Recent content by snipeorod

Welcome to TFP, I was in your situation when I first started and this forum really helped me out. I thought I had a CYA of 100 but after diluting the sample I found it was much much higher. In order to do this right you need to find your true CYA. Once I did that the rest was easy. I now have a...

Re: Skimmer/Cleaner/Drain Suction P Thanks Bama

I am trying to learn more about my system as well as determine the proper valve positioning to provide proper suction for skimmer/cleaner/main drain. I have attached pictures of my system. As you can see it's a very simple system. On the suction side I have a 2-way valve with one side labeled...

Welcome to the forum. These guys are great and very helpful. I just started on this forum myself with the same issues you seem to have. My CYA was 100 or so I thought. It turned out to be much higher and it took 5 partial drains/refills to bring CYA down to 45. Don't be surprised if it takes...

Will do guys. Thanks a bunch.

CYA-45 FC-4.5 CC-0 TA-110 CH-130 pH-7.5 On the higher end for CYA but looks like I am there...just need to take care of CH and maintain FC and pH. Thanks again everyone.

Thanks Jeetyet. I appreciate your help throughout this process. Everyone on this forum has been great. I hope it doesn't take too much more to balance this thing after my last drain.

Slowly but surely. One more small drain should do it. CYA-60 FC-6 CC-0 CH-140 TA-110 pH-7.5

Thanks for your comments. I think I will just suck it up and complete the process on Friday. At what point would you consider a water table to be high? Mine is about 18-25ft. It would be nice if I could drain 3ft or more all at one time.

I wish I could drain it all at once. But for now multiple drain/refills will have to do. Just finished another fill and CYA tested at 120. Even though it's coming down is it really worth getting CYA down now and pay for water I will not use until next summer?

It's looking like my CYA was a lot higher than the 200 my first test gave me. But with all that trichlor puck use maybe that's not unusual. I just completed my third drain and refilling as I type. With today's drain I have drained approximately 70% of the pool capacity. Seems like a lot for such...

Drained approximately 1.25ft. Refilled with softener bypassed. Test results are as follows: FC-20 CC-1 CYA-180 (I would have thought I would have seen a bigger drop but maybe it truly was way over 200) TA-160 CH-290 pH-7.2