Recent content by Nathanstl

I needed to shock a little and was at Lowe’s and they were out of normal bleach so I picked this up. It wasn’t until after I added 3 gallons to my pool that I realized there was extra ingredients here. From the label… Contains Sodium Hypochlorite, Sodium Hydroxide, Surfactants and Silicate...

Good to know. I wasn’t aware of that.

SWG. Chlorine levels have been at 5.5. Cya at 20 is very hard to get enough ground water to do a proper test in. It’s not sitting water just soft ground and mud. I was able to push out enough to test for chlorine. I’m doing another bucket test today with the water to the top of the bucket and...

CYA is 20.

Thanks. Another red flag is my neighbor has water pooling on our property line as well about 20’ away from my pool. I tested the water for chlorine and it didn’t have any, also he had the same problem last year and they found a leak in his irrigation system, but they always suspected the pool...

I lost 1.75” in my pool water level in 60 hours. I had a bucket filled up and it lost only 1” in the same time. I’m worried about a leak and this seems to confirm it. A couple things that might be throwing test off is the pool is heated, the water level was 3” below the top of the bucket, and it...

Opened the pool this year and it’s taking extra long to clear up. I’ve been using liquid chlorinator for a week and keeping levels very high. I don’t have a full test kit anymore so I just have strips and a basic OTO kit. The pool has so much chlorine in it it has been almost brown on the oto...

Just set it up. PH was off the charts. Took quite a bit of muriatic acid to bring it down. Then I over compensated and it went really low. Added baking soda to increase. Now PH is 7.2, but TA is 250+. I don’t want to get into a never ending cycle here, but also don’t want to scale my new...

1. See picture. This isn't mine, but identical. 2. I have no idea what the GPM requirements are besides the 1.5HP single speed pump runs it great.

Please see attached picture. I'm not 100% on what the pipe 3rd from the left is used for. I just got a Pentair INtelliflo VSF and I was thinking about completely eliminating both of my single speed pumps with this one if possible. The water feature was running on a 1.5HP and the filter on a 1HP...