Recent content by badwater

Thanks for confirming what I thought. I have discontinued the nature 2 and the chlorine feeder.

Sorry to take so long to update the progress. It took five days of slamming for the water to clear, all numbers are great and pool is sparkling clear! Thanks to everyone for the great advice, the pool store will never see me again!

Just finished with the 50% drain and refill. I dont have my k2006 yet but here are the numbers from the HTH: C-(OTO) 4 ph-7.3 TA-110 CH- 160, sample only turned yellow CYA-60 Heres a question I'm not sure I want the answer to: should I drain more to get the CYA down even more? I drain about...

So, am I slamming when the pool is full?

Pool is 54" deep, so drain 27" and refill? Just so I am clear with what I am doing, am I SLAMing once the pool is full?

Ok, I just did the diluted test and got a number of 52ish, so it seems like a real number of 104 is pretty close. I just ordered a taylor k2006, it should be here Monday. In the meantime, can I begin to drain and refill? Or am I jumping the gun and should wait for the test kit and get more...

What Scott.MI said...

I found out by reading on this site that CYA being to high can cause algae growth. I'd never heard of cya before this. My pool is cloudy green for the third time in the last two months, I've been "pool stored" beyond belief and need help. I just bought a test kit at Walmart that will do a cya...