Recent content by alexb333

Thank you. Got new chemicals today and fresh chlorine yesterday and all is well. I actually think it was the chlorine that was not good. I also think my salt cell is probably not doing its job. It’s 6 years old and I don’t know how long they last but I have a feeling it’s not adding enough...

Interesting. This chlorine was about 2 months old but had been in my hot garage. I bought another 4 gallons yesterday and will store in my lower much cooler basement garage going forward. Is there a way to check to my salt cell? It seems odd that on boost it’s not even adding any chlorine it...

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So I ordered new chemicals and they will be here Wednesday. In the meantime my current chemicals are not expired so I did another test just now after adding a combined 3 gallons of bleach in a 14,000 gallon pool since Saturday, and my FC is still only .5ppm. I’ve been running my swg on boost/24...

Will do!

I ordered replacement chemicals that will be here Wednesday so I’ll do some tests with fresh stuff, but I definitely know the chlorine was low, I couldn’t smell any of it putting my nose in the tubes. Normally I can smell it when it’s that close.

Hi all- I’ve been doing the TFP guidelines for two seasons and it’s been amazing. I have had zero issues since following but something has creeped up on me and I want to verify a couple quick things. I’ve been maintaining my salt water pool at 4-6 ppm FC, 0 CC, 45-50 cya, 250 calcium, 70 TA...

Question for you guys. I have what looks like calcium flakes. Here is my water test. FC- 6 no combined chlorine PH- 7.8 Cya-50ish CH-330 TA-130 I’ve been fighting high TA and adding muriatic acid every day or so. I’ve read this could be flakes from the swg? What else should I be looking...

I thought about this. I’ll test it. I’m on a well and the water runs through a treatment system.

Great, just ordered it and it will be here tomorrow. That will certainly make things easier and probably even more accurate.

Hi everyone- for the first month of the season I’ve been “pool stored” and couldn’t get my pool clean. Bought a 2006c-salt test kit, and a bunch of liquid chlorine and muriatic acid. Right now after chlorine and acid my pool is absolutely crystal clear. Here are the results from my testing...

This is such a helpful amount of information. I will not be putting anything else in the pool. Fingers crossed the haziness can clear on its on. One question, based on my pool size, if I am understanding the bleach calculator, if I put one gallon of 12.5% bleach in, I would raise the FC by about...

Yep, I’ve been checking twice, as soon as it gets 5 psi above normal I backwash it.

I wish I would have found this before I wasted a grand and made my water cloudy. It was perfectly clear except for the million worms at the bottom. I’ll do an OCLT once I get my kit, and let my pump run non stop in an effort to clear my water. Otherwise I’ll drain half way and refill twice...

Perfect, thanks again for the quick article explanation too. I told my wife last week I was so over the pool I was filling it in with dirt but I feel I have some direction here now. In your experience, If the cloudiness is just due to adding all these chemicals, especially the gobs of...