Have the Pool Store Blues
Hello, we purchased our home a little over a year ago, pool already installed, it had some issues, and we worked to repair the orbiter, and replaced the filters and the pump. I want to move away from using the 3" pucks from Leslie's it seems everything including the shocks have stabilizer in them, so, I have begun using liquid chlorine as of last week. I am completely satisfied with it. However; the pool store is saying that liquid chlorine is bad for my pool and will raise my PH to high. BUT, before I started using the liquid my PH kept bottoming out. Here are my last test results from the pool store. The other reason I want to quit the pucks as I forgot to mention is the water is 1 year old, we did a complete dump and refill last April as the TDS/CYA were through the roof. Now my CYA has climbed, according to the pool store they aren't able to provide me with a "correct" number since their test only goes to 100, they can only estimate, it could be way higher they said...Anyway here are my numbers....I know I need to get a different test kit for myself in order to provide more information, as for now, the pools stores kit it more informational than my own....
FC: 3
CYA: 120
TA: 90
PH: 7.4
TDS: 1000
Phosphates: 200
We are thinking of dumping half the water in order to bring down the CYA. Please Help, I don't even want to talk to them anymore...They are the fourth pool store we have visited in the past year....I'm ready to suck my thumb and rock in a corner........
Hello, we purchased our home a little over a year ago, pool already installed, it had some issues, and we worked to repair the orbiter, and replaced the filters and the pump. I want to move away from using the 3" pucks from Leslie's it seems everything including the shocks have stabilizer in them, so, I have begun using liquid chlorine as of last week. I am completely satisfied with it. However; the pool store is saying that liquid chlorine is bad for my pool and will raise my PH to high. BUT, before I started using the liquid my PH kept bottoming out. Here are my last test results from the pool store. The other reason I want to quit the pucks as I forgot to mention is the water is 1 year old, we did a complete dump and refill last April as the TDS/CYA were through the roof. Now my CYA has climbed, according to the pool store they aren't able to provide me with a "correct" number since their test only goes to 100, they can only estimate, it could be way higher they said...Anyway here are my numbers....I know I need to get a different test kit for myself in order to provide more information, as for now, the pools stores kit it more informational than my own....
FC: 3
CYA: 120
TA: 90
PH: 7.4
TDS: 1000
Phosphates: 200
We are thinking of dumping half the water in order to bring down the CYA. Please Help, I don't even want to talk to them anymore...They are the fourth pool store we have visited in the past year....I'm ready to suck my thumb and rock in a corner........