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I've been doing the BBB method using liquid chlorine only since March 2016. I live in Arizona, water is precious, so my hope was to not have to change the pool water for several years at least. When I first started this method, I realized the limiting factor was going to be salt - according to...

I understand that borates are a pH buffer - so that, with borates in the pool, it takes significantly more acid to reduce the pH by the same amount. My question: what about TA change, with and without borate? Example: suppose I have no borates in the pool, and it takes 1 Unit of MA to reduce the...

Hoping this is not too dumb a question. I am considering adding borates to my pool. I've studied all the stickies, etc. and am confident I understand the process. I do have one question I have not seen addressed: it seems that borates affect the surface tension of the water (I've seen posts...