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I think the pH should be fine between the additional baking soda and my needing to add about 3k gallons of fill with a pH that runs between 8.5 and 9.

Thanks everyone for the the added clarification. It made no difference to what was happening in the pool, but it did help me understand what and how things were happening, and why. Things are much improved, but still not completely out of the woods. I initially added just under 400oz of...

I don't have anything on hand at the moment, but will be shopping over lunch. I'm rereading the chemical section of pool school, and there's this: "PH can be raised in three ways: borax, soda ash, and aeration. Borax is usually the best choice. Borax raises the PH and also raises the TA level...

Thank you all. I do understand my pool needs attention, and I'm here because my lurking here last season kept me out of trouble and helped me through my first season of maintaining a pool. I actually did pretty well up until yesterday :) About the baking soda/carbonic acid thing I mentioned...

Okay, the moment has come. Here are the results: FC: 5 CC: 0 Ph: 3.5 (HM digital PH-80) TA: 0 (turned red immediately) CYA: 50 (this didn't drop as it appears, the 70 number listed in my first test is a typo) Salt: 3200 Borates: Color match was closer to 80 than 50, so we'll call it 70 Temp...

I didn’t test right away because I don’t have the chemicals on hand to correct it. Testing in the morning still allows me to have the info when the stores open. Did you mean baking soda or soda ash? I’ve never used either of these, but comparing the two, wouldn’t baking soda have a fairly...

I just realized I did something incredibly stupid and I need help. My pool is 33k gallon vinyl w/ SWG and sand filter. Test results before the mistake were: FC: 6 CC: 0 Ph: 7.4 TA: 70 CYA: 70 Salt: 3200 Borates: 15 I used Pool Math with the intention of calculating requirements for bringing...

What more do I have to do than create and save my sig for it to show up? It took me a half hour to collect all that data! :) eta: oh, nevermind...there it is.

Hi, I'm Steve and I'm a newish pool owner. Bought in late 2014 but paid for pool service through the end of September last year. I've nursed it along since then, basically adding salt here and there and more or less going primarily off the SWG readings and test strips. As the time approached...