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FC 5.5 CC .5 PH 7.6 CH 700 TA 90 CYA ??? After finally getting our pool on track at the end of last season, it took 1/4 gallon of chlorine to keep the correct levels throughout the winter. Starting around the end of March I had to increase the daily chlorine to 1/2 gallon per day to keep it at...

8:30 am FC 8.5 no loss overnight, so still doing great. I think we finally have this pool under control...knock on wood!

12 hours later 8:30 pm FC 6, down 2 again, CC 0 First time for zero CC reading. Putting In another quart to bump it back up to 8. Had a little more rain today, not much though and still cool. We've been able to turn off the A/C yesterday and today and open windows. Still fighting that cold...

8:30 am FC 6 down 2 since 12:45 pm yesterday. Bumping it back up to 8. And we had a lot of rain between those two readings! It feels good only using around a quart of chlorine each day, but sad that it's gotten colder, 69 degrees today, and the water is too cold to enjoy the pool.

We didn't have a chance to test it last night so the last results we posted were taken at 2pm yesterday and after bumping up it c should have been FC 8.5 Today 6 am FC 7.5 12:45 pm FC 5.5 CC .5

We didn't get to test the pool until 2pm today, 18 hours since last test. I'm happy to report FC 6.5 down only 2. We're bumping it back to 8.5. Feels good to be using only one quart of chlorine a day. I know it's only been 2 days, but I'm hopeful that this will continue to be our norm. I'm...

7:45 pm FC 6.5 went down 2 since this morning CC .5 Looking good!

7 am FC 8.5 CC .5. Only went down .5 last night and CC's held... Yay Last year I drove to Chicago for my daughter's bridal shower. When I picked my other daughter up to go with us she was extremely sick with a fever, congestion, etc. I found Airborne everyday plus multivitamin at the store...

Sorry i haven't posted numbers last night or today. My granddaughter gave me her cold and I was in bed all day with a fever, bad congestion and very sore throat. I finally got up a just little while ago. Last night when we went to bed FC 8.5. This morning FC 8, this afternoon FC 7 when Rusty...

Gene, I just saw your message and sent you a reply. I didn't even realize those messages were there. Bonnie

2:30 pm FC 12 down 7 in 9 hours 45 minutes

So yesterday turned out to be a good day. It started out bad, losing 4 overnight, but that included a few hours of bright sunlight since we slept in longer and didn't test until 8:30 am. After that we tested at 12:45 pm FC 18.5 (with a loss of 1.7), bumped it up to 20.5, tested again at 6:30...

Gene - Yes, it is an estimate from pool math on what the level will be when we add "x" amount. Throughout this process we've only done a 30 minute retest after an add a handful of times, when told to do it. I'm pretty sure every time we retested, our level was exactly where pool math said it...

We just looked at the video. Rusty gets the sample in exactly the same way. When adding and counting the drops Rusty uses more of a swirling motion instead of shaking back and forth. He also puts in a drop swirls, stops swirling, adds another drop, swirls, etc. He doesn't usually swirl...

The odd number of 1.7 came up because he added an odd amount of chlorine (like over or under an ounce or two of a quart) which using pool math brought the level up to an odd amount. I hope that makes sense to you. We have always used a sample of 10ml. I started writing down our test results...

12:45 pm FC 18.5, down 1.7 in 4 hours 15 minutes. We sure hope someone can figure this out. Rusty does every test the same way so we don't think it would be a test error on his part. We don't see anything anywhere in the pool that looks like algae. We seldom get anything in the pool and the...

Glad to have someone else from AZ here! If you or Gene are ever in the neighborhood of Signal Butte and Southern and want to stop by to take a look at our pool to see if you can find anything we are missing, then by all means, come on by. Rusty has checked everything he sees for hidden algae...

Yesterday morning results showed we lost 5ppm chlorine overnight. After bumping it up to 23 the next test was done 5.25 hours later and we lost 3ppm to bring it down to 20. We didn't add any more chlorine since it held at 20 the rest of the day, so when we went to bed at 11pm the pool was left...

Forgot to post our numbers in the last post. 6:15 pm FC 20, stayed the same in the last 5 hours. We will run a new set of tests on everything in the morning. 10:45 pm FC 20, stayed the same in the last 4.5 hours, CC 1 Looking better. Keeping fingers crossed for good overnight numbers.

Here is a link to the photos of our pool, equipment, and the water: Pool by rustyandbonnie | Photobucket our water had been a clear green color and we were told by the store clerk to buy a pool Rx and it would clear up the algae. It did clear it up, but about a week later we saw a bunch of...

Rusty is wondering if he needs to do anything about the PH levels? Both stores said it was high. He just tested it with our basic kit. The color doesn't match any of the colors on the strip but looks like a darker shade of the 7.5 (quit a bit darker, but not at all similar in color to the...

I'll have Rusty recheck the CYA next time he goes out to test the chlorine level. If you multiply the number of drops by 0.5 you will get the same answer you get when you divide by 2. I just find it easier to divide.

Gene, Rusty looked behind the weir plate this morning and it was totally clean. if we get a syringe to do the test with 5 ml, do we put in 1 heaping spoon of powder like we do for the 10 ml test, or is it a level scoop? Then, we count the drops, but don't divide by 2 like we do for the 10 ml...

He hasn't treated the ants for a couple of months other than pouring chlorine in a couple of ant hills. If you walk around our yard, you can see ants crawling around everywhere. When we get paid at the end of this week we are going to get some more stuff to spray around the perimeter of the...

Good morning everyone. Not good on our numbers! FC 15, down 5 overnight, bumping back up to 23. CC 2 Rusty has been treating for ants ever since we moved in. They are everywhere in our yard. Only in the last couple of weeks has he not treated with any chemicals because we haven't had the...

10:00pm FC 20, down only 1 in 4 hours 15 minutes CC 1.5 Glad to hear you are doing fine. The 58 CYA level was probably because we didn't round up. It was done a while ago and was our first time so I'm guessing that we didn't know to round up. Rusty said he's already checked everything he can...

Okay, Rusty estimates that the lemon tree is about 15 feet away from the pool (from the trunk and the branches probably hang out about 4 feet closer) behind the two palm trees. Then there are the two palm trees and I don't know exactly what type of Palm tree they are. The one palm tree has...

5:45 pm FC 17, dropped 7 in the last 9 hours., bumping it back up to 21. Here we go again, only lost one overnight and now 7 through this hot, sunny day. Anyone know what the record is for the longest number of days for a SLAM to work? I'm beginning to think we are going to break it, whatever...

8:00 am FC 20 CC 1, yay only down 1 overnight and we rechecked the chlorine add last night for accuracy. Rusty is leaving for work at 9 am and won't be back home to retest until close to 6 pm. He is bumping it up to 23. I told him he should retest in 30 minutes to see if we get the desired...

Tge bleach was bought from NPS pools in Mesa on Gilbert Rd near Baseline. It is 10% hypochlorite, Desert Formula Ultra- filtered liquid Chlorinator. We don't see a date on it. The reagents were all bought at TFTestkits. We just received them on Saturday. If the 11:40 FC 25 reading was...