Hi all! I found this website last year, and it helped me get started with pool maintenance. Thank you so much! When I first bought my house (last august), we had a flood and didn't move in until December. Swam most of summer and maintained well. In December, a pool guy came by and taught me about filter cleaning, maintenance and helped me get pool really cleaned up for winter non-use.
Fast forward to now, water is testing as below:
FAC: 1 ppm
TAC: 1 PPM
Calcium Hardness: 400
CYA: 90
TA: 120
pH: 7.7
TDS: 2300
Pho: 1000
Background and my plan of action so far:
Pool water is sitting about 5" low. Going to add more tomorrow morning while getting ready for work.
Tonight, going to add some chlorine. I have some liquid (13% I believe) and a couple left over bags of power powder plus from Leslie's (i'm sorry I know that is a sacrilegious term ). I was thinking to add one bag of the powder.
After that I'm kind of stumped about what to tackle first? I want to bring the TA and TDS down, and CYA. I am hoping that adding more water helps with TA and TDS. What would you all suggest about what my next steps should be? I'm concerned that adding chlorine and/or acid to bring PH down more will increase my TDS and bring TA up...
Fast forward to now, water is testing as below:
FAC: 1 ppm
TAC: 1 PPM
Calcium Hardness: 400
CYA: 90
TA: 120
pH: 7.7
TDS: 2300
Pho: 1000
Background and my plan of action so far:
Pool water is sitting about 5" low. Going to add more tomorrow morning while getting ready for work.
Tonight, going to add some chlorine. I have some liquid (13% I believe) and a couple left over bags of power powder plus from Leslie's (i'm sorry I know that is a sacrilegious term ). I was thinking to add one bag of the powder.
After that I'm kind of stumped about what to tackle first? I want to bring the TA and TDS down, and CYA. I am hoping that adding more water helps with TA and TDS. What would you all suggest about what my next steps should be? I'm concerned that adding chlorine and/or acid to bring PH down more will increase my TDS and bring TA up...