Recent content by PaulWade

Well I think we are getting on track now. Just added a little CYA and bleach. Hopefully tomorrow we have some good chlorine in the pool and the swg will be able to keep it up. Of course now our SWG has been saying low salt some times, so maybe we will have to add some more. Anyway this LAST...

Nope havn't done that. So it sounds like I should pickup some liquid chlorine and cyanuric acid (maybe not 3 gallons though) Also the pool has been uncovered day/night. Wife put the solar cover on today. Which I think will help with the chlorine burn off?

Hey guys, Thanks a lot for all the help so far. We are still riding the struggle bus. My wife dipped a test strip this morning and things were looking good. Total chlorine was at a 2(see image above for our test strip scale) then she took another later in the day and the chlorine was gone...

most recent test result - - - Updated - - - To me it looks like we might have dropped the acid too much?

1 40lb bag. and 1 and about 3/4 50lb bags. so pretty close to 130 pounds. The test strips that came specifically with the SWG list; free chlorine,pH, Total alkalinity, and Calcium hardness. No salt/sodium oddly since it seems like that might be important?

Sadly no, never occurred to us to ask for any documentation. I do have a receipt that shows the free tub of alkalinity plus, and the receipt for 3 gallons of acid from before that. No proof they told us to do that though. the acid is 31%. I am not sure if the salt system is copper or not. I...

Hey all, We recently bought a pool for the kids. 16' 48" deep intex pool. Foolishly I bought a salt water system for it thinking that meant no chemical maintenance required. I had a large pool growing up and I have many memories of tubs full of various chemicals and test kits and a lot of time...