I refilled my pool last summer, dumped in two full bottles of dichlor from home depot (by my calculations, I have around a 20k gallon pool, via poolmath calculator).
I had issues with my CYA test last year. When testing my dad's pool or my old water CYA was through the roof and it was super cloudy. But last year when refilling the new pool and using the dichlor I couldn't get the dot to disappear at all. Okay, maybe my calculations were wrong so I go and buy the 50 cya from tftestkits and same thing, it's sort of cloudy but I could barely make out the dot on the Taylor kit 2006.
Well, I was in Europe and pump stopped working and had a monster swamp. My pool friend came over and before I could say anything he dump a ton of trichlor in the pool. I wanted to yell stop but who am I, gonna tell a pool guy he doesn't know what he's doing. So I figure, CYA must be through the roof. So I go to test the CYA and it's zero. No cloud. Water is crystal clear. Shook it vigorously. Clear.
I bought my Taylor 2006 kit back in the summer of 2015. I don't think the CYA reagent would go bad that fast? The kit is so old I'm thinking of scrapping it and just getting a new kit. Maybe my Taylor black dot is extra black or something (yes I did the test with the sun behind my back).
Other than the CYA reagent being bad, what else could it be? I doubt the algae ate the CYA, could it? It was a swamp for a week or two.
EDIT: Or can I just buy the reagent refill? I guess I don't need to buy a whole new kit. I'll order that now. What other agents do you think I should replace? It'll be 2 years this summer.
I had issues with my CYA test last year. When testing my dad's pool or my old water CYA was through the roof and it was super cloudy. But last year when refilling the new pool and using the dichlor I couldn't get the dot to disappear at all. Okay, maybe my calculations were wrong so I go and buy the 50 cya from tftestkits and same thing, it's sort of cloudy but I could barely make out the dot on the Taylor kit 2006.
Well, I was in Europe and pump stopped working and had a monster swamp. My pool friend came over and before I could say anything he dump a ton of trichlor in the pool. I wanted to yell stop but who am I, gonna tell a pool guy he doesn't know what he's doing. So I figure, CYA must be through the roof. So I go to test the CYA and it's zero. No cloud. Water is crystal clear. Shook it vigorously. Clear.
I bought my Taylor 2006 kit back in the summer of 2015. I don't think the CYA reagent would go bad that fast? The kit is so old I'm thinking of scrapping it and just getting a new kit. Maybe my Taylor black dot is extra black or something (yes I did the test with the sun behind my back).
Other than the CYA reagent being bad, what else could it be? I doubt the algae ate the CYA, could it? It was a swamp for a week or two.
EDIT: Or can I just buy the reagent refill? I guess I don't need to buy a whole new kit. I'll order that now. What other agents do you think I should replace? It'll be 2 years this summer.