Recent content by christyst

Ok, so using a whole jar of ph down and it still bouncing back to 8.2 is not unusual then? That is reassuring. Thanks.

OK, so I live in an area that has had high ph issues in years past, and it appears is starting to again. Maybe it never stopped, and I just wasn't noticing it. Fresh out of the tap, my ph is around 7.5, which it was when I refilled and restarted my pool earlier in the summer. I figured ok, a...

Ok, sounds good. I was assuming the reason for taking the pump off and lowering water level was for when it freezes?

Thank you everyone for the wealth of information on this site yet again! I have a 18 ' above ground Intex metal frame pool. I have had to continue using the filter that came with the pool, although I suspect it is smaller than is really needed. After fighting all last summer with algae, I...

I was just reading through your pool closing info. Hoping in my area to a have another couple weeks of swimming weather here, but trying to think ahead.;). Was reading in the above ground pool section that it is not necessary to completely drain and put away the pool, which is what my Intex...

Ok, user error. I had used wrong reagent. Used 2003 instead of 2013. Retest result is 55.

Should I redo the test, or not worry about it?

Using the black dot in the bottom of the tube test. Filled cya mix bottle to bottom of label with pool water, which was clear. Added reagent to top of label. At this point the mix looked yellowish in the bottle, but I was still able to see the black dot when the tube was full. It did not...

After resolving the issues from my previous thread, http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/83657-New-pool-owner-weird-readings?highlight=weird+readings, my pool has done amazingly well! I ended up adding about 2 lbs of stabilizer, contents read 100% CYA. Resulting CYA level was 50 by TFPK-50...

Thanks. I do remember seeing somewhere on the site that cya can take like a week to register? So I can wait a few days and retest, right? Hopefully it will get up sooner rather than later so it stops eating chlorine. This is the first day I haven't had it back to 0 by the end of the day.

Well, new test kit is here. TF-50. Did CYA test first, filled to bottom of mixing bottle label with pool water, to top with reagent. Mixed, waited well over 30 sec, mixed again. Filled view tube all the way and still could see dot, so assuming 0 cya still. Sock full of CYA is almost gone...

Thank you for all the help! Chemicals added to date: 8.25% bleach ( a lot). Thanks for the recommendation of 1/2 gal. per day. Lately I have been adding in the evening, or 30 min. or so before swimming. Thankfully, with school starting, my teenagers now have a lot less time to swim. Only...

Test kit ordered. Meanwhile, today purchased cya and dry acid (Ph down - sodium sulfamide). Put some CYA in sock and tied to pool. After an hour or so, added 2 gal. bleach. On test strip, FC now 10+ again. Assuming I should wait on adding the PH down until the chlorine/CYA acid issue is...

After the 5th gallon last night, at sundown FC read 10+ and CYA between 50 and 100. Same results this morning. When I got back at 4 both were back to 0. Re-added a bottle of 3%, that is all I have left until I can get to Walmart (45 min. away) as no cyA available closer than that. Walmart...

As you can see in my post, my pool was filled 2 days ago. My teenager girls were swimming in it as it filled. I do not have leaves anywhere near my pool, and it is in full sun a lot of the day. I will be ordering a better test kit asap, but in the meanwhile all the local stores had at this...