What does it mean if the solution turns red after adding the R008? Isnt it supposed to turn green? The Ph is less than 6.8. This is for a friends pool. Never encountered that before
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This means his pH is critical low. There is Zero TA. The pH needs to come up immediately. I would begin adding Soda Ash (washing soda) NOT baking soda until you reach a mid 7 pH. What kind of pool is this?
Its an IG. I have to measure for gallons. I have the soda ash. The cover just came off
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Ok, we can help figure it out with some dimensions if you need it. Covered you say? I'm really wondering what happened then. Better Vinyl than plaster, but I have no idea how much that hurts vinyl or not. Obviously not good for a plaster pool.
If you start out adding baking soda your TA usually ends up too high by the time you get everything back under control.
And because the low pH is what does the damage. If you get the pH in range, some TA will come with it, and you can tweak it later.
Think of pH as the main tuning knob and TA as the fine-tuning knob. You first want to go to the right channel (adjust pH to recommended levels - mid-7's) and then bring the picture of the selected channel into sharper focus (adjust TA to the point where pH stays relatively stable within the recommended range).
I can tell u he was dump chlorine in last season and as long as the water was clear that was it. I'm teaching him the TFP method
Keep us posted, I'm really curious how this goes. Good luck with your friend, maybe you can bring him around.
As of now he put in 55oz of soda ash and then 5lbs of ph +. He did test using the drop test phenol red and its showing yellow. I'm suspecting his chlorine is too high still. It came out to about 20,000 gallons roughly.
Measuring the TA is a good way to get a sense of how far you still have to go. If the PH is being raised with soda ash and PH +, the PH should start being measurable at roughly the time the TA gets up to 70.
so far he has put in 55 ounces of soda ash, 5 pounds of Ph+ and four pounds of borax. he is telling me Itis still yellow, is that possible? maybe he got a bad batch of droppers
The worst ta that I have seen was about -200. That means that, just to get to zero, I had to raise the ta by 200. If it turns red immediately, the ta is zero, or even less than zero. Therefore, yes, it can take quite a bit of bicarb or ph increaser to get a reading on ta and ph. It took over 100 lbs of bicarb just to get a good ta.
Do you have the T100 or k-2006?
Do you have the T100 or k-2006?
I do, but he has to buy one. Told him he can't wing it with a pool. I just ordered refills for my T100. I'm doing the pool math according to his drop test pics. Trying to get Ph to turn peach atleast.
The good news is that the TFP method had my pool ready to go in 3 days!
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