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Back from our trip after being away for a full 9 days. Pool looks good! (Except for a few leaves in the bottom) We got a big rain storm on day 6 and that had me worried with 2”+ of rain water and debris from the wind, but it seems to have ended up ok. Chlorine was down to 4.5 and only a tiny...

I use this water timer to add water to my pool daily during the summer to compensate for evaporation... Raindrip R675CT Analog 3-Dial Water Timer, - https://a.co/d/a6pWMba It works great for me….

Yea seems like in the long run there are lots of pros to the SWCG. I guess that’s my next research opportunity…

Got it. Floater it is. The pool is not getting super dirty right now, so I think I’m going to play it safe with the vacuum.

Well yes, you’re right. My chlorine loss will be the same. But the pucks will be adding chlorine. So I was saying maybe my net loss per day would drop to 2ppm. I’ve only used the trichlor pucks once before for a much shorter time so I haven’t been able to track how much chlorine they add to the...

I have a trip coming up now where we will be gone from the pool for 9 days. 2 questions for everyone… 1. I’m thinking my plan will be 1 trichlor puck in a skimmer, 2 pucks in a float. I’m hoping that will slow my chlorine loss from ~4ppm per day to maybe 2ppm per day. So I can go up to slam...

I’m sure that’s true. I guess I’m weird. I never went to the pool store for advice. I’m definitely glad I didn’t. I went straight to the pool chemical service because it was easy for me to see that their price of $600 a year for all chemicals was cheaper than me buying it myself. Several friends...

I’m 4 weeks in since I officially took over my pool on July 1. That’s the day I started the water drain and replacement and 5 days after the pool companies last visit. Current levels (noon)… FC - 10.0 CC - 0.0 PH - 7.5 TA - 70 CH - 400 CYA - 70 Temp. - 89° CSI - -0.11 I’ve dropped my pool pump...

Thanks. I have been doing some more reading. It seemed to be saying that lowering my TA wasn’t a big thing to worry about so I haven’t been aggressive in working on it. I used up my liquid muriatic acid and I had some dry acid so I had been using that to keep the PH in line and ordered more...

I’ll definitely be looking in to it. 👍🏼

Thanks to all the the helpful folks on this forum. Sure makes it easier to get things figured out. At this point I’m mostly updating the results because when I was searching you come across lots of threads that start out but you never know how things finished up.…. It is still nice to hear...

Thanks all. I’m definitely new to this, and I appreciate you taking time to help me figure it all out. My target FC was derived from the CYA chart saying 8-10 was the target and minimum was 5. I didn’t know how much it would be losing per day, but I can see how there could be a day that would...

I don’t mind trying 11 ppm, but I’m not sure it’s necessary. I’ve been adding to get to 10 ppm each night, pool is acting really well with that, crystal clear, no sign of algae. The lowest it’s dropped in a day is to 5.5, but most days seem to be ending at 6.5 before I add chlorine at night…

I did a retest of CYA in the sun today. So what is the correct positioning? If the sun is at my back but the tube is in the shade of my body I get a reading of 70. If the tube is positioned out of the shade in the light of the sun the reading is 60.

I‘ve been bringing the chlorine up to 10 ppm each night… so these were my numbers before I added nightly chemicals. My FC number has been dropping between 3.5 - 4.5ppm in 24 hrs…