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    New Spa, Foaming, Borates

    Hi, I have a new spa. 300 gallons. I'm sanitizing with bleach, per the instructions in the sticky. About a week and a half in and the water chemistry remains stable. CH is 150, pH is 7.5, TA is 65. The spa is indoors and covered. I haven't concerned myself with CYA under these...
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    My Walmart Great Value Bleach doesn't smell right.

    Has anybody experienced this? I just bought 8 bottles. It does NOT say on the label anything about being scented, yet, it smells wrong. It smells "nice." I just did some cleaning with bleach from the laundry room earlier today and that stuff smelled "right," like bleach. Then I went to add...
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    Procedure for raising pH?

    Just finished SLAMing, and my pH has dropped slightly. Presently it's 7.2. So I need to add a little more than 5 lb of borax. How is this usually done? Pour it in the skimmer basket? Sprinkle on the water surface? Once it's in there, is the pump running sufficient to mix it in? My last TA...
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    New to this system. Please check my numbers.

    Greetings. I've done a lot of reading in the forums here. I wish I would have found this system earlier. For about ten years I've been doing this on my own, focusing mainly on chlorine levels and total alkalinity, and I've had generally good success. That having been said, this way makes so...