Hello to all, [And Happy St. Patrick's Day]
Needed to raise the TA so it called for 7.8lbs of sodium bicarbonate. I typically pour 2lbs [from a 4lb box] into a 5 gal bucket gradually as I add water up to 4 gal and stir rapidly. Then toss across the top of the pool...the bottom of the bucket has some white ooze on it, so I add another gal to dissolve and toss across the top.
After the final 2 of 8lbs added, I peered on the bottom and didn't see any white globs, so it's pretty well mixed, then pump to circulate.
The next day, [and I didn't notice it any other time], when the pump stopped it's 2nd of 4 cycles, I noticed the spillway of spa into pool when it dried looked like a heavy Calcium build-up, which couldn't happen that fast. My question is how long do any particulates from the sodium bicarbonate /H2O solution stay in solution? What I think I saw was some residual that dried on the spillway.
Thank you very much,
tstex
Needed to raise the TA so it called for 7.8lbs of sodium bicarbonate. I typically pour 2lbs [from a 4lb box] into a 5 gal bucket gradually as I add water up to 4 gal and stir rapidly. Then toss across the top of the pool...the bottom of the bucket has some white ooze on it, so I add another gal to dissolve and toss across the top.
After the final 2 of 8lbs added, I peered on the bottom and didn't see any white globs, so it's pretty well mixed, then pump to circulate.
The next day, [and I didn't notice it any other time], when the pump stopped it's 2nd of 4 cycles, I noticed the spillway of spa into pool when it dried looked like a heavy Calcium build-up, which couldn't happen that fast. My question is how long do any particulates from the sodium bicarbonate /H2O solution stay in solution? What I think I saw was some residual that dried on the spillway.
Thank you very much,
tstex