Recent content by jonyok

Today Clorine is 13.5, pH 6.8, TA 60 (started to turn purplish red at 50 but fully red at 60). I have to leave today for a week, so how many bottles of chlorine should I put in Today before I go? Chlorine pucks or not? What Chlorine level should I aim for? Add any baking soda to adjust TA? I...

So far so good. The chlorine level was 17 and the pH was 6.8 when I got back from evacuating. I have been checking daily and adding liquid chlorine as needed to get to level up to 20. But I will be away for about a week soon and will need to put some extra in I guess to keep the level up enough...

I live in Lake Charles and we have an extended period of time (1-4weeks possibly) that we will be without power in the wake of Hurricane Laura. After getting the debris (mostly a lot of leaves) out of my pool, what should be my approach? My last test results are below. I added 6 gallons of 10%...

Thanks everyone for all of your very helpful replies! Pool School and the Pool Math app are great too. Now my alkalinity has dropped to 35 and Pool Math is recommending adding 17 lbs of baking soda. Any suggestions on how to add the baking soda? I’ve seen recommendations to turn the pump off...

Poolife MPT Extra Tablets (Trichloro) with stabilizer and I shock with Poolife TurboShock (Hypochlorite).

I understood that Alkalinity needs to be in the 80-120 range in order to help bufffer the pH properly and was not aware that TA buffers the SPEED of pH rise, rather than the AMOUNT of pH rise.

I have a 25,000 gallon in ground gunnite pool which is four months old and live in Louisiana. My pH tends to run high, which my local pool builder told me is typical of a new plaster pool, and I have been adding muriatic acid (per his recommendation) about every other week when the pH has risen...