Recent content by Btrimble

Hi, I'm in Northern California. I have a gunite pool/spa. We're not closing the pool for the winter because we still use the spa. My readings are FC: 3.5 CC: 0 pH: 7.4 TA: 60 CH: 420 CYA: 30 Temp: 55 degrees It's only November and it's been raining off and on for a couple of weeks. I'm hoping...

My well water: TA is 200 and pH is 7.4. We do not have a softener on it.

We were at about 30. He put tabs in the chlorinator and gave an initial dose of liquid chlorine. I was checking levels every other day and it would be 0. My chlorinator only goes up to 1. He had it on 1. I'm wondering if it's percentage and not a ppm release. He added more CYA and after that, I...

Hi, I'm trying to understand some of the relationships and have a few questions. CYA - It's my understand that CYA helps stabilize chlorine so that the sun doesn't eat too much of it. So does that mean that different pools would need different amounts of CYA in order to do the job. I'm thinking...

Hi, I'm in your area. Kind of. I'm in Grass Valley. I've been considering adding Borates to my pool. It's a new pool so I haven't done enough research yet. If the price is right, I'd be interested. I only need one of the 55# for my pool.

If my other tests are the same as Leslie's, can we trust the one at Leslie's? It's a digital test..... I don't know how often or if they calibrate the machine.... I really don't trust myself with the CYA test. Honestly, I like their CYA number better than the one I came up with.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I was like do I use one eye or two? Is the dot supposed to be gone gone or just a lightly there. This totally helps. Back to the sun, vial at waist level, glance. I'm thinking my CYA isn't as bad as I thought it was. :0) I'm checking again tomorrow.