If you've been following my story, you know we moved the pump and filter equipment. That equipment was down nearly 4 weeks while this went on. While all this was happening, I got my TF test kit and posted numbers that were decent. The CH was high, nearly 550. Some of you mentioned draining half the pool, which on researching I found out a way to do it - I was going to let the chemicals mostly leach out so I could dump in part of our yard where this had obviously been done before (we are on septic, this is city regs). When I researched that, it turns out that I had to fill out a variance for our water service (didn't know about this) which allows us to refill the pool once every 5 yrs and not get charged in their Tier 3 or higher rates. Because I just found out about this, I sent in the variance this week. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to do this for another 3 weeks or so.
I measured my numbers this morning, except CH.
FC 4.5 (I dumped in a bunch of chlorine yesterday - have yellow stuff on the walls (algae?))
CC 0
Ph 8.2
TA 60
CYA less than 20 (I could still see the dot and ran out of space in the tube)
Entering this information in the pool calculator, I see what I need to do - muriatic acid to bring down the Ph so the chlorine is stable etc. The TA needs to be increased from what I read and also need to raise the CYA, correct? What order do I do all this? Is there one item better to increase first and then measure again?
As usual, thanks for any help
Anne
I measured my numbers this morning, except CH.
FC 4.5 (I dumped in a bunch of chlorine yesterday - have yellow stuff on the walls (algae?))
CC 0
Ph 8.2
TA 60
CYA less than 20 (I could still see the dot and ran out of space in the tube)
Entering this information in the pool calculator, I see what I need to do - muriatic acid to bring down the Ph so the chlorine is stable etc. The TA needs to be increased from what I read and also need to raise the CYA, correct? What order do I do all this? Is there one item better to increase first and then measure again?
As usual, thanks for any help
Anne