Recent content by KS Mike

Thanks for your great post. What does PCS stand for? I have found covers from Pool Cover Specialists and from Pool Cover Solutions and I’m not sure which you were referring to.

Thanks guys. I don’t know what is in the pillow either and I tried to find out because they are ridiculously expensive. I think I’m just going to buy a portable water softener for future fills. To be honest there is a lot about the spa I’m a little hazy on like why CH has to be so low for the...

And I apologize I went back and read my previous post and noticed I said TA was falling with baking soda which I am sure led to confusion. TA was increasing with baking soda, but ph was not moving much. Not sure what I was thinking when I typed that.

Finally making progress. There was no change over night. Ph is still 7.8 with a TA of 30, and chlorine increased from 9 to 10.5 with the cell at its max setting so either the obsessive cleaning, the new cell, or both appears to have fixed that problem. Prior to last night I have never seen an...

yes I have been adding dry acid as the amounts of muriatic acid seem so small. I’ve also added about 1/2 of my dichlor (for a CYA of 30) before switching to bleach. Other than that I’ve added salt to the lower end of the range, used the Hotsprings calcium remover pillow to get to their...

Last check ph is 7.8 and TA is 30. I’m going to stop adding anything and see what it is in the morning.

Thanks for the info, I did not know that about the color change and extra drop. I’m shouting for 7.6. So for an update I woke up this morning to a TA of 10, and ph of 6.8. I thought maybe I had messed up a test so repeated and got the same result. I thought it was great because now the numbers...

That’s what I have always done with the pool, but my TA is 20 (actually started to change color on the first drop so maybe between 10 and 20). I just don’t have experience with jets aerating the water so much. Maybe I just checked it after adding too much too fast. I’ll check it in the morning...

Fill water had a TA of 80, ph of 8.2. I’ve been adding acid over a 24 hr period and finally got down to 7.4 but the TA is now 20 which seems really low (at least based on my pool experience). Maybe I just need to wait a day or two, and let things settle out and see where I end up. I just got...

I’ve had a pool for a few years but recently bought a hot tub. As far as TA goes, if it’s low and I add baking soda, it will raise the ph. If I then add acid to bring it down, that coupled with the aeration of the jets seems like it would just lower the TA and I’ll be stuck in an endless cycle...

That’s why I was asking, the results made no sense and my results have been making sense for 2 years straight now. I’ll pay closer attention to that, thank you.

Here are the test Results since filling. I did not log the initial test of the water since I knew I would be adding things. The chlorine drop was because the water had started to grow a bit of Algae after 3 days of filling.