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    How do I lower TA without lowering PH?

    And then, how do we keep the PH from drifting up over and over?
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    How do I lower TA without lowering PH?

    I have been using the Pool Math app, and it says the "total recommended alkalinity is 60-80. Also, because we keep having to lower the PH (pool math says between 7.2 and 7.8) because at one point it was 8.2. And in years past, the PH will drift regularly. Are you saying I don't need to concern...
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    How do I lower TA without lowering PH?

    We have had issues in past years of rising PH and needing to use something fairly regularly to keep it low enough to swim in. This year my PH has been good 7.2-7.5 range . . . but the Total Alkalinity was 140. I used Muriatic acid to lower the TA-- which brought it down to 110. But now my...
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    Oops! We used some rust remover salt when opening our pool . . . .

    It's "Do it Best" Brand, green bag. The bag only says 99.8% pure salt, and mentions rust staining prevention. There is no other information on the bag about what the other 0.2% content is. This is the description from the website (which also does not have any other ingredients listed)...
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    Oops! We used some rust remover salt when opening our pool . . . .

    Thanks! I had read on an older thread not to ever use the rust remover salt. Relieved to know there is nothing extra to worry about! :)
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    Oops! We used some rust remover salt when opening our pool . . . .

    So, we put 9 bags of salt in our pool to open-- and the salt levels are now correct. But my husband used 2 bags of the rust remover salt, as we already had those on hand for another purpose. Is there anything we need to do to take into account the 2 bags with the rust remover component-- other...
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    Pool Entry for Intex Ultra Frame

    Thanks, I'll look into that! I am also hoping someone can tell me if the above ones would work because they are a great deal on Craigslist right now.
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    Pool Entry for Intex Ultra Frame

    Specifically the entry system I'm looking at is:
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    Pool Entry for Intex Ultra Frame

    I am having a hard time figuring out what would work for our Intex ultra frame 16 x 32 . . . . does anyone have any experience with any of the complete entry systems that have gates? Do all of the entry systems rest on a pool rail? Or are there any that can just go up and over the rail...