My buddy bought a house and it has a pool. He had a pool inspection done on my advice prior to purchase and nothing came up that he told me. Headed over today. From the few pictures i've seen it doesn't appear to have a cell.
Update:
So went and checked it out and gave him my test kit as I have a new one showing up Monday. As I expected the CYA tested off the chart. I did it three times to confirm and it was almost completely clouded out after only a couple 'squirts'. The attached picture was the lowest test and its halfway to 100 from the bottom. The owner left a log of the pool service he had been using ($130 a month) and it was serviced last 2 weeks ago. There was a couple small chunks in the floater but the sample didn't even turn color when adding the powder for FC drop test.
FC: 0
PH: 8
CYA: High
CH: 750
The sand filter was replaced new in 2023.
The pump didn't have receipt for replacement so I'm guessing it might be original?
The heater is broken and was deemed not repairable by the pool inspector.
The pool was drained and had a bunch of work done in 2017 for re-pebble and tile and new plumbing to include autofill
We estimated at about 15,000 gallons off quick measurements but he's going to confirm depth and better measurements tonight.
The auto was running the constantly the couple hours I was there. It was 30mph winds and in direct 95 degree sun all day but mine doesn't do that in the same conditions. Told him to get a bucket and showed him how to shut off auto fill and do bucket test.
I've never had to deal with algae so don't know for sure what it is but the returns all had orangish brown below them that could be brushed off. I'd assume it's been at 0 FC for quite a while. Pictures are in next post.
So it's looking like a minimum of 50-60% water exchange to get CYA down?
Does the spa get water through autofill or does the valve have to be open to the return jets to keep the level up?
Update:
So went and checked it out and gave him my test kit as I have a new one showing up Monday. As I expected the CYA tested off the chart. I did it three times to confirm and it was almost completely clouded out after only a couple 'squirts'. The attached picture was the lowest test and its halfway to 100 from the bottom. The owner left a log of the pool service he had been using ($130 a month) and it was serviced last 2 weeks ago. There was a couple small chunks in the floater but the sample didn't even turn color when adding the powder for FC drop test.
FC: 0
PH: 8
CYA: High
CH: 750
The sand filter was replaced new in 2023.
The pump didn't have receipt for replacement so I'm guessing it might be original?
The heater is broken and was deemed not repairable by the pool inspector.
The pool was drained and had a bunch of work done in 2017 for re-pebble and tile and new plumbing to include autofill
We estimated at about 15,000 gallons off quick measurements but he's going to confirm depth and better measurements tonight.
The auto was running the constantly the couple hours I was there. It was 30mph winds and in direct 95 degree sun all day but mine doesn't do that in the same conditions. Told him to get a bucket and showed him how to shut off auto fill and do bucket test.
I've never had to deal with algae so don't know for sure what it is but the returns all had orangish brown below them that could be brushed off. I'd assume it's been at 0 FC for quite a while. Pictures are in next post.
So it's looking like a minimum of 50-60% water exchange to get CYA down?
Does the spa get water through autofill or does the valve have to be open to the return jets to keep the level up?
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. I’m excited to see what the condition of everything is.
