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Awesome! Glad you got it figured out.

This is very true. Your pH will rise as long as the laws of Physics and Chemistry hold. Allowing your pH to drift up a bit will not appreciably affect your chlorine's ability to sanitize. Other water parameters may need to change if you are concerned with the CSI or LSI.

If you are getting nothing but green and losing no chlorine overnight, I certainly would suspect copper reacting with the chlorine. You seem to realize that a chelating agent won't remove the copper and that will depend on another step. If you are committed to this course of action SC-1000 is...

That was a typo. Relax...

Be sure you understand this in its entirety before you start. You are going to need a lot of 4 lb boxes of Borax and even more muriatic acid. If you put in the Borax without having the MA at hand, your pH will fly off of the chart! If you need to increase CH, Amazon, not the pool store, is...

From TFP, "Borates help prevent algae. Borates won't completely prevent algae from growing, but they do slow down algae growth and make it easier to kill off when you do get algae." Anything that "slow down algae growth and make it easier to kill off," by definition, decreases chlorine demand...

Awesome progress! Watch your filter pressures, too, those dead little plants gotta go somewhere...

If you choose to add borates, you can drop your chlorine use (probably) by about a 1/3. The water does feel softer and has a beautiful sheen. Borates also buffer against pH rise (as opposed to CYA and total alkalinity buffering against pH dropping). Borates are an algaestat NOT an algaecide...

From the pool tests you post, I believe you need to add chlorine as your CC seems to suggest a nascent algae bloom is imminent. Your pool is also not balanced. So, I suggest that you do a bit of reading, here, on recommended chlorine levels for your CYA level (which is a bit too low, too) and...

For those that asked: My citations would be found (among other places) in this forum and were posted by Waterbear, Chemgeek, Ben Powell, Robert Lowry, and others. This will get you started. I measure my chlorine loss by plotting the runtime of my chlorine injector pump necessary to keep...

OK, folks, this is going nowhere. You do not have any empirical evidence, you only have anecdotal evidence and opinion. If there are no citations of scientific observation all you have is "the word on the street."

I have lived in hot climates my entire life, so I am certainly familiar with 98°F and 95% humidity. My pool water has, on occasion, flirted with triple digits. Currently, I am losing about 1.21 ppm of chlorine per day and that will probably go up some in July-August as the water temperature...

I'm not advocating anything. I am, however, stating the scientific fact that, in an average residential pool, if the water chemistry is managed properly, there is no need for more than 4 ppm of chlorine, barring an event of exceptional bather load or an organic "accident". I think people get...

Yeah, I'm torn on this one. First, everybody has given you excellent advice, but there is one gotcha to consider. I'd look back through all of the paperwork with a fine-toothed comb concerning warranty. Based on what you find in the fine print and the legalese and the conversations you are...

As mentioned above, let's get the figures from ONE test process and your best choice is the Taylor kit. The numbers posted make us lean toward certain fixes, but those numbers clearly didn't come from a Taylor kit.