Recent content by marklemcd

Great point Dean, will do that tomorrow for sure. Added 120oz of bleach to the pool and got the FC up to 4. The bad news is CC is now .5 or so, not good news. No visible algae but indicates there is some in the water right?

Thanks Richard. I just added a bunch of bleach and after letting it circulate for a while I'll retest the chlorine to ensure it went up as expected. And I'll take your advice to use the lower amounts of reagent as I test. I do have a pump already, I live just north of San Francisco and we never...

Well I got my Taylor kit today and tested. Not good news. I tested twice just to ensure I was doing it correctly. FC: .4 CC: 0 (yay?) PH: 7.6 TA: 90 CH: 810!!!! CYA: 80 CSI: .27 Temp: 74 degrees So I guess my question here is with a CSI of .27 do I need to do anything with the Calcium? I'm...

Thanks for the reply. I put my temp in as 81 and my CSI is -.33. So I have a bit of work to do there too. I just bought the 2006C, Amazon says delivery Sunday so we'll see then how accurate my readings were :) As for the water, it's crystal clear outside of some yellow lab hair that gets in...

Hi all, I'm Mark. I've had a pool for about 3 years now since we purchased this house. I had little to no knowledge about pools before that. When we moved in I went to Leslie's thinking it was a good move cuz I didn't want to pay someone to care for my pool. I've been following their...