Recent content by Mswinford

Oh boy...I posted that twice...guys I’m so tired, lol!

Ok, I have passed all the criteria to be done with the SLAM! Yay! I thought I better check where I’m at with all the other stuff, and this is what I got.. FC 5.5 CC 0 CYA 50 TA 110 CH 90 PH 7.4 Idk what happened to the TA and CH they were 70 and 120 when I started?? Am I doing these tests...

Ok...I passed all the criteria to be done with the slam! I’m happy about that! Since the chlorine is good now, I thought I better do all the tests in my kit and see where I’m at with the other stuff FC 5.5 CC 0 PH 7.4 TA 110 CH 90 CYA 50 IDK what happened to my TA and CH, they were 70 and 120...

So FC was 4 at 630 this morning, I added 4 more gallons of bleach, restested just now FC 10....I have to get it to 16...gah! More bleach I guess...it should take 32 drops to get the test sample clear for FC of 16, right?

The drain and refill is complete! I just tested water... CYA 40 ! FC 0 PH 7.2 TA 80 So, if I read the pool school chart right, I need to have an FC of 16 to get rid of the little bit of algae I have now. I’ll start adding bleach at 7pm tonight and see where I am in the morning...any advice on...

That way maybe my CYA will be a little lower...still sitting at cya of 80

Ok...went home and checked pool during break, FC is down to 2 :( ...I think I might drain and refill the pool a bit while the pump is supposed to be off during 2-7pm timeframe and restart the slam tonight....

Thanks Texas Splash! Looks like a lot of the algae is gone this morning, but water is pretty cloudy, I can still see the bottom...no FC according to test kit, the water did not turn pink when I added the powder ...I added 4 more gallons and will keep testing, brushing and adding throughout the...

The pool guy took out the salt system because he could t tell if the salt generator was bad or the computer...he said either way it would cost $$$, plus he said our well water was so hard that it was causing the cell to go bad quickly...we did have to replace the pump this year to a pentair...

Oh yes! I forgot he had us add a gallon of algeacide...but that was a few weeks ago and we have drained and replaced water at least twice since then...as to whether or not it had copper, not sure, I just used what I had picked up from Walmart at the end of last season before we closed it. It...

Here is how it looks today

Hello! I’m going to give this method a shot. The pool guy switched us from a SWG to a chlorinator last season and we had no problems. This year, pool was a swamp when we opened, he said put 15lbs shock and then use tabs...poll cleared up for a few days and has had algae ever since. ~...