Howdy everyone...first post so making it good, I think. Just took over doing pool myself, so before I start throwing things at it and making things worse, I welcome your thoughts.
I am likely going to SWG (Circupool 45) in a month, just need to do a little more research that it will work as expected with conditions and chemical balance of pool. As unreliable as test strips can be (which is why I got the TF-100 to be sure), I have used for 6weeks and results have been in ballpark consistenly.
First results tonight with comments:
Background/TMI - after 2years, old pool guy in rural area south of SA sold his business and new one (that is just learning pools from the old guy) went up in price...so am doing it on my own. We live next to a field and gets lots of dust/sand, but little organics as we are clear of the Oak pollen/leaves until next March-April (which is brutal, have a cover to mitigate next year).
Note with new pool guy, have had some algea for first time (intermittently ever 1-2 weeks) the past 8weeks, but pool guy cleared it up quickly by shocking it a couple of times (and putting in some algeacide i am guessing). It has looked fantastic otherwise (especially after using Pentair 920 first time this weekend, woohoo!!). Though as mentioned above, possible black algae that only comes off with scrubbing with brush.
I am likely going to SWG (Circupool 45) in a month, just need to do a little more research that it will work as expected with conditions and chemical balance of pool. As unreliable as test strips can be (which is why I got the TF-100 to be sure), I have used for 6weeks and results have been in ballpark consistenly.
First results tonight with comments:
- Chlorine - 0 to 0.5 (via K-1000 is crystal clear). I figure it has 'something' in it with 2 Trichlor pucks in floater for past couple of weeks and pool is clear (except for possible 20 spots of black algae that's been there for 2 weeks).
- PH - 7.8
- Free Chlorine=- going with 0.5 (didn't notice pink after 0870, but after 1-2 drops of 0871, it seemed back to crystal clear)
- CC = going with 0.5 again (didn't notice pink, until put I 1-2 drops of 0871 and seemed slight change back to clear)
- Total Chlorine = 1 (by adding Free Chlorine & CC, am i doing this righ, ha)
- Calcium - 650 (was light blue with floating blue bubbles still present)
- Alkalinity - 70
- CYA - less than 20 (going with 10 as has to have 'something' as pool guy has used trichlor for 2years). After 5-6 trys, the dot was always there, even at a 'glance' after reading several posts about the elusiveness of the test. See next paragraph.
- On CYA, I will test again tomorrow with back to sunlight/etc/etc, but assuming above is correct it appears CYA is very low (even after pool guy using Trichlor for 2yrs???). So seems adding Stabilizer to get to 20, then continuing to use Trichlor for a month or two isn't going to hurt (I have new 50lb bucket). Plus SWG requires higher CYA amount anyway. Getting liquid chlorine will be a pain here and look to cost $100-200 shipped for a month, again seems i can get by with Trichlor until then.
Background/TMI - after 2years, old pool guy in rural area south of SA sold his business and new one (that is just learning pools from the old guy) went up in price...so am doing it on my own. We live next to a field and gets lots of dust/sand, but little organics as we are clear of the Oak pollen/leaves until next March-April (which is brutal, have a cover to mitigate next year).
Note with new pool guy, have had some algea for first time (intermittently ever 1-2 weeks) the past 8weeks, but pool guy cleared it up quickly by shocking it a couple of times (and putting in some algeacide i am guessing). It has looked fantastic otherwise (especially after using Pentair 920 first time this weekend, woohoo!!). Though as mentioned above, possible black algae that only comes off with scrubbing with brush.
But first things first:
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