Recent content by DARaynor

Re: New to BBB, read but do not toally 'get' Pool School. 1s Very clean today, not quite "sparkling" but getting there! Will test later today.

Re: New to BBB, read but do not toally 'get' Pool School. 1s Thanks for the CYA test video. I think that I probably stopped pouring a little early so will check again in a few days. Second answer: Yes, starting the shock process, not adding a shock product. Either liquid chlorine or bleach...

Re: New to BBB, read but do not toally 'get' Pool School. 1s Great stuff folks, will shock this evening and monitor tomorrow! Thanks!

New TF-100 results (wish I had known about discount for membership, would have done that...): FC - 2.5 + CC - .5 = TC - 3 PH - ~7.1 TA - 80 CH - 420 CYA - 70 I think, this is a hard one to be sure... Borates from new test strip somewhere between 15 and 25, hard to tell exact shade. Water is...

My TF-100 today results: FC - 2.5 + CC - .5 = TC - 3 PH - 7.1 TA - 80 CH - 420 CYA - 70 I think, this is a hard one to be sure... Water is perhaps 85% clear (been clearing every day since I started attempting BBB). Filter cleaned Sunday, showing good. So I am thinking add a little chlorine...

Re: Starting Borax after shocking the @#$%^ out of pool - 2 Hey JP, Thanks for the response. The PH is just the low side of OK -- I have been testing daily as I added first chlorine liquid, then when got a good deal at Target on pure bleach (6%) using that now. Water was very cloudy (could not...

I've been walking around my pool with Bleach (other times Borax...) and adding maybe 1/6 of container in front of each jet. So it takes me maybe 2 minutes to empty a container then rinse. Some at each jet waiting just a bit between. Does this sound like a good way to continue adding chemicals...

Hello, Been adding a box of Borax a day for five days, sort of hedging bets until my Borax test strips came in... A little over 15 (maybe 18) right now. 24.5k gallon pool (so says builder but my calculations last week on clorine loss says about 27k...) So... 1. How much more Borax should I...