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Thanks. Last year I think I started at 80 and just let it slowly drift down to ~60 over the course of summer. But agreed that there doesn't seem to be a point in raising it past 60 for me until we get to at least July.

All systems go this morning. Added the 2lbs of CYA that I had leftover. PoolMath tells me that should get me up to ~60. I'll see where it ends up before deciding if I need to add more.

New results: FC: 10 pH: 7.5 TA: 50 CYA: 40 Salt: 4200 I ran the TA test as 'by the book' as I can and I'm confident in the reading. So, I'm not going to mess with it. I'll run the OCLT for the SLAM and then add CYA tomorrow.

I'll update this with my new test results later today

I've always wondered why this is required for the TA test? What is it accomplishing?

My earliest logs from when we initially filled the pool seem to indicate a pH of 7.8 and a TA of 110. I can take a sample of that later today.

Interesting, I am using all new reagents from a set I just got. I did notice the squeeze bottles seem firmer too. I'll re-test everything before I make any more changes.

My fill water is very high TA, so I've never had low TA before. The logs in my account are up to date, but when I opened this past weekend after a lot of draining over winter I had: FC - 0 pH - 7.2 TA - 30 CH - 25 CYA - 40 Salt - 2000 I dumped 4 gallons of bleach to get some immediate FC up to...

I think we're at 6" of rain over the past two weeks here. Insanity. edit: I just went back and checked based on some local weather stations. We've gotten 7.84" in the last 17 days.

I've been using Aldi's house brand bleach for a few years now and never run into an issue with additives.

Stocked up today at Aldi. ~$4.75/gal. Ready to open up whenever the weather decides to not be cold, windy, and rainy.

Ordered my refill kit as well. We got almost 4" of rain on Saturday. I'm kind of scared to peak under the cover and see how things look.

Yesterday was a pool drain day for me as well. Hopefully the last of the year and we can use whatever rain we get from here on out to fill back up in anticipation of opening. I'm thinking early April to pull the cover off and start the pump back up.

Best of luck to all my warm winter friends.

I drained about 4" of water yesterday. Last night we got another 4" of rain.

That is a relief. Perhaps I just hyped myself up into thinking it was a problem when I saw the issues that the other two posters had run into.

I closed my pool two days ago and as part of that, I took the filter cartridges out of my Pentair Clean and Clear 320 cartridge filter and gave them a good cleaning with the hose. This was my first full year using the pool after putting it in last year. I noticed that the end caps for my...

Thats a wrap on our first full pool season. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to maintain the pool all year, even with having to manually vacuum once a week. TFP was no doubt a large contributor in making my first full year of pool ownership a positive one. Closing was easy again. -...

Can you link the adapters I'd need to connect up to the Pentair unions at the pump? I still think the easiest thing for me to do would be to connect to the unions at the SWG. Just not sure what parts I'd need to do that yet.

Just for clarity, you're talking about blowing out from the black Jandy 3 way valve in front of my filter, right?

Here's what my equipment pad looks like. I was hoping to take the SWG out and blow towards the returns (to the right) and backwards towards the filter, pump, skimmers and drain (to the left.) @PoolStored that's interesting. I'd have to get a second pump lid to be able to make that work. I'm not...

Last year was my first year closing. I got by with a large air compressor and air valves threaded into the drain port on my pump. This year I invested in the Cyclone Blower, so I'm trying to figure out how I want to hook that up to blow out the system. I remove my SWG and bring it inside for...

Are we going for pool decking here or like, raised decking?

Sounds like you're looking for a skimmer guard. There are some commercial and DIY options linked here. https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Skimmer_Guards What is your goal with this? Are you trying to heat your pool? You will lose a significant amount of your surface skimming...

I've admittedly never ventured into The Deep End but doesn't some of the salt get used up by the SWG during the chlorine generating process? From what I remember from HS chemistry salt was NaCl, and I always just kind of assumed some of that Cl was getting pulled to make chlorine.

I dump everything into our kitchen sink. The smart stir bean ends up sticking to the metal sink, and then I just wash it off with water from the facuet.