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No. No water softener.

@mknauss Do you think it’s ok to leave the CH where it is and just let it rise over the summer?

@mknauss Thanks so much for all the advice.

OK. Back to Leslie's to return my dry acid. May I ask why Muriatic acid is better in our climate?

No drain water exchange was done. The GPM on my pump was 4.8. I ran it for around 49 hrs, so took out around 14K gallons. Test results today: FC - 0.5 pH - 7.8 TA - 150 CH - 275 CYA - <30 I started by adding 35oz of dry cyanuric acid (sock in skimmer). In pool math, I said the CYA was...

I repeated the test a few times. I diluted the pool water with distilled water at a ratio of 1:3, got a result just over 100, and multiplied that by 4. The pool has been maintained using Tri Chlor tabs for 4 years (since we bought the house). That being said, for the first 2 years we used a...

I ran the hose for 20 minutes before temping today, and it still came out the same. 89. I'm a little surprised, but, this IS Phoenix after all.

Yeah. I actually let the hose run for roughly 5 minutes, then filled a 5 gallon bucket and temped that. I'll try it again to double check. Thanks for the info. If these results are correct, it looks like I'll get a result far in the negative. So, I'll drain from the deep end and fill from...

@Texas Splash @JoyfulNoise @Newdude I was wondering if I could ask you guys a few more questions. I am planning on doing a no drain water exchange, hopefully early next week. I got a submersible pump. I know where I am going to drain the water (clean out). I tested both my pool water and...

@JoyfulNoise Yeah. I don't think I want to take those risks. I'm new to this. Also, I'd be going into the clean out in my front yard, so I don't think I could drain that fast. But if I do a "no drain water exchange", the heat doesn't matter right, because the water level is maintained? I...

Thanks. If it wasn’t getting so hot here, I would probably think about draining and then filling, instead of a “no drain” method. But by the time I am ready to do it, it’ll probably be too Dang hot.

Texas Splash. I am looking at either hiring a company to do an R/O treatment, or doing a no drain exchange. I have a few questions I was hoping you folks at TFP could help me with: - The R/O companies I have contacted are asking me for the TDS. The instructions for a no drain exchange on TFP...

Yeah, we don't have a water softener. I guess I'm prioritizing the CYA level at this point. I just want to get that down. I know the Ca will come back up.

I’m looking into R/O. If anyone has a company in the Phoenix/Mesa AZ area they could recommend, that would be great.

Hey everyone. I am new to the TFP forums. I posted about a week ago with my initial problem, which I mainly saw as low pH and high Alkalinity (High Alkalinity, Low pH. Aeration.). Other users replied, telling me that I probably had bigger problems, and that the first step was to get a...