low total alkalinity

Hello! I've had a salt pool (vynil lined) for a year now. We always had trouble with lower pH around 6.9, but otherwise we had no issues. We kind of neglected the pool during 6 weeks last winter and the water turned green. The pump wasn't enough to clear it so we added some chlorine. After that...

I recently (a few months ago) started assisting with pool operations at a small hotel. The person I assist told me that we have to add total alkalinity every morning to bring the levels up since the drop every day. For example, if I add bicarb in the morning and bring the level up to 80ppm (the...

I have a Pentair MasterTemp 400K BTU Heater that is under warranty (pool startup was Thanksgiving 2021...so ~21 months ago). It recently started leaking, and the technician came out yesterday and confirmed that it is totaled. He pulled off the heater manifold, and the copper tubing had corroded...

Hi all. My new plaster/pebble pool is around 4-5 months old and I was having issues with the PH rising to between 8.0 and 8.2 every day. I was trying to get the PH to stay at around 7.5 or 7.6 so each day I was having to add Muriatic acid to drop the PH. Well, Alk drops too when adding...

I've been at my indoor facility for just over a year now, and since I've started we have never been able to maintain ideal TA levels. I've maintained many pools over the years and have never had this issue. We are constantly adding bicarb in order to bring it up, but it seems that after the...

Hi all, We’re in Canada and we’ve just moved in to a new house and I’m planning to open the existing ~16x32 (~19000 gallons/ ~72000 liters) winterized concrete pool. I haven’t bought a the recommended test kit yet but I have used a test strip as to get a general idea of the current water...