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Ugh, thought I had our water perfectly balanced. The last few days though, the pH is reading high. On my K2006 kit, it's in the pinkish color, so 7.6-8.00. Our TA is high again though since we had to add water due to evap. It's been super hot here and our pool is blasted by the sun all day till...

That's kinda what I hinted at to her. She was pretty frazzled, so I didn't want to completely freak her out.

This is only our second year of having our pool and we are using only liquid chlorine. We did add some stabilizer at the beginning of the season, but have added nothing but some muriatic acid and liquid chlorine since. When I tested our water last night we were at FC- 8.5 CYA 50 pH 7.4 TA 90...

So we have a hayward pump, but we want to get a pool timer. The plan is to just plug the time into the outlet that we had installed just for the pool. There are 4 outlets and all are GCFI. Am I able to plug in a timer to that? Also, if we plug the timer, then the plug for the pump gets...

Hi all, We currently have a Hayward Pump, it's a 1515 power flow matrix. I can grab the exact model number if need be. My question is, do they make longer cords? Ours is currently the one that came with it and it's short. It does plug in fine to the outlet, but could definitely use more length...

Well our pool survived with just a few extra leaves in the bottom. Got those cleaned out and the pump running on a generator for now. A few hours off and on. Keeping chlorine around 10 right now. pH is holding steady at 7.6. Probably put half gallon of liquid chlorine in later this morning...

Definitely! Thank you so much!!!!

Thank you!!! Luckily we didn't get the super high winds but we will be without power for awhile. Thank goodness we stocked up on liquid chlorine the other day!

So we just had what was basically a hurricane in Iowa. Luckily we did not get the 100+ mph winds the towns a few miles from us did but we did lose power. No eta of when power will be restored. My concern is our pool. How do i keep algae from growing with no pump running? We don’t have a...

thank you! i think i am just so scared of screwing up and ruining things that i am trying to micro manage everything.

I knew it had to be higher because we added stabilizer last week and the monday following our pool install. i'm gonna leave the CYA alone and not add anything. Just keep checking levels each day and keep FC and pH in check.

I thought it needed to be 7.4-7.8, so I was worried.

So when I test the CYA on my kit, it comes back higher at 50. That's when I stop seeing the little black dot at the bottom of the cylinder. If that makes sense.

We had to add muriatic acid again since our TA level was way way high yet again after having to add water over the weekend. We had water loss due to evap and lots and lots of swimming and splashing. Kids were making huge waves in the pool and we had a lot of splash out. I also like to keep our...

our fill water is super high, over 300

Our CH has been staying steady at 250

Ok, please don't yell at me or judge, this is all new. I worked really hard to bring our TA level down to 120 from over 270ppm. Our goal was to bring it down enough to feel comfortable adding ProTeam Supreme Plus and saltWe did discuss ordering boric acid from Duda Diesel, which is what we...

And since we already have the Taylor 2006c chlorine test kit, do we want the whole new salt kit from taylor? or just strips for both salt, and ones for borates?

So if we add both, we still would want to bring our TA level down to about 40-80ppm, correct? Then add salt, then add borates? Or vice versa?

Would we also then need a new test kit if we add salt? So we know when we're at 2000 ppm? We have the Taylor k2006c kit

So I read that, but which would be better for our situation then? Since have a higher TA level and the pH seems to fluctuate, I thinking borates is the way to go. But our main reason for wanting to use borates (or now salt) is improving the feel of the water

So we can add pool salt even though we don't have a saltwater pool right now? We're still using liquid chlorine at this point.

We have talked about an SWG but with it being almost the end of swimming season, we are waiting on the SWG till possibly next year. But the better half isn't completely sold on the SWG yet. He's worried about it voiding our pool warranty (which is not gonna happen- already checked) and worried...

We are hoping to add borates to help the water feel softer and better for the kiddos and us. And to keep the pH steady instead of bouncing all over. That's a great idea on the hose. We don't have to add water a lot but it definitely drives the TA when we do.

No, we used the 31%, which is why I am shocked it's taken this long to lower it. I want to add boric acid soon, but can't until we get our TA lower.

So I tested our tap water since we use our outside hose to fill our pool when it needs topped off. The TA is 325! So no wonder we are having a heck of a time lowering our TA. We've had to add water a couple times due to overnight evap and splash out. Not a lot, maybe 1/2 inch or so total.

We did our first water sample on 07/20 and our TA was over 273ppm. It's come down quite a bit, but seems the rate of change is slowing. On 7/28 we tested at home and at the pool store we switched too (love them) our results were: FC- 5.6 pH 7.8 TA 170 CYA 60 So we were told to add one...

that's definitely my plan. i have to get more acid tonight after work. i am hoping just a couple more additions and we can be done.

We have kiddos swimming everyday and they do tend to splash alot but not an insane amount, so we may be ok. So borates are ok to add then? I am happy where the pH is at, just the TA is still high but everything else looks good.

I can definitely order boric acid. Our main reason for wanting to add it is because the water feels hard. Similar to hotel shower water, so your skin is dry when we get out. Our hardness is at 275. I thought borax and boric acid would help make the water feel softer as well as keeping the TA...