Recent content by amorak

I am using pool-specific bleach from the big box store - trade bleach at about 10%.

Hi all, I get a bit of bubbling foam - not bad, just a few handfuls at the centre of my tub with the jets on. When I turn the jets off there is what looks like soap film on the water. Could this be from swim suits with residual soap, or is this the dreaded biofilm? I have been following the...

Can someone confirm that for 210 US gallons to reduce TA from 200 ppm to 50 ppm I would need 250 g of dry acid? That's what I am calculating as my total needed acid additions which means 2-3 days of acid and aeration to get TA down!! Wow that seems like a lot of dry acid - hoping someone can...

So I added 80g of dry acid over a few hours with the jets going to keep the ph from going much below 7.0. TA in the new water is down to about 120 after that. Tomorrow I will continue to aerate and add dry acid as I try and get the TA down to ~50 from a starting point of 200+ I didn't add...

Water was turning green when I got home so I emptied he tub and wiped it down. Refilled with my city water and put in 10ppm of dichlor as it filled. Will work on reducing TA and Ph tonight and then perhaps add a bit more chlorine ? Does adding the full 30 ppm of Dichlor out once have a problem...

LOL - I realized that as I wrote it... Thanks. Forgot the whole 'how a water softener works'... i guess I could throw some resin in my tub ;)

Our water here is very, very hard (city water, very hard). We have a water softener for the house, but the exterior taps used to fill the inflatable 200GAL tub are unsoftened (so the grass doesn't die, etc). Can I add some of the large pieces of softer salt from the softerner into the pool...

Hi all I have a Canadian Spas Grand Rapid small (200GAL) inflatable hot tub. My initial strip test shows high PH (higher than 8.0, which is as high as the strips go... I know, I know) and a 200+ TA count. I've used the tub twice since I filled it 4 days ago, and it's now getting cloudy, so I...