Recent content by dlwilliam

question about liquid chlorine, will I get some residual strength if I finally it to 4 or 5, or does it just come and go? I feel like I'm adding a lot of chlorine at 4 gallons a week. My FC by the week has been all over the place: .6/.4/2.2/2.8/.6/5.6/3.4/1.0

Updating my tests results since May 26, when I started trying to eradicate the very small amount of bromine I added to my chlorine pool in a misguided attempt to go bromine. I have a gunite pool in full sun heated to 88 degrees. 5/26 8/6 Fc .6 1.0 Cc 1.0...

Ok thanks. I’m monitoring loss of liquid chlorine between pours. I have a heated pool in full sun. Hoping that will help drive off the small amount of bromine I introduced in May. I found one article (linked from TFP) which indicates bromine may dissipate in full sun pools with high levels of...

Updating my test numbers after a week of only liquid chlorine (not to SLAM levels.) CL was low when I did the second test today: 5/26 6/3 Fc .6 .4 Cc 1.0 .4 Ph 7.2 7.6 Ta 70 60 Ch 160 150 Cya 80 70 CYA is coming down. (No more tablets or powdered shock.) Still...

Regarding my high CYA level, would CYA survive the winter, or did I build it up since I opened the pool? All I've added since the cover came off (besides a few ounces of dissolved bromine tablets) is 4 pounds of non-chlorine oxidizing shock, then after the switch back to chlorine, 2 pounds of...

Do these numbers confirm I screwed up the chemistry with my one month bromine trial? And in regard to the high CYA, is that due to the bromine use or residual from 3 years of using stabilized 3" pucks -- and dissolving 4 of them in the last week or so? I am now using liquid chlorine, adding...

Here are the results from my new K2006 kit. I added 2 gallons of liquid chlorine 3 days ago. Two Chlorine pucks are still dissolving in my feeder and I have one puck in both skimmers. Fc .6 Cc 1.0 Ph 7.2 Ta 70 Ch 160 Cya 80 Thanks for your help.

I just ordered a Taylor K-2006C test kit. I have some non-chlorine oxidizing powder shock. Can I use it? Thanks for the advice. Won't raise the calcium hardness level of your water, neutral pH ingredients. Chlorine-free pool shock ideal for weekly shock treatments Contains 38% Potassium...

I added one pouch of Cal Hypo powered shock (dissolved in water) two days in a row, and am running 3" chlorine pucks in the chlorinator and two skimmers (only until I get the level up). Today on day 3, I have 1 ppm chloring showing up in a "red and yellow drops" test kit. My pool is actually...

After 3 years of using chlorine in a 13,000 gal gunite pool, my wife became sensitive to chlorine. When I opened the pool 4 weeks ago, I loaded 1" In The Swim bromine tablets into my chlorinator/feeder and shocked the pool with non-chlorine shock. I ran the heater at 80 degrees to dissolve the...