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Living in Austin, we never actually "close" our pool for the season and continue to test 1-2x/week during the winter months. We've noticed our CH test seems off, for lack of a better way of putting it, for the past month or so in that it never really turns blue. Historically (well, since this...

Thanks much for this tip. I got the Taylor K1766 test kit and interestingly that test does not align with what our SWG is telling us. Salt levels per the test kit have been 3400 the past few times, while the SWG indicated 3750 and 3800...

Got the test kit refills when Taylor had them on sale this spring and just recently opened the R-0870 DPD powder. Some of the granules are gray in color, and I notice when I use it to test the water is cloudy (after I add the powder). Results remain the same as they have previously, but every...

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Okay, I did wonder a bit about CYA and thought it might be a bit low. We have the IntelliChlor® Salt Chlorine Generator (will add to signature). Will try this test before adding CYA - thanks. Just turned on CSI but you're right - we only get salt readings from the SWG so just added the Taylor...

That's what we're wondering. We haven't added any calcium products. From when we opened our pool in March 2022 - July 2022 we had two different pool companies doing our maintenance. The first never shared any logs despite repeatedly telling us he would, the second shared logs but no record of...

Thanks for the feedback. A couple of things: Our CH increased ~mid-May. Not sure what causes that. We'd been sitting at ~500-550 for the past year or so (or as long as I can remember, and our pool was opened in March 2022). My understanding is the only thing you can do to lower CH is to...

Is there a preferred way to add Alkalinity Up to the pool - either sprinkling directly onto pool surface or diluting first? (Set aside the fact that we even have Alkalinity Up... I am now seeing that baking soda is basically the same thing but this was something our start-up crew recommended we...

To bump up our FC we just increase the output of our SWG. For example, yesterday I changed it from 25% output to 50% output which brought it from 3 yesterday to 5.2 this morning. So we don't typically use liquid chlorine (not sure if this is right or wrong!). This has been one of the trickier...

I just did the CH test on our fill water and it was 70.

Glad you asked this. Ours does this almost all the time (left in the jug it comes in). I assumed it was normal due to the potency of the MA? 🤷‍♀️

ah, got it. Here you go: PoolMath Logs.

Logs are attached.

Since mid-May, we've noticed some fluctuations with our TA, CH and CYA. Our pH has pretty consistently run high since we opened our pool in March 2022 so it's normal for us to add muriatic acid ~2x/week. However, recently our TA dipped, CH increased and CYA dipped. Our TA and CH have been...

Appreciate ya! I think we've pinpointed the... a-hem... user error... problem within our home (fried cord!).

The pins on the plug that connect our prowler to the control panel got bent so Pentair sent us a new cord which we replaced. Now when we plug it in, the control panel lights up but the cleaner itself is unresponsive when we drop it in the pool. Tried unplugging/plugging back in, power on/off...

CYA is at 50. I use the Pool Math app & the Taylor test kit (forget which one) to test multiple times/week, typically 3 or 4. We do not have automation.

We have an IC SWG. I need help understanding the “Sanitizer Output” LED lights. They had been flashing for several weeks and during this time the Salt Level was "good" per the light on the SWG. During that time, our FC has ranged from 2.6 - 4.8; today it was at 3 and those lights were still...

No, I actually wasn't doing the CC test and tbh I don't know why! I feel like when we got the Taylor kit and did it the first few times, we only did the FC test and I have no idea why we never did CC. In reading the step-by-step instructions I see that I've been totally missing that all along...

Hey all, I feel like we're getting the hang of things now that we've been maintaining our pool ourselves >1 mo. now. I have a few Q's I'm hoping the experts can share their insights on: Our CYA seems to be in a good place now at 60. My limited understanding of CYA is that there's no way to...

The acid treatment was prior to filling. Hard to pinpoint when the blotchy areas first appeared. I remember feeling like it was looking blotchy on the sundeck initially and mentioning it to my husband and he thought it had looked that way all along (but he also didn't see any issue with it...

We'll give it a go... 🤞 It's interesting; our neighbors just up the street have the exact same problem. 🤔 Their pool was opened almost a year before ours. Anyway, here are our latest tests:

We opened our brand new pool mid-March and had a slightly rocky start (took ~month to uncover the cause of a leak so fresh water was constantly being added, pH was consistently high, went thru 2 pool companies but now proudly maintaining on our own thanks to TFP). In the past month or so, our...