Recent content by ScoopEE

Good to hear, again sincere thanks for the direction. Starting to get my bearings and will stay on it. We have yet to add salt for the salt chlorinator, that's coming in about 2 weeks. I'm in the San Fernando Valley, and from what I hear, we lose almost an inch a week due to evaporation!

Hey there! Thanks again for all the guidance so far. Got the leak sorted out last week pretty quickly, which was a big relief, and dove back into understanding the chemistry. I feel I have a handle on the chlorine, though I cannot distinguish between the yellow gradients on the Cl/pH test, so I...

Hmm, seems like CYA was at best 70, but more likely 80, so that sounds like it's still too high. Also, there's a big gap between 50 and 70 on the viewing tube, right? Is there something else I could be doing that's a critical misstep in gauging this? I will try again tomorrow, the same method...

So @mknauss or anyone, update on today's daily test after adding liquid chlorine and baking soda. I hope this is a better story. Unsurprisingly, tests for Chlorine are showing up after adding 2 gallons, and my FC appears to be 9 as of today. My pH still doesn't appear to be in range, looking...

That CYA level could be my user error, so I will re-test tomorrow. I've added the chemicals as well, so hopefully on the way to greener pastures. Thanks again all for the advice, I'm sure I'll be back! ;)

Pool was filled on July 22nd (last Friday), and yup, totally get that salt needs to wait. Thanks Marty for the looking out. I'm planning to run out and pick up some supplies to rectify, and not wait. Using Pool Math, it seems like I should be dumping about 9lbs of baking soda for the TA to get...

Thanks all. I thought I did the FAS-DPD test initially (the Chlorine Only tube with the R-0870)? That one also came up completely clear twice, so I didn't continue with the steps of adding R-0871, etc. I thought we were following the National Plasterer's Council procedure but suspect we're a...

That's what I thought. I thought there was only a 1 or 2 day grace period after the filling, sigh. I wanted to have a pool service in place while I get up to speed with learning, but this pool service I'm using I'm not confident in currently. I may be misreading this, but it appears there is...

Hi all, I recently filled my pool after a replastering and believe I'm screwing up everything since then. The pool company supposedly had a 3-day start-up (which I was naive about and seemingly spent a fortune on someone showing up twice over those three days for like 20 mins a pop) and have...

How many people have made that joke? As a long-time swimmer/first-time pool owner, I'm excited that the pool at my new home is finally converted over to salt, being replastered and filled. Yeehah, home stretch, right? I'm ordering my TFTKit so I can become the Pool Man, but right now, I'm but...

Thanks, Mike - just as a quick question on the kits. As I'll have a saltwater pool, I need at least the TF-100 kit for the ph levels, as well as the Salt Test kit (after the 30 days when we start to use it), is that correct? I sometimes have trouble with color shades, but can recruit some eyes...

Hi all - I'm Eric and about to (finally) have a new pool. We recently purchased a home that had a pool, which needed plumbing work, new equipment, etc., and thankfully in the home stretch (fingers crossed!) where we'll re-plaster and begin filling the pool this week! We opted to convert to a...