I'm giving the pool maintenance a try since my husband who only really focused on the FC level using HTH test strips. We could never get our FC to register on the test strips (said 0) unless we added a Trichlor puck or shocked it. I have obtained a Taylor K-2006 test kit.
Our pool water is sparkling clear; our test results have some issues though...
On July 10, I tested with the Taylor K-2006 and received these test results:
FC: 1 (A Trichlor puck was added plus a shock treatment on July 6 since we were going to be out of town for the weekend and didn't want to return to a green pool. SWG was not run during this time.)
CC: .5
PH: over 8 (wouldn't register on test)
TA: 425
CYA: under 30 (wouldn't register on test)
CH: 800 (kept getting purple result so had to mix with distilled water)
After getting these results on July 10, we added a gallon of Muriatic Acid to lower PH and TA and then started the SWG. Our CH is so high that our SWG can only run for about 12 hours and it stops with 91 low salt alarm. Since our FC is always low, we try to run it in 12 hour spans but we need to clean it after each cycle. Since our FC was so low and we had at least 100 water boatman bugs swimming in the pool, I threw a Trichlor puck in the skimmer (July 10).
On July 11, I added 1 lb of CYA to the skimmer basket directly.
I didn't have time to do a full CYA test so I used a test strip and didn't see any change in CYA. PH was down to 6.8 according to the test strip.
Water boatman are all dead now--not a single one there. Yeah!!
Today, at 10 AM, I added another 1/2 lb CYA in a sock in the skimmer basket. By 4:00 I was able to get it all dissolved in the sock.
I tested today at about 5 PM and these are my results:
FC: 5.5 (with 1 Trichlor tab--only ran SWG one 12 hour cycle on July 10
CC: 2
PH: 7.4
TA: 400
CYA: under 30 (wouldn't register on test)
CH: 800 (didn't retest)
I just don't know where to go from here? Should we be shocking with bleach since the CYA just doesn't seem to move? Is my CH of 800 so high we should forget about trying to use a SWG?
Thank you for your help!!!!!
Our pool water is sparkling clear; our test results have some issues though...
On July 10, I tested with the Taylor K-2006 and received these test results:
FC: 1 (A Trichlor puck was added plus a shock treatment on July 6 since we were going to be out of town for the weekend and didn't want to return to a green pool. SWG was not run during this time.)
CC: .5
PH: over 8 (wouldn't register on test)
TA: 425
CYA: under 30 (wouldn't register on test)
CH: 800 (kept getting purple result so had to mix with distilled water)
After getting these results on July 10, we added a gallon of Muriatic Acid to lower PH and TA and then started the SWG. Our CH is so high that our SWG can only run for about 12 hours and it stops with 91 low salt alarm. Since our FC is always low, we try to run it in 12 hour spans but we need to clean it after each cycle. Since our FC was so low and we had at least 100 water boatman bugs swimming in the pool, I threw a Trichlor puck in the skimmer (July 10).
On July 11, I added 1 lb of CYA to the skimmer basket directly.
I didn't have time to do a full CYA test so I used a test strip and didn't see any change in CYA. PH was down to 6.8 according to the test strip.
Water boatman are all dead now--not a single one there. Yeah!!
Today, at 10 AM, I added another 1/2 lb CYA in a sock in the skimmer basket. By 4:00 I was able to get it all dissolved in the sock.
I tested today at about 5 PM and these are my results:
FC: 5.5 (with 1 Trichlor tab--only ran SWG one 12 hour cycle on July 10
CC: 2
PH: 7.4
TA: 400
CYA: under 30 (wouldn't register on test)
CH: 800 (didn't retest)
I just don't know where to go from here? Should we be shocking with bleach since the CYA just doesn't seem to move? Is my CH of 800 so high we should forget about trying to use a SWG?
Thank you for your help!!!!!