Recent content by Tom J

Went away for the weekend came back to fc of 10 and cc of .5 ppm. Ph is back up to 8 and this time the cya of the k2006 and the strips coincided at 60. I do not know what is going on with the cya but I will live with it. I put some 48 more oz of muriatic acid in and 96 oz of 10% chlorine. The...

Well now I am perplexed. The k-2006 cya test is showing worse than before I drained and refilled I took it this AM and again tonight. I can't see the black dot after about 10 dropsof the 7ml of pool water the filling with R -013 to the 14 line and shaking it up, now I am out of that reagent:( ...

I had to go out of town Sunday and Monday but I finally got around to watering my trees yesterday and today. I finished filling it up tonight and my CYA is less than 50 by my Clorox test strips. it was too dark out to use the K2006 kit and I am out of R-0871 reagent so I can't take my fc. The...

Yes Lisa its a typo. It should have said 41. I have very fat fingers.;)

Thanks Trev, The pool now tests at7.2 with my old Taylor DPD test. I measured the FC before I added chlorine and it was 18.5 and CC was still at .5ppm which is strange since we had a rainstorm and received a half inch of rain between tests. it was at 16 this am I added 2 gallons of 8.25...

Thanks Now that I have a decent test kit I am going to use the slam Process on this site. I think I have used over a box of Clorox pool shock(Costco sized box) and 40 gallons of bleach so far this summer of course 30 gallons were dollar store. This is the 3rd summer on this water I always...

Passed the OCL test last night I think. I ended up with more fc in the morning than I had last night. I had 15.5 last night and 16 this morning. Here are my numbers this AM: fc=16 cc=.5ppm ch= 275 (change d to blue just like the directions said CYA =95 TA =200 I didn't bother with PH but I...

Lisa I watched the video on the free chlorine level but that is it. I know I will use the smaller measure from now on. Unless I need total accuracy. I work as an electronics engineer so I know about accuracy but you don't always need to be down to the nth degree.

The ch level I am not sure of. It turned red then after about 30 drops it went clear it but after 60 drops it never did go blue. I may have to try it gain using the 10 ml measure.

I just received my K-2006 test . I think I used up most of the reagents just trying to get readings but here they are: FC=72X.2 =14.4 cc=.2ppm ch=60x10=600 cya=95 ta=250 ph=purple and 20 drops of R005 did not even start to change the color. I added 32oz of Muratic acid last night and 32 ounces...

Yes I wanted to reduce my CYA and CH. I diluted the pool water 1:1 with the well water and still had over 10 FC so I diluted to one part pool water and 2 parts well water and came up with 8 so I figure I am at about 24 -27 FC. If this is correct I will add another half gallon of bleach tonight...

Hello to all. I have been reading the forum for a few days and have an issue with white/blue cloudy water. I do not have a FAS /DPD chlorine tester so I am not sure where my free chlorine is at other than over 10% as that is the max my DPD free chlorine will test to. I have an 18' X 48" INTEX...