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The calculator said it should have gone to 100 (maybe as much as 110), so I may have misread it. I grabbed the water during a break in the storm. I will check it again tomorrow.

Thanks! I think that is what I am going to do for the time being. After adding the baking soda, my TA is now 130 and my PH is 7.6. Major improvement in almost all numbers from 24 hours ago. I am extremely glad I found TFP....

The water goes out of the overflow by one of the skimmers out of the side yard, but there is no way it is going to be enough. Unfortunately, we are under watering restrictions, so I don't know when I could actually do something like that. Other than needing higher amounts of Chlorine, what...

Honestly, I am not sure. I turned the chlorine feeder off entirely in order to keep it from growing any further. Does rain help dilute it (he asks hopefully)?

I retested this morning. FC 9 CC 0.2 PH 7.4 TA 60 CH 350 - 375 (man my eyes are bad....blue is a rough color for me.) CYA 90 I just added baking soda into the skimmer to try and bring up the TA. It will also - hopefully - bring the PH up a little as well.

Right - it had not been quite that long, and the Borax was a little clumpy and had not completely dissolved, so I figured I might get a further small boost from it.

I could agree with delayed rain, but no rain is no bueno. :)

OK, I decided to bite the bullet and TFP the heck out of my pool. :) I added 8.25% Bleach and Borax, per recommendation from the Chlorine/CYA chart and the Pool Calc. FC is now 10.5 CC does not appear to have changed - still right around 0.2. pH is now at 7.2, but it should be rising as the...

CH is between 380 and 400. My measuring is still not perfect, but it was going from purple to blue in that range.

Sorry - I will update my sig. 12k gallon IG plaster pool. Pool finished build a couple weeks ago. I did not check the CH - yet.

So I got my new test kit in the mail today, and it just so happens that the PB did the service today as well. I know that my pH has been high, so I wondered where I would end up. FC 2.2 CC 0.2 pH Low - seemed to be 6.8 (maybe)? I had to add 16 drops of R-0008 to get it to 7.2 and I am not...

Nice - another McKinney-ite! :) Nice big back yard, too.....that was (and is) still the major downfall to my house.

I found something similar last night (seemed like the whole catalog), and it said that you could use that one or the Nature2 Fusion salt system. It seems like I managed to pay (without knowing...rather irritating) for a chunk of a salt system.

I believe they call it Oklahoma chopped stone. Same stuff we have on our back wall. Goes well with flagstone coping.

Stonebrooke Crossing - kind of surrounded by Stonebridge.