Question below, but first, a huge thank you to the incredible community here at TFP. We bought a house with a pool last summer. We somehow managed to survive half a season using pucks, not knowing that we needed to backwash our DE filter, and without a test kit or working filter pressure gauge. A few weeks ago, I found this website trying to figure out why I was getting dust at the bottom of my pool. Dead algae of course!
Thanks to you all, I have now brought my chlorine up to the right level for our high CYA, found the hidden algae colonies inside our light fixture, properly cleared out our filter, and acquired the simple tools and chemicals I need to feel superior to the snake oil salesman down at the pool store. Still need to replace water to get our CYA down to a more reasonable level, but otherwise, our pool is near perfect thanks to you.
The pool school articles and old forum posts have answered the thousand questions I've had to date, but I now have one where I have found conflicting advice on the site: how do I set my Hayward canister inline chlorinator now that I will only be using it on vacations or if my CYA ever actually gets low? I've seen some recommendations to set it to zero and some recommendations to set it to full. Intuitively, full seems better to avoid stagnant water in the canister, but I don't totally know how the circulation works through that piece of the plumbing. And in either case, do I need to do anything with the puck dregs and highly chlorinated water that are still in there?
Thank you!
Thanks to you all, I have now brought my chlorine up to the right level for our high CYA, found the hidden algae colonies inside our light fixture, properly cleared out our filter, and acquired the simple tools and chemicals I need to feel superior to the snake oil salesman down at the pool store. Still need to replace water to get our CYA down to a more reasonable level, but otherwise, our pool is near perfect thanks to you.
The pool school articles and old forum posts have answered the thousand questions I've had to date, but I now have one where I have found conflicting advice on the site: how do I set my Hayward canister inline chlorinator now that I will only be using it on vacations or if my CYA ever actually gets low? I've seen some recommendations to set it to zero and some recommendations to set it to full. Intuitively, full seems better to avoid stagnant water in the canister, but I don't totally know how the circulation works through that piece of the plumbing. And in either case, do I need to do anything with the puck dregs and highly chlorinated water that are still in there?
Thank you!
