Hey Everyone -
Some of you may recall that while using a pool company to care for my pool I had a runaway alage problem about 18 months ago. After testing the water a 100% drain and refil was completed, a new SWG system from AutoPilot installed and everything seems to have been going great. We live in Phoenix, stopped using to pool due to excessive low temps and just started to use it again.
As a result, I just kept an eye on the pH and ORP over the winter, not really testing the pool. I started getting weird stains and started testing again. So today my son and I ran the complete battery of tests and this is what I came up with:
FC: 1.5
CC .4
pH 7.2
TA 30
CH 450
CYA 0 (tested this three times, completely zero)
Borate 15
Salt 2600
Temp 72 F
SWG ORP Reading: 680
So looking at this post, it looks like an FC of 1.5 with a CYN of 0 is fine, and using Jesse's Graphical Pool Testing XLS also shows that FC as "in the green". I just don't want to get down the road in summer and figure out that I was wrong this whole time.
Also, I also see that my pH is a bit low, my CH is high and my TA is low. Are these super critical and should I get them addressed now or wait until the pool is put into use? Which ones should I address first (if any) as I am sure fixing them might adjust others...
Thanks
Some of you may recall that while using a pool company to care for my pool I had a runaway alage problem about 18 months ago. After testing the water a 100% drain and refil was completed, a new SWG system from AutoPilot installed and everything seems to have been going great. We live in Phoenix, stopped using to pool due to excessive low temps and just started to use it again.
As a result, I just kept an eye on the pH and ORP over the winter, not really testing the pool. I started getting weird stains and started testing again. So today my son and I ran the complete battery of tests and this is what I came up with:
FC: 1.5
CC .4
pH 7.2
TA 30
CH 450
CYA 0 (tested this three times, completely zero)
Borate 15
Salt 2600
Temp 72 F
SWG ORP Reading: 680
So looking at this post, it looks like an FC of 1.5 with a CYN of 0 is fine, and using Jesse's Graphical Pool Testing XLS also shows that FC as "in the green". I just don't want to get down the road in summer and figure out that I was wrong this whole time.
Also, I also see that my pH is a bit low, my CH is high and my TA is low. Are these super critical and should I get them addressed now or wait until the pool is put into use? Which ones should I address first (if any) as I am sure fixing them might adjust others...
Thanks