at the pool store ($145). Man I wish I knew this at the beginning of summer. And the pool store would have never told me to do this, nor that my CYA levels were too high. They would have just had me feed the beast with their high priced Cal-Hypo. I will never go back.
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I have fought algea all year. I'd rather do the water exchange now, and put less FC in it to close and open to a clear pool than wait till next year and deal with it. I just found a bunch of liquid Chlorine 10% at lowes today (fresh shipment) and bought 14 jugs @ 128 oz. When I return I'll use that to increase my FC levels before closing.
Watch your water meter. You will find that your fill rate changes with water use in the neighborhood.
Sounds great! I actually called out water company and they said we dont get any discounted rates for filling pools. Ah well. It was $6.47 for 1000 gallons. Not bad at all. I'll post results monday!
Were on septic, we live on 5.6 acres. So we dont pay sewer. Thanks for letting me know though!
Ok! I am complete with my water exchange. Here are my results
Sounds GREAT!! yep, I've got a vinyl liner. I'll keep an eye out on my ph. Question: is there a more accurate test in the T-100 pool test kit besides the test in the blue container? I figured there would be a more accurate test than just matching colors?
No, the test (K-1000) for ph is the standard here. You just want to match the tone, not the exact color (in other words, is your test sample yellow, orange, coral, pink or red? Use whatever number corresponds to the tone).
You can get a digital pH meter, most of them are fine. They require regular calibration and you're not really going to get more accurate data, but it's an option if the upsides are worth the downsides to you. IMO the color matching on this particular test is fairly easy as there's significant difference between the high and low end and the lower precision (accuracy and precision are different things) than a digital meter does not affect my care routine.
