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Thanks! Did you have to use any colorant in your grout when you re-grouted? My grout is somewhat dark (grayish brown) and the ez-patch grout is white. Just wondering if you had any experience coloring the grout and what type of colorant you used.

Hello, we had a few tiles pop off of the spillway of our pool. Having done some research it sounds like I may need ez-patch 1 (to build up the bed, where the tile will be placed), ez-patch 3 (thin set) and ez-patch 4 (grout). We recently had a freeze and I’m thinking (hoping) that is the...

I'm pretty confident that the pH in my water is good now. I bought one of those meters that Marty recommended from Amazon. So far I love it because it sure beats trying to interpret the colors for the pH test. It came back with a result of 7.7. So I think I have my acidity issue resolved. It...

Thanks for checking it out anyway Newdude! Will take all the help I can get, lol.

Thanks Marty. When you say the pH testing will not be valid, do you mean it will not be valid at all due to the high chlorine? I've seen in the Taylor FAQ that high chlorine can make the solution turn purple or blue, but that hasn't happened to me. I haven't seen anywhere that it can...

I did a diluted test. I followed these steps- 1. I filled the collection tube (#9191) with 7 ml of tap water and 7 ml of pool water, mixed, then removed 7 ml of the diluted mixture. 2. I added 7 ml of R-0013 to the diluted mixture and mixed that solution for 30 seconds. 3. I went out and, with...

Update - today these are my values: pH - sitting at 7.6 (after adding quite a bit of Borax). FC - 20 ppm (I have not added chlorine, but no one's been swimming in it so that's the only reason I can see why it's still so high). CYA - 200 ppm. I took the tri-chlor tabs out days ago so there's...

Thanks all. I honestly have no idea what I would do without this forum. What a wealth of knowledge!

Thanks New Dude, I did run my own CYA test with my Taylor 2006 test kit. It did confirm the result I got from Leslie. The black dot was totally obscured before the sample even reached the measurement indicators. I had to retest with a diluted sample and multiply my result by 2 which ended up...

Yes - we removed the tabs from the chlorinator and aren't using them anymore.

Hi Marty, I had the water tested at Leslie's and that's where I originally got the 185 ppm value. I was worried about my chemicals because the FC was high and not coming down, and I didn't understand why. I actually didn't even think CYA could be a problem because I haven't added any, plus I...

Thanks Zea! I tried to add 2 lbs. of baking soda last night to increase the pH, but it didn't make a noticeable difference and my phenol test still gave a yellow result this morning. It looks like I'll need to add borax or soda ash and I think in order to determine how much I need, I have to...

Hello all, my pool chemistry is out of whack and I would appreciate any advice. Our CYA is 185 ppm with Free Chlorine of 27ppm. Our PH is also very low based on using a test strip and from the Leslie's pool store test, which yielded a PH of 6.4. I tried to test PH with our Taylor kit but the...