baking soda

This is our 3rd season with our vinyl, salt water pool. Our pool has always been crystal clear. As I started learning about maintaining our pool I made notes about what to adjust first if needed. This year, I noted that our CH level was 140 and the recommended level was 200-400. I bought...

Hi guys, I'm new to the forum and pool caring. Have the pool for a couple months and was taking care of it with dichlor only. And it was crystal clear. But my pH was around 7 - 7.2 and last week I added sodium carbonate to raise the pH. The same night I shocked the pool. The next day the...

Hi all, I have some new stains on the floor of the deep end of my pebble-tec pool. I thought they were created just because I waited a couple minutes before sweeping away the baking soda I had added before adding calcium chloride. But reading through other threads, I wonder now if I added the...

Hi all, 15k gallon non-salt water pool. My TA was low 4 weeks ago (30) so I added 16lbs of baking soda. The pH kept rising to 8+ super fast after that so I kept adding muriatic acid to bring it back down. Today I tested my TA again and it's only 47, so I added 4lbs baking soda. My pH is rising...

So I need to raise chlorine levels from 2-4, calcium 100-300 and alk 70-100 all else is in range. I got a giant bag of baking soda, calcium chloride, and multiple liquid bleach 10% I assume I start with the liquid bleach since sanitize first, but I thought I needed to get calcium levels right...