- Jun 26, 2011
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I started the TFP method last summer, and it has been great. I pretty much left the pool alone for the past few months, and am now starting the process of waking it up for the upcoming year...
When I started TFP, I was fighting high CYA. I dumped a bunch of water out of it and got it down to around 80. That worked fine, and the pool was great all summer long.
I didn't do frequent CYA testing as I figured it wasn't necessary. I wasn't using any stabilized chlorine, and I didn't drain out a bunch of water. Just the normal splash loss. Should be minimal, right? So I assumed the level would stay the same, or close to it...
I did a CYA test today and got less than 30. Took it to the local pool store schmuck, and he got 25.
His expert opinion was that it was lost to "rainwater displacement"... I wasn't buying that.
Of course, his advice was to leave it be, because the CYA would be replaced as I added chlorine tablets. The look on his face when I said I didn't use them, and that I used Clorox instead, was priceless!
Anyway... where did my CYA go?
I guess 25 is too low? Not a salt pool, in Houston, Texas. 18,000 gallons, gets a ton of sun in the summer...
Target level?
Thanks in advance...
When I started TFP, I was fighting high CYA. I dumped a bunch of water out of it and got it down to around 80. That worked fine, and the pool was great all summer long.
I didn't do frequent CYA testing as I figured it wasn't necessary. I wasn't using any stabilized chlorine, and I didn't drain out a bunch of water. Just the normal splash loss. Should be minimal, right? So I assumed the level would stay the same, or close to it...
I did a CYA test today and got less than 30. Took it to the local pool store schmuck, and he got 25.
His expert opinion was that it was lost to "rainwater displacement"... I wasn't buying that.
Of course, his advice was to leave it be, because the CYA would be replaced as I added chlorine tablets. The look on his face when I said I didn't use them, and that I used Clorox instead, was priceless!
Anyway... where did my CYA go?
I guess 25 is too low? Not a salt pool, in Houston, Texas. 18,000 gallons, gets a ton of sun in the summer...
Target level?
Thanks in advance...