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I tried to read what I wrote a few times and your responses. What makes you think I have an issue? I "had" an issue and explained once I removed the phosphates the issue didn't return. I can't start a thread on asking for help when I don't have an issue. If I do have an issue I'm just unware...

Could the same thing be said about borates? I'm new here, so I'm not sure if people tested or added borates 50 years ago. One thing for me is that it's really inexpensive if it's just once a year. I had a reading of around 500 in a 16k pool and I treated 1,000ppm for a 20k pool and it cost me...

I would slam the pool and a few weeks later it would turn slightly green/cloudy. It was barely noticeable, but each day I noticed it getting worse and worse and chlorine levels dropping. After about 3 weeks. Another slam. Following what was in the outlined in the pool school book. My...

It's been raining so much here lately. FC - 5 CC - 0 pH - 7.6 TA - 100 CH - 350 CYA - 50 I have a pebble tech surface. I'm not sure if it's all the raining/draining, but my stabilizer went from 70 to 50 in 2 days. Yeah, I've been playing with it the numbers. Mostly because this winter I...

Everybody in my area seems to think SWG don't do well when phosphate are over 500. Even installers who aren't selling any products seem to think this as well in my area. I actually thought I had an issue with my SWG recently which was under warranty and the original installer told me he...

I just haven't seen anything but test strips for certain tests like borates. I thought even this site recommended certain strips for certain tests like borates. Maybe they aren't reliable, but there's nothing else?

I'm not sure about the liquid kits. But every strip test like phosphates and the other ones I've tried all have an experation date on bottom of the bottle. All seem to be around 1.5-2 years by the time I bought it.

Thanks for the reply YippeeSkippy What do you mean by water features? I do have a fountain running if that's what you mean. My TA is currently 100PPM. I actually used baking soda to raise it recently when it was at 71ppm. I've been testing myself and when I pick up a bag of salt from...

About two years ago we moved into a house with a pool. We ended up installing a SWG and testing out pool chemistry ourselves. A lot of SWG pool owners we spoke with indicated that their PH is constantly increasing that they have to add muradic acid every week or so to lower their PH...