Hello all - great community here! I've learned a ton reading in the past few weeks
New home owner, new pool owner. In ground, vinyl, sand filter and 30000 gallons. Located in Memphis TN and my pool does sit in the sun for majority of the afternoon. It has been unseasonably cool the past two days and should remain cooler for the next few days before heating up (mid 90s) next week.
I've done a pretty good job with maintaining a nice, swimmable pool in the short months i've been an owner. Succesfully fought off one pretty gnarly algae bloom and am coming off a nice stretch of pleasant, blue/clear water.
I finally got my Taylor 2006 test kit in the mail and did my first full test this afternoon
FC 8ppm
CC 0.6ppm
PH 7.6
TA 80ppm
CH 80ppm
CYA 60
Can someone give me a quick review of my numbers?
A few notes - I did add two gallons of liquid chlorine last night when my regular five-way crummy test kit suggested i add chlorine. This was also an attempt to try to get out in front of a color change (leaning towards going greenish hue as of yesterday). Also vacuumed to waste last night and backwashed as i normally do about once a week
I think (?) FC is right in range per the Chlorine/CYA chart.
On top of that - I leave for a 7 day vacation on Saturday morning and won't really have anybody to add chlorine or check water levels while i'm gone. I have two skimmers and a floor drain so i'm thinking (After reading numerous 'vacation' threads here) turning my skimmer valves down to allow the floor drain to do the work. With the hockey puck tabs in a floater/skimmers
Just wondering what my pre-vacation play should be in the days leading up to Saturday.
New home owner, new pool owner. In ground, vinyl, sand filter and 30000 gallons. Located in Memphis TN and my pool does sit in the sun for majority of the afternoon. It has been unseasonably cool the past two days and should remain cooler for the next few days before heating up (mid 90s) next week.
I've done a pretty good job with maintaining a nice, swimmable pool in the short months i've been an owner. Succesfully fought off one pretty gnarly algae bloom and am coming off a nice stretch of pleasant, blue/clear water.
I finally got my Taylor 2006 test kit in the mail and did my first full test this afternoon
FC 8ppm
CC 0.6ppm
PH 7.6
TA 80ppm
CH 80ppm
CYA 60
Can someone give me a quick review of my numbers?
A few notes - I did add two gallons of liquid chlorine last night when my regular five-way crummy test kit suggested i add chlorine. This was also an attempt to try to get out in front of a color change (leaning towards going greenish hue as of yesterday). Also vacuumed to waste last night and backwashed as i normally do about once a week
I think (?) FC is right in range per the Chlorine/CYA chart.
On top of that - I leave for a 7 day vacation on Saturday morning and won't really have anybody to add chlorine or check water levels while i'm gone. I have two skimmers and a floor drain so i'm thinking (After reading numerous 'vacation' threads here) turning my skimmer valves down to allow the floor drain to do the work. With the hockey puck tabs in a floater/skimmers
Just wondering what my pre-vacation play should be in the days leading up to Saturday.
