Recent content by aaronmanderson3

Long update TL;DR: I'm an idiot Have been slamming the pool for a few days (keeping FC at 10, assuming CYA of 30). Pool isn't getting clear at all, and oddly, the filter pressure is not changing at all - staying constant at 18psi. It's been constantly raining for the past week or so, and on...

Should have clarified - the pool is not clear at all (can't even see to the bottom). I think that I'll let it filter for tonight and check the CYA tomorrow.

Ok, for an update: Put in 4lb stabilizer and 52oz of 12.5% bleach yesterday (should have been enough to raise the CYA by a bit less than 30 and FC by around 3). The stabilizer finally dissolved fully this afternoon. Checked the FC/CC, pH, TA this evening: FC - 0 CC - 2 pH - 7.4 TA - 150 (used...

By some stroke of luck, the test kit arrived, numbers are below. Oddly, there seems to be no CYA. Also, I'm assuming that the suggested ranges in the pool math app are defaults. Are these accurate, or should they be changed?

That was the plan, at least until the chemicals are stabilized. I thought I read somewhere (which may have been on TFP or may not have, I don't remember) that tricolor (with also adding stabilizer) is the cheapest way to chlorinate a pool, albeit not necessarily the easiest. Either way...

Hi everyone, I recently bought a house with a pool. Summer's finally here in Minnesota, so it's time to open it up. The pool originally had a Aqua Smarte mineral system, and after extensively reading about them on here, it promptly got replaced with a tablet chlorinator (I also ordered a...