Hello,
Today I tried my new test kit. We had lots of rain last night and I know my chlorine numbers are really low but I decided to wait until after all the rain this evening before I add the 12% Chlorine I bought at the pool store. Please advise as the best approach and what to attack first, I'd like to start a modified version of the BBB because of my work I still will be using my chlorinator and Trichlor pucks along with Liquid chlorine at least until I run out or get the hang of this. I also decided to take in a water sample to see how I compared with the pool store. They use some kind of analysis machine there. I usually put in about 7 pucks in the chlorinator and have it set to 2-2.5 on the settings. I have been checking once a week and usually there is still some in there. I have been running my system at night for savings for 10 hrs. I have a sand filter that I have been backwashing about every other week. As far as the overall pool water other than a little cloudiness in the deep end, the water feels great, no scaling that i can see on walls. Thanks for reading.
My Test with TFT-100
FC .5
Decided not to continue other chlorine test because It was slow
PH 6.8
CH 375
TA 30
CYA 55
Store Pool Water Analysis Report
FC .11
TC .29
Combine Chlorine .18
Ph 6.8
Hardness 191
Alkaninity 34
CYA 67
Copper .4
Iron .1
Borate 8
Today I tried my new test kit. We had lots of rain last night and I know my chlorine numbers are really low but I decided to wait until after all the rain this evening before I add the 12% Chlorine I bought at the pool store. Please advise as the best approach and what to attack first, I'd like to start a modified version of the BBB because of my work I still will be using my chlorinator and Trichlor pucks along with Liquid chlorine at least until I run out or get the hang of this. I also decided to take in a water sample to see how I compared with the pool store. They use some kind of analysis machine there. I usually put in about 7 pucks in the chlorinator and have it set to 2-2.5 on the settings. I have been checking once a week and usually there is still some in there. I have been running my system at night for savings for 10 hrs. I have a sand filter that I have been backwashing about every other week. As far as the overall pool water other than a little cloudiness in the deep end, the water feels great, no scaling that i can see on walls. Thanks for reading.
My Test with TFT-100
FC .5
Decided not to continue other chlorine test because It was slow
PH 6.8
CH 375
TA 30
CYA 55
Store Pool Water Analysis Report
FC .11
TC .29
Combine Chlorine .18
Ph 6.8
Hardness 191
Alkaninity 34
CYA 67
Copper .4
Iron .1
Borate 8