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Not this time around. I may have to do that.

I am wrapping up an ascorbic acid treatment on the pool at my recently purchased home. The treatment has gone very smoothly & chlorine demand is now close to normal. Though this is my 1st AA treatment on this pool, it is definitely not my 1st adventure with AA but this has been the easiest by...

Thanks. I continued checking last night & added MA to get my PH back into check. As someone who spent the 1st10 years of my career maintaining boiler water for a large coal powerplant (Using the same basic methodology we use here) I knew better than to add that much at once or to trust a PH...

PH was right at 5, I pool math recommended adding 16 lbs of washing soda. I roughly went 1/2 of their recommendation trying to ease up on the target and added 9 lbs over about 45 minutes. TA was at 20. the AA instructions said to start with washing soda to get the PH close then finish leveling...

I followed the ascorbic acid treatment instruction & the ph overshot with 1/2 the recommended chemicals. It clearly states to add washing soda 1st. I asked how or if I should react to the overshoot of ph. I am having trouble finding the answer to that in your response.

I am coming out of my AA treatment and added 1/2 of the amount of washing soda that was recommended by pool math. Checked PH 30 minutes later and the reading is higher than expected. Based on pool math the PH after the addition should have been in the 6.6 to 6.8 range; however, I am getting a...

Thanks, pretty much what I thought but wanted to make sure.

Just bought a new house with a pool and am doing an AA treatment to correct the past owner's negligence. Not my 1st pool & not my 1st AA treatment. My question is, should I run my nautilus CC Pool cleaner during the treatment. Will this harm the Nautilus in any way?

I am using Chrome. I was able to back into the articles through the pool math links.

I sold my house with a pool a few years back & have just signed a contract on a new home with a pool. It has been about 4 years without a pool & I want to refresh my knowledge. How do I access the Pool School articles. I click on the pool school menu on the left of the page but it does not take...

Actually I have. The top ring separates from the bottom, which is the basket. I place the sock over the basket and snap the top back on. Works great. I also use polyfil in my basket in an attempt to help filter metals. The polyfil does not affect the performance at all. This is not the wonder...

I have to agree. I would advise anyone wanting to do an AA treatment to think long and hard about the problems involved, the expense and the length of the process. My water chemistry has been very unstable since an AA treatment in April. I would only advise doing the treatment at the end of the...

I have one and it seems to work well. I do need to figure out how to use a skimmer sock with it though.

Agree on the syringes. Extremely cheap & simple.

I use a 20ml syringe. Accurate graduations right on the syringe. I think I paid about $6 for a pack of 10 on amazon

It is best to chlorinate daily. I would test daily for a week or so until you understand what your daily chlorine demand will be. After that weekly test would be fine. For example, During the summer heat I know that I will lose 2 ppm FC daily and dose daily to bring it back up. I test on...

Re: Should I perform an ascorbic acid treatment? Thanks, most of the stains are in 4-6 ft of water so I will have to figure out a way to spot-treat those. Just so I know that I understand, there is no need to drop the FC to zero for the spot treatments, correct?

Some stains are beginning to re-appear. I am keeping FC as low as possible, PH between 7 & 7.2 & Jack's Pink between 12 & 18 What would you recommend to treat the returning stains?

Sad thing is that he is very technical and loves data but is choosing to ignore this data.

Not as long as his water is clear[emoji30] He will have to have a disaster to convince him to change.

If I thought he would use it I would gift him a TF100 but .....

I failed to bring my kit along. I will definitely bring it next time we visit. Going to do some research on the pool store regimen he is currently using to help him better understand what he is doing to his pool.

Thanks, I will play with that in pool math to see how I can make that work.

Visiting a friend with a pool this weekend. Chlorinates with pucks. (Working on getting him over to TFP ;)) Has a waterfall water feature. Tests with strips weekly. PH consistently drops below 6.8 and his TA is 180. He doses with PH up to 7.5 weekly. I am not familiar with falling PH. He is...

It was definitely frustrating. All of the information leads you to believe it is a 2-3 day process. I discovered from feedback here after the fact, that extreme cloudiness after the treatment is normal. I would advise, based on my experience, that this is a 3-4 week process. The instructions...

I ran into the same cloudy water issue after an AA treatment. It was not algae & took a couple of weeks to clear up. It cleared up quickly after I installed a new filter cartridge and used Jack's filter fiber stuff.

Been a while since I have updated this post. THe water remains extremely clear.... Guests (who own pools) have raved about how clear the water is and how the water does not affect their hair. :kim: I do have some staining re-appearing but is is light and the spots are rather small.... will most...

I performed an Ascorbic Acid treatment about a month ago & the water is now very clear and though all of the staining initially lifted, I do have a few light spots re-appearing. Truthfully, I expected this because the initial staining was very bad. My plaster was a dark tan giving me an emerald...

I used powder with no real issues. Just had to be careful and pour it in close to the surface