Hey guys,
Many of you have been through my saga. Basically when I first started my Ph was very stable and my pool had an ammonia problem. I had no algae or problems but all the chlorine I put in my pool would be instantly converted to CC. I eventually gave up and put in roughly 2 qt 6% bleach a day and called it a day. After about a month, to my surprise, the pool started holding chlorine and has been "normal" ever since. My CYA was 0 so I was using trichlor to get my CYA up but I overdid it with stabilized granules and my CYA got to 70. I stopped using trichlor. All I ever really used was 4-5 pucks in a floater at a time and the floater sucked so the pucks would last a really long time...
Fast forward to now, I am using 12.5% chlorine from a local supplier. No trichlor. My pool consumes what I consider to be a large amount of chlorine - around 2 qt 12.5% per day with much of the consumption during the daylight hours. My CC is 0. Once I started down this path my pool started having a huge acid demand. It's consuming around 3 qt per week of muriatic acid to keep the Ph at 7.5. My CH is 325 and hasn't moved all year. My TA is at 130 and hasn't moved all year. Any idea what to do to quench the acid demand? My plaster is very old (25 years) so that shouldn't be causing it. I add chlorine all at once in the evenings. When nobody is swimming in the pool I might add every other day instead of every day.
I honestly don't mind the money or the high chlorine consumption but I really hate handling muriatic acid. I'm surprised my TA hasn't moved at all despite rmeoving and adding water, lots of swimming, etc.
If this thread needs moved to another group that's fine...
Many of you have been through my saga. Basically when I first started my Ph was very stable and my pool had an ammonia problem. I had no algae or problems but all the chlorine I put in my pool would be instantly converted to CC. I eventually gave up and put in roughly 2 qt 6% bleach a day and called it a day. After about a month, to my surprise, the pool started holding chlorine and has been "normal" ever since. My CYA was 0 so I was using trichlor to get my CYA up but I overdid it with stabilized granules and my CYA got to 70. I stopped using trichlor. All I ever really used was 4-5 pucks in a floater at a time and the floater sucked so the pucks would last a really long time...
Fast forward to now, I am using 12.5% chlorine from a local supplier. No trichlor. My pool consumes what I consider to be a large amount of chlorine - around 2 qt 12.5% per day with much of the consumption during the daylight hours. My CC is 0. Once I started down this path my pool started having a huge acid demand. It's consuming around 3 qt per week of muriatic acid to keep the Ph at 7.5. My CH is 325 and hasn't moved all year. My TA is at 130 and hasn't moved all year. Any idea what to do to quench the acid demand? My plaster is very old (25 years) so that shouldn't be causing it. I add chlorine all at once in the evenings. When nobody is swimming in the pool I might add every other day instead of every day.
I honestly don't mind the money or the high chlorine consumption but I really hate handling muriatic acid. I'm surprised my TA hasn't moved at all despite rmeoving and adding water, lots of swimming, etc.
If this thread needs moved to another group that's fine...