Hi All,
Greetings from Perth, Western Australia. My wife and I recently bought a home with good sized plaster pool. This is our third pool but I decided this time I wanted to manage it without the pool guy who spends 15 minutes every four weeks and charges $100 plus chemicals.
This pool (not unlike other things in the house) had its share of issues. I went out looking for what to buy for a test kit and found folks in Australia were recommending the Clear Choice Labs kit. I ordered it before we moved in and started testing as soon as we had access.
Here are the original readings:
FC: 1
CC: 0.5
CYA: <20
CH: 450
PH: 7.8 or greater (Probably it was more like 8.2+ but you can't tell in the CCL kit)
TA: 170
Salt: 5000 PPM
About three weeks later, I've read every article on Pool School and lurked in the forums reading about the different challenges members have faced and the great support from the forum.
As of this morning, I'm now at:
FC: 5
CC: 0
CYA: 55 (this has taken a long time and is just now over the last few days showing improvement and I want to make sure there isn't some undissolved before I add more)
TA:110 Another that has been slow but I feel like I understand what's going on now.
PH: 7.4 It still climbs rather quickly so I continue to work on TA.
I've also tested the fill water and found that it has TA = 125 so I suspect that TA will creep up over the summers when rain is very rare and the temps are hot.
I wanted to say thanks...TFP has made me very confident that I can manage the pool. (turns out, I really enjoy it)
Cheers,
Mike
Greetings from Perth, Western Australia. My wife and I recently bought a home with good sized plaster pool. This is our third pool but I decided this time I wanted to manage it without the pool guy who spends 15 minutes every four weeks and charges $100 plus chemicals.
This pool (not unlike other things in the house) had its share of issues. I went out looking for what to buy for a test kit and found folks in Australia were recommending the Clear Choice Labs kit. I ordered it before we moved in and started testing as soon as we had access.
Here are the original readings:
FC: 1
CC: 0.5
CYA: <20
CH: 450
PH: 7.8 or greater (Probably it was more like 8.2+ but you can't tell in the CCL kit)
TA: 170
Salt: 5000 PPM
About three weeks later, I've read every article on Pool School and lurked in the forums reading about the different challenges members have faced and the great support from the forum.
As of this morning, I'm now at:
FC: 5
CC: 0
CYA: 55 (this has taken a long time and is just now over the last few days showing improvement and I want to make sure there isn't some undissolved before I add more)
TA:110 Another that has been slow but I feel like I understand what's going on now.
PH: 7.4 It still climbs rather quickly so I continue to work on TA.
I've also tested the fill water and found that it has TA = 125 so I suspect that TA will creep up over the summers when rain is very rare and the temps are hot.
I wanted to say thanks...TFP has made me very confident that I can manage the pool. (turns out, I really enjoy it)
Cheers,
Mike