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Hi All... Major pool water drama for the first time in 6 years...but after 95% drain and refill we're back in business. My numbers are all spot on (with the exception of alkalinity) and the pool is crystal clear and smells fresh and clean...hooray!!! The only number we're working on now is...

Did a partial drain and refill trying to manage CYA and what I assume are chloramines (the water smells strongly of chlorine). Here are the numbers as of this morning. FC - 5 CC - 5 PH - 7.8 TA - 0 CH - 50 CYA - 115 Still totally new at this and reading endlessly on here trying to educate...

I'm doing the 25ml test. My kit is brand new. Expiration date of April 2019. We "super shocked" it per the pool store...as explained above. The pool is blue now but smells terrible. Your skin smells like you've dipped it in bleach. So maybe I just keep adding the drops then?

Hello Again, Got my Taylor test kit today. I am already having a problem with the chlorine test. My tube doesn't stay pink with the two level scoops of R-0870. I have to add just a fraction more of another scoop. But then when I add the R-0871 - I can't get it back to colorless again. I've...

Perfect! Thanks for the tip!����

Thanks for the initial feedback. I’ll just have to wait patiently until my kit comes Friday for full results. I’ll post them then. The pool is basically blue now. But was cloudy green for a few days after shock. Then milky blue for a few days. Today it seems so so close to looking normal...

Hi All, A couple of weeks ago we went to the pool store for a part for our pump and thought "Hey...let's take advantage of their free pool water testing". They said our ph and alkalinity were low. Bought a huge bag of the recommended BioGuard alkalinity increaser. Woke up to a green swamp of...