Recent content by pizaul

Tested this morning. Proud to report we have gone from 160 CYA to 80! Although a bit high still for non salt, so I’ll do one more exchange to get that down a bit more. I’d def recommend this method to anyone trying to get their CYA down. It’s set and forget once you equalize the flows. And my...

Exchange complete! Whew. If I measured flows right, I should have exchanged ~15k gallons or so. The water has always looked good, but now it looks next level good. I suppose we call this TFP good, lol. Before heading to work I started the pump up, added some LC, and let the robot do its thing...

I have an aiper seagull pro, i'll do that! We're supposed to get some rain tomorrow so will need to suck up all the worms that enjoy falling to their death to bottom of the pool anyway lol

Haha, i'm on my third cup so VERY awake lol. Glad to have confirmation! For fun I ended up going full YOLO and just doing it this way last night, so 4,320 gallons should have been exchanged by now. Water looks extra brilliant this morning! I'll keep it going for the rest of the day to exchange...

For the second part wouldn't it be 68-3.03? Making it 70.4 - 64.97 = 5.43? Which puts it nearly at 5 meaning there will be lots of mixing? Pool temp is 71 this morning so just to have the numbers current: (71- 600/165) - (68 - 500/165) = (71 - 3.6) - (68 - 3.03) = 67.4 - 64.97 = 2.43 So with...

Got the TDS for my pool water, it’s 600. But without knowing fill water guess that doesn’t help much. Maybe I’ll take a bottle of fill water to pool store and see it’s makeup, but from what I read EPA sets the suggested maximum for tap water to not exceed 500 TDS to be safe for drinking. So it...

I have thought about it, but I don’t want to risk those possibilities if I don’t have to lol, which is why the exchange technique triggered my interest and is my preference. I am limited to filling with one garden hose pumping out 6-7GPM. I did also think to just do a few partial drains to...

Hmm do you aim for the difference to be 20F or more? Unfortunately my heater doesn’t work and I don’t have a solar cover. I’d have to wait deeper into the height of summer here in MD for pool temp to creep into low 80s. Yeah I may just have to go with it. In the end it’s helping more than...

I am doing a water exchange to lower CYA as I’ve moved away from trichlor tabs to liquid chlorine a few weeks ago, with the goal to go salt next year. I don’t have any cloudy water or algae as I must’ve gotten lucky with tabs as FC generally was always around 10, just want to get my CYA to the...

I ordered a Polaris Freedom from Leslie’s and shipping got delayed, so I hopped on Amazon and ordered the Seagull Pro which arrived next day. Seagull Pro cleans my pool as good if not better than the Polaris 5050 it replaced, seems it cleans it with more logic than the random pathing the 5050...

It’s in there. Bit hard to see from these photos.

Yep it’s concrete, surely feels like it when I touched it lol. It’s a 3’-11’ pool, they don’t make fiberglass that deep from what I understand.

Thank you! Bel Air :cool: