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Thanks, I will buy some pucks and a floater. Our CYA is low enough that it can survive a couple for a week. I'll lower the pH and then fix it when we return.

We are going to be gone for a week in August, and are a little worried about maintaining the pH of our pool while we are away. It is a new gunite pool with SWG, so the pH has been always heading to the up side. We have usually been adding muriatic acid every other day to keep it where it needs...

Yes, I was SO glad to find this website before we even had ours built. It showed me there was a whole lot better way to maintain a pool than hiring a pool service. It was also so helpful to have guidance about knowing the equipment to purchase. By rounding up to the nearest number on the cya...

Here are my current readings as of this morning: FC - 4 CC - 0 TC - 4 CH - 300 TA - 110 CYA - 35 pH - 7.4 The muriatic acid managed to knock the pH down well. I bumped the SWG up a couple of %, so guessing that is why my chlorine level is up. My CYA is still low, and haven't added anything yet...

At this point, I'm not really sure what to target with the CYA or CH. I'm sure at some point it will click and make sense, but it's all a blur right now. I will start low with the cyanuric acid and test from there. To complicate matters, we have had a LOT or rain in the past 2 weeks, which makes...

The pool builder did add shock when starting the pool chemistry. They also used 3 chlorine pucks in the skimmer basket, which have since dissolved. I'll retest the FC / CC / pH and post back later today. I really don't understand the CC info at all. In regards to testing TC with the yellow...

I’ve been reading this forum since before we started our pool in February, so have learned a lot along the way. Our builder completed our pool last week, and had his folks come out and do the startup chemistry. They added the salt at the end of last week, and have now turned us loose with the...