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I added some more borax and acid to increase my borates from 30 to 50. My question is, how long should I wait before swimming again? thanks

I have the Pentair Intellibrite LED light and after having it on for about 10 minutes it starts shutting off and on. What could be the problem? The light is only a year old. thanks, Ken

I shocked the pool a couple days ago because of CC level of 1.0. At what level of FC can I let the kids back in the pool? FC 15.0 CC 0 PH 7.6 TA 70 CYA 70 CH 325 Salt 3200 Borates 50 Thanks, Ken

I'm going to shock my pool. The Chlorine/CYA chart in Pool School tells me to use shock level of 30 (my cya is 80 and FC is 5.5). However, the pool calculator is saying to shock it at 21. Which one should I use? thanks,

Is it safe to use bleach when shocking a pool with a pebbletec surface?

Thanks to all the help on this site, my pool looks great and the numbers look good.......I think. :lol: FC 6 CC 0 PH 7.6 TA 90 CH 300 CYA 80 Borates 50 I'm trouble free!!

I'm using these strips to test my salt levels. The label says to read the top of white peak. Pool guy looking at the SWG today says to read the strip by seeing where the top of the white line is solid all the way across the yellow strip and read it from there, which is a lower reading. So is...

I added 5 cups of calcium granular yesterday to increase CH from 275 to 300. Today it's still measuring at 275. Should I wait to restest again or add more? Had same problem with CYA. Added granular stabilizer last week and still no change as of today? FC 7 CC 0 PH 7.6 TA 90 CH 275 CYA 50...

I saw this chart in the Taylor Test Kit guide book that has you use a "Cyanuric Acid Correction to Total Alkalinity" chart to make a correction to your TA reading. Is this chart useful or no?? It drops my TA from 100 to 77 when applying that correction. :shock:

I read through pool school and was wondering if those numbers would be sufficient for my pool. I'm targeting...... FC 3 PH 7.6 TA 90 CH 300 CYA 70 Borates 50 Those numbers give me a CSI of -0.26 Pool specifics are in my signature and also run a water fall when pump is running. I'm noticing...

Added borates yesterday with the borax/acid method. Here's the latest, FC 3 TC 2 PH 8 TA 140 CH 225 Will test the borates tomorrow. Should I correct the PH and TA now or wait another day to see if they come down?

Tested this morning... FC 2 TC 2 CC 0 PH 7.4 TA 110 Salt 3400 CYA 40 (added 60oz of stabilizer per TFP calculator to bring it up to 70) Plan on doing Borats next week! Kenny

Hello, New to this site. My pool store told me all my numbers look good except for the phospates are high. Is this really a concern or are they just trying to sell me more chemical? 14000 gallon inground salt generator I/C40 pebbletech FC5 PH8.0 (just added 3 cups of acid) TA80 CA150 CYA 50...