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Great thanks!

Can you point me to a link with more info on that so I get get a better understanding of that balance? I thought I was just aiming to keep FC above 3 and below 5 according to the Intex pool manual. Thanks!

Sorry about not replying, somehow I missed the last few posts. Thanks so very much for all the ear advice. The alcohol and vinegar mix works great! I think it was the high chlorine causing all the skin, eye and ear irritation so I had to stop using the pool after only a few days. I am very happy...

Very helpful. Thank you. I have had it 2 other times in my life and all 3 times it has been in the right ear. It is true that I am very sensitive to chlorine so that was interesting to read.

Thanks so much Vickery and Kellyfair. My water has warmed up with this heat and the water has been in the 80's this week so it is now plenty warm. I have been testing daily with the powder, strips and the blue box kit and all are getting the same results. That is the first time I have been...

But we have not been able to get accurate CYA test results with the kit using the control.

Thanks so much for sharing your info Vickery. We have been so discouraged trying to get this pool going. We were having a terrible time getting the chlorine to drop and all signs seemed to point to the fact that there was too much CYA in the water but the TF-100 kit was reading lower than I was...

Thanks for the offer but I really don't think that I will be using the chlorine part of the test kit that much. I bought it for the CYA test but we are having trouble getting accurate results with the kit. The folks on the forum gave me some new advice about temp of water when we test so we are...

No, I didn't call. Just didn't have the energy. Health has been challenging throughout this so energy is very low. The lids on the liquids were loose too but only the powder spilled.

The water temp is 66 today and there has been cloud cover and some rain everyday. The SWG is unplugged from the power. Stabilizer was a brand new bottle from the pool store. We are running both chlorine tests exactly as the directions state. We have both read instructions and both checked the...

Hello again, It's been 4 days since we last added chlorine, salt and 104 oz of CYA and the chlorine is not budging from 10.5 so we still have the SWG off. CYA test in the TF-100 is still not giving accurate results after testing it on a few pairs of eyes and against the control a couple of...

Ah yes, well remember we did have to cancel Don's 71st birthday pool-party when we drained it so that was what all the worry and heartbreak of the whole thing was/is. We have survived a brutal heatwave over the last week and now a long rainy cold front is hovering over us so no swimming for us...

The pool water today is crystal clear. Still have the SWG off will test chlorine after I put the chickens in the coop.

I am running out the door to PT so will have to read your post more carefully when I get back but we added CYA twice as we were instructed to in this thread. I am pasting some info from my log below and I think it has the correct info in it but I am late and gotta run so don't have time to go...

Thanks for checking in I was just writing this post as you posted yours. Back to the CYA issue. When I did the test using the control "pool water" from the TF-100 kit the control result was between 30 and 40, not 50 like the paperwork said the control should be. When I read our pool both...

Ok I will wait to hear from you. Until I hear back I have the SWG turned off. I would like to get the chlorine down so we can swim in-between the storms LOL

Ok I got the test kit and other than the fact that the lid came loose on the R-087 powder and it spilled all over everything during shipping everything else was intact. So now I have a new problem I think. I was repeatedly advised here in the forum to keep chlorine down to about 3 to keep the...

I know, I am really hoping it will come today because I cant figure out what my chlorine or CYA level is. The drops say FC is between 2 and 3 still and that doesn't seem possible after all the chlorine I added. The sticks say it is between 5 and 10. Thanks for the paper towel tip. I am actually...

GOT RUST?! 10 min of pre-filtering with paper towels layered over the skimmer. Certainly explains why those days of draining and scrubbing with bleach didn't help! Thanks to whoever it was that first brought up the subject of pre-filtering!!!

I entered 2 because that is what the test says! Don't I enter the number the test comes up with????? I have rerun it a bunch of times and it always comes out the same??? I am baffled. Do you still want me to add all that extra bleach tonight or are the numbers I came up with right? We added the...

Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong in the Pool math calculator then. Here is a photo of the results I got for FC back when someone here told me to keep FC at 3 for now so that the iron would not get angry.

Oh Dear! I never got a notification on this post and we added salt today as soon as we got the pump going. I hope that will be OK? The advice about the pressure is such good advice! I had not thought of that but it make so much sense! Thank you.

Ok, wow. Thanks for all the great info. Now please tell me if I did the calculation properly in the Pool Match calculator. According to the numbers I put into it, it said I should be adding 6 oz and 4 tsp of bleach. Is that correct? It doesn't seem like much but that is the number it gave me...

Yesterday (7/5) pool was 1/2 full and we added: 1/2 cup chlorine around noon and then 11 oz in evening 42 oz CYA 30 pounds of salt Today 7/6 when pool was full and pump was running we added 90 lbs of salt to bring it up to 120 lbs The tests I ran this afternoon showed the following numbers...

Ok, thanks. That was missing from the directions I was given. Also you apparently can't have a comma in the number ex 4,545. So those things were making it not work every time I tried over the last couple of days. Also it is set to Tricolor by default is that what I want it on or do I need to...

So the pool is about 2" from being full on this second go round and the sand filter is on but the SWG is not. I am assuming we need to add the balance of required salt at this point and wait the recommended 24 hours before turning on the SWG? Here are my latest test results. The TF -100 test...

I have been trying to get the pool math calculator working for me using the exact directions below. It will not output a quantity when I move mouse over "Add". It is set to Tricolor by default is that what I want it on? Does it work on a MAC?