You are correct. Look at what he posted above though. That is what I thought would happen. He had some CYA in the water so I wanted to make sure he did not raise it too much. It turned out just right.
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You are correct. Look at what he posted above though. That is what I thought would happen. He had some CYA in the water so I wanted to make sure he did not raise it too much. It turned out just right.
Kim
Even with my CYA at 35ppm right now, I'm loosing about 5ppm of chlorine during the day but figure that's because of the all the yucky stuff that the chlorine is sanitizing. It was 90 and sunny yesterday, now we are looking at rain the next 3 days and temps in the 50's on Saturday.
This is what the pool looked like after I vacuumed, brushed and skimmed yesterday evening.
This mornings test result: FC = 14ppm need to add 30 oz of bleach to get me back to 16ppm
Picture from this morning, didn't brush or anything, skimmer was clean. I'll brush it at lunch depending on how my neck/shoulder feels.
Picture from this morning, didn't brush or anything, skimmer was clean. I'll brush it at lunch depending on how my neck/shoulder feels.
Thanks!!!
It is getting bluer! Nice to see that movement!
Kim
Slowly but surely!!!
For the life of me I can not figure out why my pressure drops to about half or more. There is nothing blocking the line from the skimmer to the pump basket or from the pump to the filter. It just blows my mind and as I said before, it happens at least once a day. To get the pressure back up I have to flip it over to backwash for a few seconds, then to rinse and then back to filter. Now this morning I didn't go to rinse after the short backwash, went to filter and it blew green water into my pool for a few seconds.....grrrrr!!!
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Thanks!!!
Slowly but surely!!!
For the life of me I can not figure out why my pressure drops to about half or more. There is nothing blocking the line from the skimmer to the pump basket or from the pump to the filter. It just blows my mind and as I said before, it happens at least once a day. To get the pressure back up I have to flip it over to backwash for a few seconds, then to rinse and then back to filter. Now this morning I didn't go to rinse after the short backwash, went to filter and it blew green water into my pool for a few seconds.....grrrrr!!!
So you don't feel crazy.... my filter actually doesn't increase and starts to decrease when I need to do something lol No idea why but that is what it does...
When I first moved in here, the water and flow were good and then the gauge started reading zero (literally) and I couldn't run my vacuum.. after the first cleaning of the filter it went right back to normal...
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LOL!!!
Well apparently that's my case then also, makes no sense but guess I'll just go with it.
**update**
Was talking with one of the engineers I work with and I think the cause of my pressure drop is the multi-port valve isn't making a tight seal and lets a little air in and over time it causes a pressure drop. I didn't notice a drop of water running down from it this morning. Guess I will take it off and re-seat it and see if that fixes the issue.
It all depends on where in the system the gauge is installed. If it's between the inlet and the filter media it will rise as the filter gets dirty. If it's between the filter media and the outlet, it will fall.
There you go. Mystery solved. That's a rather interesting place for it. What model filter is it?
Good question, I'm not sure off the top of my head. I'll look at lunch and post it. I swear that last year when the filter would get dirty the pressure would go up on the gauge??? I've slept a few times since then and can't remember for sure....LOL
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Lol well mine is on top of my filter... told you I am weird [emoji23][emoji23]
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Haha yes you are weird!!! LOL
Makes perfect sense that the pressure would drop since mine is right before the outlet. For some reason I just thought my pressure went up when it needed backwashed, probably because that's what everyone else's on here does.
Makes perfect sense that the pressure would drop since mine is right before the outlet. For some reason I just thought my pressure went up when it needed backwashed, probably because that's what everyone else's on here does.
On another note...I was talking with my co-worker who has an AGP and was talking to him about using the TFP method this year (tried getting him to do it last year and it was a no go). He just said he's gonna throw some bleach in there when he takes the cover off and then use pucks like he has every year. His pool is a swamp like mine, can't wait to see how long it takes him to get his clear. Watch it'll be faster than mine....LOL
His attitude is, just throw a puck in the floater and call it good, check with test strips and if the water smells like chlorine then it's all good.
His attitude is, just throw a puck in the floater and call it good, check with test strips and if the water smells like chlorine then it's all good.
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Yuck.. I would not want to swim in that... sadly, I don't swim anywhere but my pool [emoji23][emoji23]
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That's ironic. When my pool smells like chlorine, I know something's wrong!
The beauty is; his pool will never be as clear as yours. Even when he drains it and refills, it will still be cloudier then yours.