First post here, so be gentle....I’ve read all of pool school and I’m getting fairly comfortable with my TF-100 test kit. This is a fairly new pool (completed Sep 2020) and we are first time pool owners.
Recently switched to TFP, due to the issues we were having keeping chlorine in the pool. We are surrounded by numerous large trees and leaves are CONSTANTLY falling into the pool. Pool store claimed that we had nitrates and phosphates from the leaves that were eating the chlorine.
Their advice was to shock the pool (which we did several days in a row on their advice). After about the 5th trip of being advised to try something different (this time, a weekly algaecide and phosphate remover), we decided to try TFP.
We’ve passed an OCLT and the water has never looked better, but I keep getting what I think are artificially high measurements on the chlorine drop test. When I go to add the R-0871, it SHOOTS out of the bottle, sometimes dropping 3 drops at a time. The flow is very hard to control, and the drops seem like they are “smaller”? When I compare (I know, I know) to two different brands of test strips or even the Taylor daily test, it is WAY OFF. See numbers below:
FC: 13 (from drop test)
FC: 5 (from strips or Taylor)
CC: 0
PH: 7.6
TA: 80
CH: 625
CYA: 50
Recently switched to TFP, due to the issues we were having keeping chlorine in the pool. We are surrounded by numerous large trees and leaves are CONSTANTLY falling into the pool. Pool store claimed that we had nitrates and phosphates from the leaves that were eating the chlorine.
Their advice was to shock the pool (which we did several days in a row on their advice). After about the 5th trip of being advised to try something different (this time, a weekly algaecide and phosphate remover), we decided to try TFP.
We’ve passed an OCLT and the water has never looked better, but I keep getting what I think are artificially high measurements on the chlorine drop test. When I go to add the R-0871, it SHOOTS out of the bottle, sometimes dropping 3 drops at a time. The flow is very hard to control, and the drops seem like they are “smaller”? When I compare (I know, I know) to two different brands of test strips or even the Taylor daily test, it is WAY OFF. See numbers below:
FC: 13 (from drop test)
FC: 5 (from strips or Taylor)
CC: 0
PH: 7.6
TA: 80
CH: 625
CYA: 50
