Recent content by Rle015001

Intellichlor IC 40 Pool is still hovered so I cannot rest the calcium hardness. I do have another question in that should I be using something other than test strips or possibly take a water sample to Leslie Pool up the street for testing?

The 2nd winter we had the pool, for some reason the chlorinator settings were off. We had no issues the first winter but the second one (and ever since) we have to toggle the settings on the chlorinator between 1% and 0% because if we leave it at 1% the chlorine will be off the charts. That 2nd...

Here is a pic of my wave blaster cleaning the hot tub. Notice the blue and black particles.

Apologies. Let me correct my statement. Unbalanced chemicals I believe is what I was told. I do remember two winters ago the chemicals got out of whack for 2-3 weeks. Attached is a pic technician provided me.

My 3 1/2 year old Pentair Mastertemp 300 natural gas heat exchanger is leaking and causes a loud noise and then shuts off. Apparently my chlorine got too high and caused the copper pipe to corrode and spit blue/black particles in my spillover hot tub during the winter. 20K gallon total that...

I am so sorry - I just saw this. We absolutely love the reef liner. The water is a beautiful aqua color with a hint of teal to it in the deeper sections. Just a gorgeous water color. I just recently took the picture of our visitor (the turtle) who was swimming in the deep end. The other pic is...

What kind of liquid acid?

Intellichlor system from pentair chlorinates the water. Chlorine set to 0% and at times we may set it to 1% to get the chlorine levels up. we hadn’t check the chemicals for almost a month back in December and that is when it started. Ph is good now. The chemicals were out of whack back then...

I used my wave blaster to clean my in ground hot tub and I have the following sitting on the seat and bottom. Pool is shut off in winter and we keep the hot tub open. I presume it has something to do with unbalanced chemicals eating at the copper tubing in my heater. Can anyone tell me what...