I have done my best to search for the answer but I haven't found it yet.
I work at a pool as a head guard and I manage a pool (120k gallon) and a spa (1500 gallon).
The pool has been extremely easy to manage, very few fluctuations.
*This is indoor facility in Texas, and cyanuric indoors is explicitly against health code.
But the problem is the spa. It has fairly high traffic but the aeration is on anywhere from 60% to 90+% of the time I'm here (5pm-9pm). The pH skyrockets if I add enough bicarb to reach even 60 TA.
Outside of checking on it more often what should be done as a buffer? I work about every other night and no one else manages the TA and most days the TA is ~20 when I start my shift. I'm worried about the plaster.
I want to try to keep the TA at 40-60 but its so unstable at that range I can't keep it there. We have an ORP sensor so as soon as the pH rises (and the pH probe needs calibration) the FC just explodes upwards.
1 Would borax help much?
2 What should I attempt to keep the TA at?
3 What should I try to keep the pH at? (for the saturation index and FC needs, 2-8)
4 What should be done about the CC, at the end of the night it seems to usually be 1.0-1.5
Using a Taylor k-2006 test kit.
I work at a pool as a head guard and I manage a pool (120k gallon) and a spa (1500 gallon).
The pool has been extremely easy to manage, very few fluctuations.
*This is indoor facility in Texas, and cyanuric indoors is explicitly against health code.
But the problem is the spa. It has fairly high traffic but the aeration is on anywhere from 60% to 90+% of the time I'm here (5pm-9pm). The pH skyrockets if I add enough bicarb to reach even 60 TA.
Outside of checking on it more often what should be done as a buffer? I work about every other night and no one else manages the TA and most days the TA is ~20 when I start my shift. I'm worried about the plaster.
I want to try to keep the TA at 40-60 but its so unstable at that range I can't keep it there. We have an ORP sensor so as soon as the pH rises (and the pH probe needs calibration) the FC just explodes upwards.
1 Would borax help much?
2 What should I attempt to keep the TA at?
3 What should I try to keep the pH at? (for the saturation index and FC needs, 2-8)
4 What should be done about the CC, at the end of the night it seems to usually be 1.0-1.5
Using a Taylor k-2006 test kit.
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