Pool guy is scheduled to come tomorrow to do the technical part of closing, and I am balancing the water.
Last night I tested FC 18 and pH was over roof (purpler than 8.2). I was planning to add some muriatic acid today to lower the pH, then I realized it's probably a false reading due to high FC.
TA was 90, no concern here I guess.
CC was 0, so good here as well.
CYA is 0
My husband admit he added one gallon of liquid bleach a few days ago (he can't remember when, either Wednesday or Friday. Certainly not Thursday because it was raining all day and we didn't open the pool autocover at all on Thursday). SWG was running
I was sorta kinda neglecting the testing this past month (I was swimming daily, water was crystal clear and comfortable on skin).
During summer, I battled low pH (I was able to raise it some with aerating, no chemicals added) and I kept CYA in 20-30 (I know it is low, but as long as the FC was in reasonable range and water was perfect I didn't want to mess with my pH, as it figured it would go down again after adding acid).
SWG is off now and so is the heater. I will test again in few hours. If the FC is still high, what should I do? Since the night temperatures will be steadily under 32F starting tonight, I really don't want to delay the closing any further.
I should also add, we tend to open quite early, so I decided to skip algaecide as we won't get many (probably none) over 60F days from now to mid-April.
(I already posted this in 'closing' forum, but maybe this is more appropiate forum for my question. Admin please feel free to delete one of my double posts. Thanks.)
Last night I tested FC 18 and pH was over roof (purpler than 8.2). I was planning to add some muriatic acid today to lower the pH, then I realized it's probably a false reading due to high FC.
TA was 90, no concern here I guess.
CC was 0, so good here as well.
CYA is 0
My husband admit he added one gallon of liquid bleach a few days ago (he can't remember when, either Wednesday or Friday. Certainly not Thursday because it was raining all day and we didn't open the pool autocover at all on Thursday). SWG was running
I was sorta kinda neglecting the testing this past month (I was swimming daily, water was crystal clear and comfortable on skin).
During summer, I battled low pH (I was able to raise it some with aerating, no chemicals added) and I kept CYA in 20-30 (I know it is low, but as long as the FC was in reasonable range and water was perfect I didn't want to mess with my pH, as it figured it would go down again after adding acid).
SWG is off now and so is the heater. I will test again in few hours. If the FC is still high, what should I do? Since the night temperatures will be steadily under 32F starting tonight, I really don't want to delay the closing any further.
I should also add, we tend to open quite early, so I decided to skip algaecide as we won't get many (probably none) over 60F days from now to mid-April.
(I already posted this in 'closing' forum, but maybe this is more appropiate forum for my question. Admin please feel free to delete one of my double posts. Thanks.)