Recent content by ant812

mine had some brown spots from a and s when it was done. turned out to be from some kind of plant or tree debris that the chlorine took care of. other than that, I can not say my plaster is perfect, it does have lighter and darker spots here and there. whenever I see other pools I always...

hardness went up. im not an expert but I attribute this to the scale dissolving and thus turning back into CH...but I could be wrong. these shot were after the pools first winter up opening. the previous year I kept my ch 350 or over. I now keep it lower around 300-320 and towards the middle...

gotcha, I thought that was odd.

False-high reading due to cyanuric acid Cyanuric acid (CYA) titrates as total alkalinity when CYA is greater than 30 ppm. Adjust for this by subtracting 1/3 of your CYA reading from your total alkalinity reading to get the correct alkalinity value. For a more detailed explanation, refer to page...

if your near a leslies they have a squirt tip bottle for free. probably 8 oz I think.

heres a couple pics of what mine looked like...

I had this issue the first 2 years after my pool was built. scrubbing with a wire brush did nothing. a pumice stone would work but doing the whole pool would have taken me forever and went through a lot of stones. I ended up using scale tech and by following the directions closely, it removed...

i wouldn't disagree with that. but the way I see it, phosphates are food for algae. the less food, the better. plus it didn't cost a whole lot to hopefully get rid of them. and I will admit, between my neighbor telling me his story and the high test I had done, I was sold on the idea. i...

I cant say with 100% certainty but...I never paid any mind to phosphates until the other day while I was hanging out with a neighbor. turns out he had a pool at his old house. we were talking and I was telling him my pool was driving me nuts with chlorine consumption and he said "you probably...

I did do a test of ph and ak last night along with chlorine. ph is slightly higher as expected, ak is the same. did not do ch or cya. will do those when this is all done as I will also be getting a phosphate test done at the store in a day or 2 unless my kit shows up before that. will also...

update: here are some pics of solidified phosphates im guessing. even if this does nothing as im expecting, I still like the idea of getting rid of this stuff. in a strange turn of events: yesterday morning fc was at 6.5 and I ran the swg all day to come home and it was at 4.5 tc with 0.5...

water temp has been around 60 all week with minor fluctuations. I have never seen that cya/chlorine chart...good to know as I have always kept the fc around 5....I now see that's too low and will increase, but have never had any issues. I never use pucks and only use shock bags when when either...

im having an issue with chlorine demand upon opening this year. pool was opened last Monday and swg can not keep up with chlorine so I have been manually adding bleach. current levels are: FC 7 PH 7.5 AK 80 CH 310 (will be adding) CYA 70 I did go to the pool store to have a phosphate test...