CYA Shortage?

[muffin_dad]

No CYA in the stores around me (Dallas, TX area). Is there a shortage in other places as well?

 

[Texas Splash]

Hit & miss here around San Antonio in my favorite stores. They seem to have plenty of it when I don't need it.

 

[ajw22]

Nope, how many 8lb bags do you want sent to you?

Regal Pool Stablizer/CYA

• ajw22
• Jan 29, 2019

 

[reggiehammond]

Available on Amazon for next day delivery…

 

[BowserB]

Available on Amazon for next day delivery…

That depends on which you order. I ordered Clorox brand week before last on my Amazon Prime account, and latest estimate is a shipping date mid September.

 

[markayash]

I found some at Walmart by using the stores near by option. That store only had 3 2 weeks ago

 

[reggiehammond]

I’ve used the Pool Mate brand with good success; that’s what I’m seeing as available for next day delivery. Clorox brand pool products are fairly iffy and almost always over-priced, in my experience.

 

[Lilypad]

Try Ace Hardware...not cheap, but they have it. Shows the one in Richardson does and
Lakewood is getting some tomorrow. Carrollton also has stock.

 

[an1vrsy]

…Is there a shortage in other places as well?

Yes… I searched high and low in Las Vegas. Leslie’s had stock, but I did not want to buy the highly overpriced Leslie‘s brand. I ended up finding some at Lowe’s. Fortunately, for me, someone hid two 5 lbs bags behind the pH Up. I don’t know why I moved the pH Up but I grabbed those two bags.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

You can always use trichlor pucks or dichlor “shock” if you want to add stabilizer (assuming you can that at a good price).

 

[an1vrsy]

I was actually considering dropping in a floater with 3” pucks because with the extremely high evaporation here in Las Vegas and constantly adding water I have a lot of dilution with my CYA.

 

[mknauss]

extremely high evaporation here in Las Vegas and constantly adding water I have a lot of dilution with my CYA.

Evaporation and adding water for that does not effect CYA level.

High water temperatures accentuates CYA loss a small amount. You might see 10% per month at 90F water temperature.

 

[an1vrsy]

My water doesn’t get above 87 degrees with the chiller. But you know more about water chemistry than I do. I attributed my CYA loss and salt ppm loss to the 500 plus gallons I add everyday.

 

[bioguy]

So you're losing 500 gallons of water each day to evaporation, but salt does not evaporate and cyanuric acid shouldn't either. If you just add the 500 gallons of water back in, the salt can CYA concentrations should be the same.

 

[texasAUtiger]

It’s scarce around here in central TX as well. I ordered some Puri-Tech off Amazon for half what the pool store was charging. Same with calcium hardness increased.

Muriatic acid can be found in some stores here, but LC is very scarce.

 

[markayash]

My water doesn’t get above 87 degrees with the chiller. But you know more about water chemistry than I do. I attributed my CYA loss and salt ppm loss to the 500 plus gallons I add everyday.

Sure you don’t have a leak? I had that problem with salt dropping and just found out my pump has been leaking for a while. Had pine straw around it and rained a lot so I didn’t notice it until the bearing staring getting louder.