Recent content by poolguy575

Can anyone guess what might be happening here? Every summer about early August I start to see cloudiness develop. My pool is 24000 gallons. I pump 60 gallons per minute for 12 hours a day. I keep my chlorine (SWG) at 5ppm or higher. My CYA is 50 ppm, pH is 7.5, CH is 110 ppm, Alk is 70 ppm...

Hello, I have a 24000 gallon salt water vinyl liner pool with a chlorine generator. I just added some baking soda to increase my alkalinity and I am asking myself why. My levels are as follows: salt 3000 ppm pH 7.7 alk 50 ppm free chlorine 3.5 ppm cya < 20 (I will be bringing that up...

I am certain we used up the last of the tri-chlor 3 weeks ago. I don't believe he got any more. I will have to verify. He has been keeping a dark blue bubble wrap cover over the pool lately.

I'm trying to help a friend out with his pool. The pool is in a heavily wooded area in southern Oregon. Over the winter and during the spring he really let it go with leaves and needles from the trees settling on the bottom of the pool. And then when the weather got warm it turned really...

I remember 20 years ago in my boiler water treatment days, we had issues on occasion with high alkalinity refresh water. We used a process called split-stream degassification in which part of the water was diverted to a unit that used aeration to lower the alkalinity. Muriatic acid was metered...