csi

This is my first closing and I was wondering, since temperature has such a drastic downward effect on CSI, do folks adjust their chemistry with CSI in mind for the cold weather? Should I bring my pH up to 8+ or spike my TA before closing? I have a vinyl liner, so I'm not particularly concerned...

Hi there, Happy to find out about this community. My husband and I just bought our first house with a 1.8K gal saltwater pool combined with 0.9K spa. We are complete newbies to pool maintenance. When we moved in, pool water TA was around 280 ppm and pH was above 8.4. During the last week, we...

I did a complete rebuild of my pool in June. Removed the old plaster, all the tile, and the coping, and replaced it with Mini Pebble, Glass Tile, and Stamped Concrete Coping. So it is only seven months old. I tested my fill water before filling: All tests done with Taylor K-2006 June 12, 2023 -...

Not sure what happened, this past winter, the PH and TA did creep up to 8.1 and 120, and the calcium dropped from 230 down to 130. Added some calcium and brought it up a little. Any long term concerns with CH - 170 if I maintain my TA and PH within a reasonable range? Any reason to try and...

Are you ever successful in balancing the Calcium Saturation Index without having to adjust the alkalinity and/or calcium saturation by a large amount? <----- aggressive ------ 0 ------ scaling ------> I'm doing ok... but I could be doing better (in terms of managing my CSI between summer &...

I just installed a SWG about 2 months ago and I'm still getting used to the variations in chemistry balance. My numbers look generally in range, but the final CSI result is strongly negative (about -0.66 this last week). That seems bad to me. How bad is that? Tested just now: FC = 6.5 pH = 7.5...

Hey All! Great to be a part of the TFP community. Moved into my house 2 yrs ago and did the pool store hustle for the past two seasons with expected results (wasted money, effort and lots of frustration). My filter blew out late fall before a heavy freeze and had to semi winterize my pool at...

Posting new thread per @mguzzy: My csi has been within optimal range and I am getting white flakes out of my returns, as generated by SWG. Pool store states calcium hardness at about 440 or so. My fill water is about 200-250 if memory is correct. Replacing evaporation loss always adds more CA...

BACKGROUND: My pool: 21000 gallon in-ground gunite salt water pool, new October 2018, screened in. Hayward PL-PS4 controller, Hayward T-CELL-9 salt cell, Hayward C3030 cartridge filter, Hayward Ecostar SP3400VSP pump. Set to do a little over 2 full turnovers per day. South Florida climate...

Dear experts, I have a fairly new 5600 gal plaster spool with IC20 SCG. I recently purchased TF-100 kit to manage my own water and here are my numbers: Free chlorine: 4 ppm Total chlorine: 5 ppm Calcium hardness: 700 ppm (tested fill water supply and it is 50 ppm) TA: 130 CYA: 60 Salt: 4000 pH...

Curious, TFP pool app is suggesting my CSI is setting conditions for corrosion to begin with a CSI at -0.6 is that correct? My PH is about 7.6 and my TA is about 65. CH is a little low at 250. I understand PH can help adjust CSI but I generally don’t go much higher. Thoughts or am I okay...

I have and IG vinyl pool and never really paid much attention to my low CH (at least since using the TFP method) and therefore didn't manage my CSI. However this year I went all in with Inyo Pool and installed their Crystal Pure 60k SWCG along with the Purline 1.65hp VS pump. I believe that I...