Recent content by Denney

Thank you for that article. It explains so much!!

Got it! Thank you!

I'm in the processing of lowering TA. After pH drops to 7, I'm aerating to bring up to 8 before adding more muriatic acid. Is there a reason why I shouldn't use 20 Mule Team Borax to raise the pH more quickly? I know this raising/lowering is a slow process but sometimes it takes a few days to...

Okay, got it! Thank you!

I'm not sure if I should bring TA down. Two weeks ago I had high CYA (90) and brought it down to 40. Now it's down to 30 (most likely lower). My pH has been steady. Water is very clear. Weather has been hot and I've been putting in about 10 cups of liquid chlorine daily to get level to 7ppm...

I added liquid chlorine after my last reading. I just did another reading: FC 3.5 CC .5 Total Chlorine 4.0 pH 7.2 Calcium 200 Alk 120 CYA 30 I think I'm okay on the FC now, but my pH keeping hanging at 7.2. Earlier this week I added a box (a little at a time) of 20 Mule Team Borax to bring pH...

These are yesterday's test results: FC .5 CC .5 Total Chlorine 1 Calcium 200 ALK 140 CYA 30 Do you still think I need to SLAM?

Great. Thanks so much. I’ll give that a try. Yes, the water is clear and looks good.

Sorry, I meant 118 on the calcium. I rechecked pool math and the pool size is set correctly. We've been adding the amount of liquid chlorine it has been stating and it hasn't gone up. It doesn't seem like enough to us either but we also don't want to guess and just keep adding.

Opened pool 3 weeks ago and can't get numbers to stabilize. This is our first full year with pool so we're also still learning. Since opening we've only had 3 days when pH was normal, the other days it's been at a minimum or low. Our calcium has been very low (18) but we've been able to raise...