Hi all,
I was away for 3 weeks and my husband was managing the hot tub. Since it's been so windy here in the north east, he was only in a few times while I was gone because we sit in a big open field and any bad wind like that is brutal. He put in a 1 tbsp of Leisure time replenish after each dip (was was 3 in the last week). When we tested today we got the following numbers (note when we took the cover off, I did smell a warm water chlorine smell but not over powering - I was thinking it needed to be shocked but the numbers don't indicate that I don't think. Water is still crystal clear)
Using MPS strips for use with our nature2:
MPS - high
Ak - 100
pH - 6.2
Using the regular strips:
FC - 3.0
Ak - 80
TH - 100
pH - 6.2
Using the Taylor K-2006 kit:
pH - 6.2
FC - 6.4 (likely the MPS is interfering and causing this high reading?)
CC - 0.2
AK - 80
CH - 100
CYA - 55
So the CYA is creeping up as is known to happen with the Dichlor and I need to think about adding the borates and going to bleach or dumping about 25% of the water according to pool math.
The pH had been 7.6 to start back in late December and it looks like it's just falling as I look at the records. I assume this is because of the net acidic level of the Replenish and Spa 56.
If we let the MPS level come down, will that push the pH back up a bit on its own? I splashed the water in my eyes, nothing burned. I also ran the jets about 10 minutes to see if that aeration raised the pH but it didn't do anything.
Don't want to do anything to get into wild swings of levels but what would you do?
thanks!
I was away for 3 weeks and my husband was managing the hot tub. Since it's been so windy here in the north east, he was only in a few times while I was gone because we sit in a big open field and any bad wind like that is brutal. He put in a 1 tbsp of Leisure time replenish after each dip (was was 3 in the last week). When we tested today we got the following numbers (note when we took the cover off, I did smell a warm water chlorine smell but not over powering - I was thinking it needed to be shocked but the numbers don't indicate that I don't think. Water is still crystal clear)
Using MPS strips for use with our nature2:
MPS - high
Ak - 100
pH - 6.2
Using the regular strips:
FC - 3.0
Ak - 80
TH - 100
pH - 6.2
Using the Taylor K-2006 kit:
pH - 6.2
FC - 6.4 (likely the MPS is interfering and causing this high reading?)
CC - 0.2
AK - 80
CH - 100
CYA - 55
So the CYA is creeping up as is known to happen with the Dichlor and I need to think about adding the borates and going to bleach or dumping about 25% of the water according to pool math.
The pH had been 7.6 to start back in late December and it looks like it's just falling as I look at the records. I assume this is because of the net acidic level of the Replenish and Spa 56.
If we let the MPS level come down, will that push the pH back up a bit on its own? I splashed the water in my eyes, nothing burned. I also ran the jets about 10 minutes to see if that aeration raised the pH but it didn't do anything.
Don't want to do anything to get into wild swings of levels but what would you do?
thanks!