Recent content by hobbzilla

Okay, so I may be off a bit and I guess time will tell. I have been buying the 10% stuff from WMT. Not sure I will have the appetite for daily FC testing and daily adding of bleach… guess that is why most folks end up with a SWG?

Howdy! So trying to do a little math and budgeting and wanted someone to double check my calculations. I currently have a CYA of 60. In order to keep FC at 5, and from what I’ve read an outdoor pool exposed to the sun can burn off 3ppm a day, am I truly going to be adding a half a gallon of...

AUG 20th FC: 11.5 | CC: 1 | CYA: 120 | PH: 7.4 | TA: 110 | CH: 550. AUG 23rd (after chemicals, dilution & rain) FC: 8.5 | CC: 0 | CYA: 75 | PH: 7.6 | TA: 90 | CH: 425 Pool is crystal clear. I brushed the walls and bottom and still have a few poofs of cloudy material. I suspect I will be doing...

So I did an incremental drain of only about a foot (~4,500 Gal.) & filled from hose as well as a few inches from the rain. Post drain results: FC: 5.5 | CC: nil | CYA: ~75 | PH: 7.4 | TA: didn't test | CH: 460 After 3 tests for CYA, I have completely used an entire bottle of the Taylor CYA...

Done. Looks to be around 130 as the results diluted were around 65

So, I would like to avoid draining that much water at one time until I need to resurface the pool. I figured that this drain & fill process could be incremental over a period of time instead of a reverse SLAM. After reading the flocculant article, it sounds like that step may be unnecessary, I...

I'll save a bit of the backstory & commentary and get right down to it. Over the past week I've hit the pool pretty hard w/ 3lbs of HTH Cal Hypo shock, 4 HTH Cl Tabs, 2 Gal. 10% NaOCl & a bag of Clorox pH down, and a bottle of Clorox algaecide, twice/daily brushing & I completely cleaned the...

Howdy! I am the proud owner of a pool of an unknown size! The former pool service said they were treating it as a 10,000 gallon pool, but that seemed low to me. I took some measurements and google mapped birds-eye and wanted someone to double check my math and some of my guessing as I am...