Recent content by niilo

@sande005 - thanks for that, it didn't occur to me that temperature could impact the readings - I'm in Michigan and the water is definitely cold 🥶 I'll try to get some new ratings after letting it raise to room temp.

Got it, thanks for all the helpful replies! And if someone can confirm my understanding - the CYA essentially just makes our FC less effective, right? so the main downside to high CYA is that we'll likely be needing to add more chlorine / bleach to the pool to stay in the ideal FC levels, which...

The previous owners did use pucks regularly, that's probably where it all came from. I don't have a SWG. Brand new so I will get photos and info in my signature ASAP.

oh you're right - must not have been a full 3 feet because it wasn't totally empty at the shallow end. I ran my hose for ~10 hours to get it to the ideal level and googling it seems a household hose is an average of 10gpm, so around 5400 gallons.

Thanks for the video and help with pool math! I was missing that plus button to log results, it makes much more sense now :D

Ok, I'm back with some more comprehensive readings: FC: 8ppm CC: 1 pH: 7.2 CYA: 120 Calcium: 75ppm TA: 70 Worried why my CYA is so high after just cycling out so much of the water

Thank you, good to know about the yellow test! I did the FAS-DPD test, sorry I forgot to post the complete readings there- that test showed 8ppm FC and and a CC level of 1. I will give that a try for the CYA test, thanks again!

Hello! This has been a wonderful resource as I'm trying to learn about pool maintenance - just bought a house with an in ground chlorine vinyl pool and this is our first season. It was just opened by a company, they dumped 1 or 2 bottles of shock in and i filled up the missing water a good 3...