Recent content by crossnelson

Thank you. I will do that

My Alkalinity has always been high and I try to run my fountains as much as possible to aerate. Is there another way to reduce it?

Thank you. Are there other steps I can take yet this season other than a 50% refill? I have had no issues like this over the past 8 years and am wondering what occurred to make this happen. As I posted earlier, the water is basically the original fill as I do not add much water due to my auto...

Still not sure what to do? I am guessing drain off 5% of the water and refill The pool gets closed on September 20 so maybe best to wait until next year and deal with it then? Any suggestions will help. Thanks

Back after a week of travel; I did have my wife open the pool everyday and run the fountains. FCL - 8.5 PH - 7.7 AKY - 425 CYA - 150 - step 8 test CH - 427 pool temp 80 Thanks

I am out of R-0013 so will need to continue tomorrow afternoon after work. Thank you again

Chicago, Il. I have not tested my fill water. I do not need to add allot of water because of the cover. It is covered when we are not using it. It is the original water that was put in the pool 8-9 years ago. I did the dilute method for CYA. I guessed 120 as it was 1/4" below the 100 mark.

Rain stopped - new test with HK-2006 FCL - 8 PH - 7.7 - 8.0 AKY - 475 CVA - 120 CH - 600 Worse than before - ugh!

I used my HK-2006 up until this year when I was given the ColorQ as a gift. Should I abandon the ColorQ all together?

I retested everything with my ColorQ Pro 7; FCL - 7.47 PH - 7.7 AKY - "HI" CVA - 108 CH - 423 Salt - 3600 per Taylor testor - K-1766 Plugged in everything to Pool Math calculator and not really sure what to do? Look a mess to me, any advice would be much appreciated. My pool has an auto...

Thank you. I will get back to the chemistry of things and dial it in. Have had such an easy time of it in the past that I got lazy. Thanks also for the note on cell cleaning. My previous one lasted for 8 years.

I am experiencing an abundance of white scale in my Aquabot pool cleaner bag. The pool looks fine and my levels are right where they have been all summer and the previous summers. I had a new SWG installed this spring so maybe that is it. I have cleaned it three times and it does not seem to...

After many bad ACE cells over the past 4 years Watkins is providing me with an ozonator for my Grande. This was my first spa so i do not know anything about caring for a non salt spa. My pool is salt and i use the BBB sytem with it with no problems. Any input in how to manage my spa would be...

Thanks for all the help.

Thanks Chem Geek. I am going to try one more cell. Will any certain maintenence routine extend the life?