Happy New Year All!! QQ, how long do you really need to wait to add calcium hardness after alkalinity up? Appreciate you all as always!
Alkalinity up & Calcium Hardness
- Thread starter Jtr270
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I am perhaps not sure what you are asking.......Alk up (baking soda) is completely unrelated to Calcium Hardness.
You can add them to your pool one after the other with no delay.
You can add them to your pool one after the other with no delay.
- Feb 6, 2015
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- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
No waiting necessary.
Alkalinity Up is just overpriced baking soda.
What is the reason to increase your TA and CH?
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Alkalinity Up is just overpriced baking soda.
What is the reason to increase your TA and CH?
Post a full set of current test results from one of the recommended test kits. Test Kits Compared
Noted and thank you very much. Newbie here and it will be baking soda from here on out.
If your TA (Alkalinity) is at least 50ppm there’s no reason to raise it higher unless your exclusively using trichlor tablets for chlorine.
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I would personally wait a day between these two as neither TA nor CH will harm you in the short term. They are both long term concerns, so why risk adverse affects ?
A downfall of TFP is that once folks grasp the basics they are empowered to go buck wild, because they know how. Newbs go from timid to
And sometimes they try to do too much at once.
Baking soda and calcium joined forces against me
Hi all, I have some new stains on the floor of the deep end of my pebble-tec pool. I thought they were created just because I waited a couple minutes before sweeping away the baking soda I had added before adding calcium chloride. But reading through other threads, I wonder now if I added the...
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I would personally wait a day between these two as neither TA nor CH will harm you in the short term. They are both long term concerns, so why risk adverse affects ?
A downfall of TFP is that once folks grasp the basics they are empowered to go buck wild, because they know how. Newbs go from timid to
And sometimes they try to do too much at once.
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How many times has this reaction with baking soda and CaCl been reported? This one time by m100psi is all I remember and I don't think it that was m100psi's issue to begin with.
I suggest we keep our procedures as simple as possible.
I suggest we keep our procedures as simple as possible.
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