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I'm out of some reagents from last year or they expired, so I tested pH and TA myself and used pool store reading for Chlorine (unsurprisingly zero-ish) and calcium when I was picking up the salt.

Hi all, I just had my liner replaced so all the water was delivered fresh yesterday. I checked readings prior to starting with the chems and got this: pH: 7.2 Free Chlorine: 0.1 TA: 250 (lotta limestone near here) Calcium: 318 CYA: 4 I have a 22k gal SWG pool with a vinyl liner. I hit it...

I threw out the bottle I used to add CYA, but it should have increased it by around 30 I think. I'LL have to buy some acid, was using some pH reducer the previous owner left around. Doesn't seem to be doing the trick

Hey all, Thanks for all the advice so far. This is what I am currently testing at: pH 8.0 (it keeps staying about here, whats the best way to get it lower, I know SWG pools tend to go up over time) FC 8.2 CC 0 TA 70 CYA 40 (Dumped a whole lot in previously and it doesn't seem to have moved...

Having people over this afternoon so I cleaned the pool with the manual vaccum and skimmed it. I noticed some strange darkness on the skimmer when I'd take it out to dump bugs. I dragged it once the length to get a better idea and it came away with a thick dark line. What the heck is it? I...

Water is crystal clear, no sign of algae. Shouldn't I use the salt generator to increase chlorine? Or is bleach better?

Hi, I posted a week or so ago about getting a new house with a pool and my test kit finally arrived, I got the K-2006 as suggested. Finally got around to testing and here are the results: pH: 7.7/7.8 FC: 3.6 ppm TC: 3.8 ppm (CC was close to zero I thought) TA: 80 ppm CH: 30 ppm CYA: <40 ppm...

Ok, here is a follow up question you can help me with: its a SWG pool and the water level is currently ABOVE the skimmer due to heavy recent rains. Can I just attach a hose to the filter which has a release and drain x gallons into and around the yard?

Hey all, I bought a house with a pool which has been a dream since I was a kid. When we looked at the house a couple times the pool was sparkling and awesome. Moved in a week ago and while the water looked good, there were a lot of debris, leaves, sand, etc in the pool. I spent the last 5 days...