Recent content by loispol

WELL, I just found a wonderful post from Chem Geek from 9-27-2010 for a comparison of test strips vs drop tests! Very detailed & enlightening! Wondering if the Aquachek salt test strip (has a film graph it -3-4 minutes until yellow bar turns color to read and doesn't change after that) is...

Have new Aquachek test strips and the Taylor 2006 kit now. Can't figure out why the Aquachek test strip test for TA is so far off from Taylor TA results? I repeated them and they both tested w. the same results using the same water samples. I've recently added small amt's of borax, baking...

Thanks for the friendly welcome! I have not added any stabilizer bc I became very confused about how to add it and took what I bought back to the store. I want to purchase Natural Chemistry instant (liquid) conditioner now because I know it won't hurt the pool & it seems to be popular and...

Hello, I'm posting for first time after hanging around here for several weeks reading posts, pool school, pool math, etc. I live near the Space Center in FL and the weather has been extremely hot with no rain since I finished setting up my pool on 7-17-16. My pool is in direct sunlight almost...