Recent content by surfhawaii

You know, like CYA takes about a week.

I've noticed that three reagents don't have expiration dates on them: R0010,R0011L and R0012. I learned a lesson in not watching the expiration date on the CYA reagent I was using one time and it caused me lots of problems. I just want to make sure that I don't use something that may have...

Ah! Ok, understand, thanks for your help.

Ok, thank you. Maybe I'm just a dunce here and I've looked at the link you gave, watched video, and I use the pool calculator, etc. but I don't see how you got the calculation of FC 27. I haven't been on this site in awhile because haven't been having problems that I couldn't deal with. SWG...

CYA = 70.

New to SWG and have kinda been chasing my tail with up and down chlorine levels (we're in 'winter' here in Hawaii with clouds and rain many days so sun not as intense). I had to shock it some time ago and put 'sanitizer output%' level at max but have been lowering it last few days to get...

Tried again, no difference. But, noticed that the reagents just expired. Going to get new ones and try again. Thx.

When i do the calcium hardness test, the sample turns blue immediately. Don't do this test too often but when i did some 8 months ago, I've had to add calcium. When i plug zero into pool calculator it says add 48lbs of calcium. Really? Is there some other factor that's affecting this? I...

No. But one of the pool guys I was talking to said it would be low. Might be typical of Hawaii. But will test again, might be me not testing correctly. Haven't had a problem in the past.

Filling completely empty pool with new water. Ran tests on tap water going in. Couple questions, I don't want to get into the same mess as I had with high CYA level: 1. Problem with Taylor K-2006 test kit is that when I test for CYA, the gauge on the low side only goes to 30. At 30 I can...

Pool empty and I'm cleaning it. Wondering if once it has been dried by the sun will it come back to life if you add water? Just curious if I miss a spot when brushing.

Not sure where to post this, I'll move it if this isn't right place. Not totally a beginner to this, been following your advice for about 5 years now but need some advice on what to do after pool has been completely drained. Ran into this problem because CYA was over 100 and couldn't get rid...

Well, I might have found one of my problems. I was getting inconsistent test results for CYA which indicated 30-40 one day and zero within a couple weeks. Today I was going to test and realized I had run out of reagent. Bought some new. Tested it and now level is at 100. I was adding CYA...

By auto fill, you mean something that automatically replaces water? If so, no, I don't, but I watch this pretty regularly. I brush after every meal...oh, wait...sorry, he he. I rely on Dolphin cleaner to do this, it climbs the walls and seems to do really good job at cleaning almost...

One other question...lol well, for now anyway...is it ok to use a FC level of 10 on a routine basis? As I mentioned in first post, it seems that my pool struggles to keep algae out and I've found that keeping FC 2 -8 as recommended here, doesn't seem to be enough.