Hey everyone, just moved into a house with an unground pool (20k gallons) and fortunately stumbled across this website trying to learn how to use it and balance it.
I have read a lot of the pool school articles but it’s a lot of information so trying to retain it all and use it all correctly and chronologically correct is taking some time.
I’m posting pretty much for a check in and to see if what I’m doing is accurate so far. Water currently is cloudy and has not been vacuumed, just brushed yesterday.
Pool opened last Tuesday 5/14
They really just pulled the cover and started the pump up and shocked it. No vacuuming or anything. Not sure if that’s typical or not.
Yesterday afternoon test numbers:
FC: .5 (added a little over half gallon of chlorinating liquid per pool math)
TC: .5
CC: 0
PH: 8.0 (added about 10 cups of muriatic acid per pool math)
Calcium hardness: 350 ish
TA: 114
CYA: 5 (added 4 lbs of stabilizer split between 2 socks hung in front of the returns)
Double checked the levels I adjusted this morning
FC: I THINK was 1.5-2 ( I will double check after work)
PH: 7.6
CYA: 30ish
Also backwashed sand filter Saturday evening because pressure seemed high. (30 psi)
Backwashed and it went to 25 Psi, the lady who lived there before me said it stayed around 25 or so.
Let me know what your thoughts are, thanks a lot!
I have read a lot of the pool school articles but it’s a lot of information so trying to retain it all and use it all correctly and chronologically correct is taking some time.
I’m posting pretty much for a check in and to see if what I’m doing is accurate so far. Water currently is cloudy and has not been vacuumed, just brushed yesterday.
Pool opened last Tuesday 5/14
They really just pulled the cover and started the pump up and shocked it. No vacuuming or anything. Not sure if that’s typical or not.
Yesterday afternoon test numbers:
FC: .5 (added a little over half gallon of chlorinating liquid per pool math)
TC: .5
CC: 0
PH: 8.0 (added about 10 cups of muriatic acid per pool math)
Calcium hardness: 350 ish
TA: 114
CYA: 5 (added 4 lbs of stabilizer split between 2 socks hung in front of the returns)
Double checked the levels I adjusted this morning
FC: I THINK was 1.5-2 ( I will double check after work)
PH: 7.6
CYA: 30ish
Also backwashed sand filter Saturday evening because pressure seemed high. (30 psi)
Backwashed and it went to 25 Psi, the lady who lived there before me said it stayed around 25 or so.
Let me know what your thoughts are, thanks a lot!