Hello all
This past Wednesday my numbers looked like this: ph 8.0, FC 6, CH 225, TA 70, and CYA 50.
I ran errands this morning and stopped by Leslie's to corroborate my numbers simply because I wanted to. I've gone in the past, and their numbers have matched my test results.
I was told that my cya is at 0. Yup. I questioned it and he explained that his graduated cylinder only goes to 30, and he can still see the dot. So I backed off, got chlorine and left. Back at home, I saw that I had stabilizer, and I poured it into a bucket to dissolve. Remembering the mantra of TFP and trusting my TFP gut, I tested the water for cya, and it was near 90. Obviously my result was as wrong as the store's, so I retested and got near 80. At that point I remembered that you can't take cya out without draining the pool, so I did not add the conditioner to the pool.
Between Wednesday and today I did not add anything other than 2 pucks to the in line chlorinator.
1. Is it truly possible to go from Wednesday's 50 to either zero or 90 today? From only 3 pucks?
2. To not waste the stabilizer that I poured into the bucket of water, I drained the water as best as possible and put the slushy mix in a container. Will that harden to become unusable? Or will I be able to use it in the future? It sat in the bucket of water 5 minutes or so.
Thank you
This past Wednesday my numbers looked like this: ph 8.0, FC 6, CH 225, TA 70, and CYA 50.
I ran errands this morning and stopped by Leslie's to corroborate my numbers simply because I wanted to. I've gone in the past, and their numbers have matched my test results.
I was told that my cya is at 0. Yup. I questioned it and he explained that his graduated cylinder only goes to 30, and he can still see the dot. So I backed off, got chlorine and left. Back at home, I saw that I had stabilizer, and I poured it into a bucket to dissolve. Remembering the mantra of TFP and trusting my TFP gut, I tested the water for cya, and it was near 90. Obviously my result was as wrong as the store's, so I retested and got near 80. At that point I remembered that you can't take cya out without draining the pool, so I did not add the conditioner to the pool.
Between Wednesday and today I did not add anything other than 2 pucks to the in line chlorinator.
1. Is it truly possible to go from Wednesday's 50 to either zero or 90 today? From only 3 pucks?
2. To not waste the stabilizer that I poured into the bucket of water, I drained the water as best as possible and put the slushy mix in a container. Will that harden to become unusable? Or will I be able to use it in the future? It sat in the bucket of water 5 minutes or so.
Thank you
