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I never let PH go over 8. If I take it down to 7.2, 3 gals of bleach will bring it up to around 7.8. I never really add straight CYA to water. When I need to raise CYA, diring swim season, I turn Chlorine Generator down to half its output and put 2 pucks trichlor in skimmer. In total, I use...

Its new territory for me. Me and my buddy who owns a pool store have been discussing it for a while as well. He has even asked his chemical company and not got a great answer. If the SWCG makes it impossible for your PH to drop, unless you add an acid in some form to water, why is maintaining...

I bring borates up to 55 at opening every season. I do not have metal deposits. I never have water problems of any kind. I never have PH fluctuations. It steadily rises due to SWCG. I bring it down once a week.

Thats the point I had gotten to with my old pool. With the salt water, I never have to raise ph. Its always pour in muriatic to lower it. It got me thinking why keep the TA high if my PH never goes down?

Couple days ago, at 5:30 pm. FC 2 Tc 2 Ch 160 Ta 20 Cya 30 Swcg is running at 12% In mid august swcg has to be turned up to 25%. Pool is 32000 gal. SWCG at 100% would make equivalent of 1.5 lb 68% cal hypo per 24 hr. (According to salesman anyway)

Vinyl. Swcg for daily chlorine. Once about every 4 weeks I either put in 3 gallons of liquid Chlorine or 3 lbs of cal-hypo.

I have been pondering for several years why maintain Total Alkalinity in salt water pool. This year, I totally abandoned maintaining T.A. and observed no negative isdues I could observe. I used half the acid I used in previous seasons. Used no baking soda, and had no problems even at end of...

I am going to see how it plays out. The upside is that years ago, I maintained an indoor pool with zero CYA. It was nice to literally be able to shock at 5ppm free chlorine. I am honestly not worried about brief times at near zero chlorine if that should occur. I am old and bull headed and...

Cya is probably closer to 10. I am really not too worried about salt cell prematurely dying at 20% output. If I have to go over 60% output, I might get concerned about premature failure.

I have a 30,000 gallon saltwater pool. I have always maintained CYA at around 40. We changed liner, filter cartridges, and water a couple months ago. I have never brought my CYA level up. The only CYA in the pool is what it got from 8 pucks of trichlor. Due to rain, I have probably let 1200 to...

I bought 8 cases today. 3 of them looked 10 years old. I guess they will be good for washing clothes anyway.

Mother, I would agree with you fiancee. Mother and friend, I agree with you.

The same thing I do most days, nothing. About every 4 days it gets app a cup of muratic acid. About once a month it gets "shocked". I hardly do anything to my pool unless it rains a lot.

Pool supply will be essential in any jurisdiction run by people with a lick of common sense. There are serious health implications from non maintained pools. (Mosquitoes)

My water is crazy hard and full of iron. Thats why I run filters. Notice I said "in a pinch". I did not advocate full time usage.

I agree. I would not even consider going back to non saltwater.

Cal Hypo is not really all that bad in a pinch.

The test showing 4 ppm was done at about 7 pm and the test showing 2 was done about 5 pm the next day.

One heaping scoop always leaves some undisolved on the bottom.

Thanks for that information. That is helpful to know and keep in mind for future reference.

When drop 1 hit the water, it turned dark yellow, about the color of 4. On drop 2, I shook it and the color was as dark as 5. Drop three, four, and five changed the color very little, but they did darken it to a brownish tint.

I have a tf 100 test kit. A chlorine discrepency always exists between the Method using R-0870 / R-0871 and the R-0600 test. Tonight I tested using the R-0600 and it showed my free chlorine as being well over 5 ppm. By drop 2, the color was darker than the 5 PPM color on the scale. I did not...

I will have to try that. :-D

At night with the lights out? That would mean I would have to break out my HID light I use for cave diving. :-D

That is the best way in the world to clean the pool. You can find all kinds of stuff the robots miss. :-D

I am considering D.E. in the distant future.

Mine is crystal clear as well. When you get in the bottom with scuba gear on and lay there and look up you can see that the sand filter is not truly getting everything.

I add ZEO Fiber D.E. substitute to my sand through the skimmer.

I have an odd question that I would welcome your thoughts on. I have for the last couple of years contemplated on adding a cartridge filter down stream of my sand filter. It should work. The sand will get 95% of the trash and the cartridge will catch 99% of what the sand misses. Assuming...

Are you like immune to the chicken farm smell in the summer? We have some here in GA and you can be a ways away from them and smell them, horrible. I live in North East Georgia. We probably do not live too far apart. I am used to the smell. I am not immune to it, but have been around it all...