salt level

Something odd I noticed this year vs. my previous 5 years. I'm adding less salt to my pool.? My logs show I've added 220 lb this year, 280 last year and 320 the year before. Throwing out the 280 last year due to a leak getting it repaired, if I look at 220 vs 320, that's a considerable...

Hi all, we are about 10 months into our 1st pool. I am trying to figure out which salt level result to trust more. Table below shows results from the TFT salt test (chromium/silver nitrate) and the SWG reading (pentair intellichlor-40) using the reading taken at same time as water sample for...

Hi all, Due to initial misjudgment of pool size, too much salt was added and ppm ended up at 4200 for 3600ppm ideal per SWG user manual. At the same time water hardness was very low at 90ppm. Several water corrections were made including adding some Hardness + to try to bring harness closer to...

The pool store said my pH was 8.0 and my hardness was low and told me the right chemicals to add to my 19k gallon pool. I had a brain fart and mixed up the chemicals and accidentally added 15 lbs of pH down instead of calcium reserve. I was supposed to add 2 lbs 6 oz of pH down. According to a...

Hello again all! Posting this to help my neighbor with a new pool that he just had built. The pool is 37'long x 19' wide, it goes from 3'6" to 6'6"ft. deep. It has a 11'ft x 8'ft. baja shelf and the pool builder is trying to tell him and is adamant that their pool is 29,400+ gallons!!!! I did...