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Loving the color! That looks awesome!

Just so you remember that the color will change for a couple/few weeks. It is normal to see a little green in the beginning as the water gets balanced. Make sure to brush often. Watch the PH. As the plaster cures it pushed the PH up fast.

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Well it's green and it doesn't seem to be clearing up. Any help anyone can offer would be appreciated.

Latest test results
PH 7.5
FC 4.5
CC 0
CH 150
TA 300
CYA 30

The PB says this is metals not algae causing the color but it's more than a little green. Guess I'm just looking for reassurance.














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Take a sample to a pool store and ask them for a metals test. This is about the only time we ever recommend them to test anything.

Did the PB put any algaecide in the water? Some cheaper types contain copper, but your color just doesn't look quite so obvious as metals to me, so I dunno?

Your numbers look ok except that high TA which you can deal with with MA. You could up the FC a bit so you know you won't drop below minimum and see if it helps?
 
When you brush the pool what happens?

Is it the same color all the way down to the bottom? Does it get cloudy the further down it goes?

We will get you fixed up but have some "work" to do to figure it out.

Kim
 
It's the same color all the way down. When I brush there is a brownish dust that I assumed was plaster dust colored by the water. I took a sample of our well water to the pool store before we filled and it read zero on metals (post 28 of this thread). I took a sample of the pool water over and it reads .3ppm of each Cu and Iron. The test they are using is just a strip so I'm less than certain it is accurate. Does anyone make a home titration type test for iron and copper? The PB added a bottle of some type of sequestrant on startup (10/2) and I added two bottles of metal free (they didn't have Jacks at the pool store) which is a chelating agent on the third but as you can see from the pictures there has been little to no change over the days since. I have the Jacks in order from Amazon but I don't really want to create a chemical soup by guessing so I'm asking here before I do anything else to it.


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Do you have a mineral cartridge in your chlorinator? Premier Pools built my pool also and it has a Jandy Nature 2 Fusion chlorinator. If you have metals thats where it could be coming from. It comes with a 30 day trial cartridge in it. I left mine in for the first month but when it came time to replace it I took a hack saw to it and cut off the part with the metal beads.
 
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Do you have a mineral cartridge in your chlorinator? Premier Pools built my pool also and it has a Jandy Nature 2 Fusion chlorinator. If you have metals thats where it could be coming from. It comes with a 30 day trial cartridge in it. I left mine in for the first month but when it came time to replace it I took a hack saw to it and cut off the part with the metal beads.
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That's exactly what I have. Not sure what it does. I wasn't ever planning on replacing it.


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Pwrgeek said:
It's the same color all the way down. When I brush there is a brownish dust that I assumed was plaster dust colored by the water. I took a sample of our well water to the pool store before we filled and it read zero on metals (post 28 of this thread). I took a sample of the pool water over and it reads .3ppm of each Cu and Iron. The test they are using is just a strip so I'm less than certain it is accurate. Does anyone make a home titration type test for iron and copper? The PB added a bottle of some type of sequestrant on startup (10/2) and I added two bottles of metal free (they didn't have Jacks at the pool store) which is a chelating agent on the third but as you can see from the pictures there has been little to no change over the days since. I have the Jacks in order from Amazon but I don't really want to create a chemical soup by guessing so I'm asking here before I do anything else to it.


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The water that tested .3 was on 10/3


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I know your concentration is on the water issue at this point and I'm confident that will get resolved shortly. If you don't mind I have a different question. I noticed along the edge of the shallow pad area to the left of the grotto there is a line of dark colored dots in the plaster. They also travel along the edge of the deeper shelf below the grotto travelling over toward the slide. Can you explain what they are and why they're there? is it just decoration helping to identify the edge?
 
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I know your concentration is on the water issue at this point and I'm confident that will get resolved shortly. If you don't mind I have a different question. I noticed along the edge of the shallow pad area to the left of the grotto there is a line of dark colored dots in the plaster. They also travel along the edge of the deeper shelf below the grotto travelling over toward the slide. Can you explain what they are and why they're there? is it just decoration helping to identify the edge?
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Those are marker tiles. They identify the edge so you don't fall off accidentally. Some people here really like to bling them out. Denise (nursenini) comes to mind but there are many others. We decided to go plain as an offset to our light colored and blingy (lots of shells) plaster.


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