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The reagents in both kits are taylor. Its all about the portion sizes and the packaging.

Not going to be super useful for a vinyl pool. When testing PH, you then use the demand drops to calculate how much acid or base you need to get to your target. Its most useful for a plaster pool when its opened for the first time and drinking alot of acid.

OTO is junk - the health dept doesn't even recognize it for public pools, TFTK uses it for just a check if chlorine is present. Actually, IIRC the TFTK uses a taylor PH in a kit that includes the OTO, so its only there because it would be labor to remove it. The 2006 (and the TFTK) uses FAS-DPD...

Is this area smooth, or is it pitted? The brownish area in the middle of this pic looks like a pit that goes to the gunite. The different colors look like layers of plaster or possibly paint. The first pool i had - there were a bunch of those pits that i though were just stains. Ended up...

You still need to wait 4 more days until you can use chlorine!

Do you have an infloor cleaning system, aka caretaker?

What is the shape of your pool? I had a kidney shaped pool and although the reel helped a lot, it was still a PITA. The middle of the kidney was a "choke point" that would catch the cover. 2 people made it easier, as someone could babysit that edge. A square or rectangle makes the process so...

Man this looks to familiar.... If you run your hand along the wall, does the darker areas feel smooth and the whiter areas feel rough and indented like pitting? It really looks like my pool a couple months ago before i had it re-surfaced. The 35 year old plaster was stained and pitting...

Thanks for the kind words about the pool rehab. I have to credit the wife for the color, i was thinking lighter. Here is an attempt at sharing the white blotches i am concerned about, I took about 20 pics, this is VERY hard to photograph. They are much more noticeable in person than in...

Here is the finished product:

Hello All! Mostly a lurker at this site and the search box usually helps me find what i need. However i am having a difficult time finding the info on whats going on now. Background: 2012 i purchased a house that has a 24k IG kidney. The plaster was pitting rather bad and had some...

Just throwing out odd ideas, but any chance your pool fill water is from a well and your faucet water is from the town municipal supply? Just for sanity, test the water that is coming from the hose you are filling with.