Recent content by Holbrookfaith

I'm struggling with this as well. I entered all my test results into pool math thinking my alk was way too low at 60 and when I submitted my test results it said it was fine... I was like hm weird. The test kit says 100-120

Has anyone with the tf-100 kit notice on the testing card it says under alk it should be 60-90 for salt water pools and above ground vinyl chlorine pools it should be 100-120, but in the pool math app is has me aiming for 60-90? I don't have my pool profile info entered as salt either, I checked.

The calcium hardness is way too low, get the salt and add in to get you around 250+ it should immediately clear up.

Does anyone have this vacuum? If so, how do you pull it out if the water without the backflow screen opening and letting out debris? I assume at this point I have to pull the heavy vacuum out full of water level and not let the vaccum drain but it's easier said than done ... I'm finding it's not...

Because ever since the dang test kit came I've become mildly obsessed with perfecting all numbers 😅 I did adjust the chlorine last night. I've been pretty good about it this far, since the storms and cold weather came through, I assumed the tab floater would be able to manage it since it hasn't...

I have just recently put my tab floater back in the pool now that my stabalizer is in check, it was pretty high for a while, so I removed it and uses only 10% bleach while I let the stabalizer levels drop. Now that the stabilizer is under control I've thrown the floater back in to help keep...

Perfect. My husband actually has a stir plate / kit he uses for his brewing. I'll start "borrowing that" 😅

So I haven't had any issues using my TF100 test kit I even got the CYA test down quickly. But, when it comes to the ALK test I need help. So when you are counting the R-009 ALK drops do you stop at the first drop that drops in and turns pink / red? Or are you recording the amount of drops that...

Finally got where I needed to be after 3 SLAMs rinsing filter twice a day and adding calcium chloride (I think) based off strips, We finally have clear water!!! I am waiting for my TF-100 test to come for more accurate readings, strips are registering slightly high ALK. ANYWAYS... I ordered a...

We had a ton of rain that dropped out calcium levels since

I'm currently unable to get the suggested test kit but I have compared the strips to litehouse pool tests and they seem to check our accordingly. We have 13,000 gallon 24ft pool and a A jacuzzi cfr50 pump using a unison cart filter. We have two new filters we have been rinsing and swapping...

So I need to raise chlorine levels from 2-4, calcium 100-300 and alk 70-100 all else is in range. I got a giant bag of baking soda, calcium chloride, and multiple liquid bleach 10% I assume I start with the liquid bleach since sanitize first, but I thought I needed to get calcium levels right...