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Oops. Didn't know that about PH and chlorine! Even with the 8 oz of muriatic acid though, it shouldn't have dropped the PH below 7.6... With the slam, do I need to wait until chlorine maintains a reading of 20 overnight, or is a 3 ppm loss considered acceptable?

Started getting the pool ready for winter yesterday. Removed stairs, brushed and vacuumed. Water analysis was as follows: FC 3.5 CC 0.5 PH 8.0 CH 25 TA 70 SALT 2130 CYA 50 Water temp 48 degrees F My target for slamming was an FC of 20 (based on CYA OF 50). So I added 264 oz of 10.8% chlorine...

My husband and I bought a used hot tub a few weeks ago. I'm estimating the tub to be approx. 320 gallons. I've read through how to chlorinate your spa several times but I'm finding myself much more confused about maintaining it than our pool.... To begin we superchlorinated and ran ahh-some. Or...

Okay, it's taken 8 days but the pool is finally filled! My husband got the equipment setup yesterday and the pump is now running. I have been dosing with liquid chlorine every night, guesstimating the volume of water and targeting an FC of 3ppm. Here are my very first set of test results: FC .5...

I do have a TF-100 test kit already, however our water level is much too low to test at the moment. Until it rises, do I assume that FC is 0 everyday since there is no CYA in the water yet? It sounds like the consensus is to wait until the water level is high enough to begin running the pump...

We just got our AGP setup yesterday. Although I've read through pool school twice while waiting for our pool to be up, I still feel like a complete newbie! And am in need of advice/encouragement. :) We are filling with well water through our water softener (removes our iron). Our fill time will...

My husband and I just received our pool shipment and have been preparing to install in the next couple of weeks. My TF-100 test kit, and SWG should arrive this coming week. My question is with startup. We will be filling with well water that passes through a water softener (filters out our...

Hi Everyone! My husband and I recently decided to buy an AG pool. It should be delivered sometime next week. In the meantime, we have begun planning a large deck addition, started stripping sod, and scouring the net for as much info as possible. I found your site a little while back and have...