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Ok sounds good

One of my dogs tend to drink from the pool often, despite my best efforts to prevent so I think I should hold off on borates for now

Great, so does that I mean my pool may need more acid treatments to keep that pH on the lower end around 7.2

Definitely over 0.30, looks like 0.32.

OK -- the water fall has no effect on TA. Adding acid does when lowering the pH. But I suspect your fill water has high TA. So you are adding TA when you add fill water. ah yah, I got confused with Ph aeration. I did add a little bit of fill water today. That was the method I used for CH, yes...

My CSI reads at -0.29

I think the TA will naturally come down with my waterfall. I do all my tests with the Taylor2006 kit

Ah, I see the CSI setting. I’ll start doing that, thanks

Yes I’m using Pool Math, but I don’t know what tracking CSI means. I only see FC, pH, TA, CH, CYA, and Salt. I haven’t been keeping logs, but I can start. Regarding CYA, my target is 70-80. 70 is on the low end of ideal. And with the amount of sun I get, what’s the harm in pushing it to the...

I completely cleaned out my SWG from calcium build up - it was pretty bad, but now is spotless. It’s been clean for a couple weeks now. I’ve balanced my pool and lowered pH. Just last night I got the ph down to 7.2. Do I just need to give it more time and try to keep the ph at that level and...

Picked up the cleaning kit (part 520670) this morning, acid washed it this afternoon, took about 45mins and a few cycles. Good as new now! It’s interesting - on the front of the IC40 unit it says to acid wash every 3 months. Never noticed that before. No more white flakes in the pool!

That’s an expensive mistake. Luckily my dumbest mistake so far is putting a check valve on backwards.

Yeah, thanks. I looked that up earlier and my local Leslie’s has it in stock. I’m not dumb enough to stick the entire SWG in acid water, fortunately.

Now that I’m taking care of it myself, that won’t be a problem.

Sounds good, thanks. We have the same salt cell. How often do you clean yours, and do you use acid or vinegar?

For sure, I appreciate the support as I’ve learned a lot.

I asked the tech who came today about this - definitely calcium scale from the SWG. He told me how to remove it, and recommended I flush it with diluted muriatic acid. I’ll need 2 buckets. And just keep flushing it until it’s cleaned out, and not to brush or scrape the metal bars at all. Does...

Oh yeah - when the tech was here he corrected me. I thought fountain meant the waterfall, but I was wrong. He said usually spas have a fountain coming out from the middle, shooting up… mine doesn’t have that currently. Just the opening at the bottom. I guess when original they may of had that...

Tech just left, appreciate how much time he took to walk me through my system in person. I have 3 check valves, I replaced one, checked another and determined it was in good condition, but the 3rd one I didn’t open and turns out that was the one with the problem. Attaching a photo for reference...

I have… I don’t see anything unusual. The suction check was flawless so I just reinstalled and didn’t replace it. I’m resorting to having a tech come out tomorrow and have them look, as well as walk me through my setup. Will report back…

I think I’ll replace the suction check next

Follow up… the pool has been off and the spa is still draining some.

i didn’t see any leaks, and I will try the food color test. In the meantime, I did go ahead and replace the check valve. Attaching some photos here. It seemed to be in good condition? There is one tiny crack in the seal of the flapper. Also including a picture of inside the plumbing to see if...