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wireform said:
On your salt issue you added 3450 ppm salt. Now you say it's 6000 which means you had to begin with 2450 ppm. In essence you would have only needed 5 bags to bring it to 3500ppm
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Should I be concerned about this salt level? I'm going to give it a day or two and retest I guess. I don't understand how it could be so high either. The pool never recieved salt until these 17 bags. I'm also not so sure the pool company knows how many bags they put in. It was two teenage boys.
 
Barber, Perhaps the test isn't working but somehow I have my doubts it's wrong. You had salt in the water before these bags either from the PB last year and from chlorine products which leave salt behind. I can't see how your SWCG will like the upper limit and some turn off when the salt is too high so not to damage the cell.
 
wireform said:
Barber, Perhaps the test isn't working but somehow I have my doubts it's wrong. You had salt in the water before these bags either from the PB last year and from chlorine products which leave salt behind. I can't see how your SWCG will like the upper limit and some turn off when the salt is too high so not to damage the cell.
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I'm starting to think thats probably the case too. These dodo's didn't test anything before they started adding salt. I thought all my lights were green as good on the SWCG, but I just went a looked and saw that blinking green means high salt. I guess it's still making chlorine since chlorine levels seem good. I'm thinking I need to get the salt closer to the correct level before I continue adding chemicals to raise my CYA and TA. The only way to lower salt is remove water and replace correct?
 
If in fact it's that high then a drain and refill are in order. I might do that now before doing anything else and spare your chemicals and $$. Draining 13500 gallons will put you in the ballpark. Not sure about water table in your area but you may have to do an exchange to be on the safe side.
 
The Intellichlor will work at the high salinity. But, it is not wise to have above 4500 ppm for an extended time for all your equipment. So replacing some water would be advisable. I do not know about your precipitation chances, but if you can use runoff from your roof to replace some water, that will work. You would drain down multiple inches before the rain. If you did not get enough rain, you would top up with tap water. Will take more water to do it that way.
 
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I do not have a way to use roof runoff and we aren't supposed to recieve much rain after today unfortunately. I am on a well though, so getting water isn't really an issue, just takes time. I'm thinking I should contact the pool store and get them involved. After all, they were supposed to get my initial salt level correct and it looks like they botched it. Maybe they can get a water truck out.

Thanks for the feedback.
 
wireform said:
If in fact it's that high then a drain and refill are in order. I might do that now before doing anything else and spare your chemicals and $$. Draining 13500 gallons will put you in the ballpark. Not sure about water table in your area but you may have to do an exchange to be on the safe side.
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@Cbarber623 This is a legitimate concern based on where you are in Lexington. If you are over on the clay side (think Corley Mill) you may be okay. If you are on the sandy side (think Oak Grove) the water table is nearly always high there and artesian springs are numerous. I lived in the latter for 15 years and PBs would not touch an in-ground build on my property.
 
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IMissNimoy said:
@Cbarber623 This is a legitimate concern based on where you are in Lexington. If you are over on the clay side (think Corley Mill) you may be okay. If you are on the sandy side (think Oak Grove) the water table is nearly always high there and artesian springs are numerous. I lived in the latter for 15 years and PBs would not touch an in-ground build on my property.
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I am right off of Mineral Springs and dug a basement so it's certainly all clay. We have great pressure with the well. We filled the pool up in about 5 days. I'm really thinking the the pool company probably put salt in the pool when they installed it and then salted it again a couple of weeks ago. I'm going to make them fix this. They can get a water truck out here.
 
Cbarber623 said:
I am right off of Mineral Springs and dug a basement so it's certainly all clay. We have great pressure with the well. We filled the pool up in about 5 days. I'm really thinking the the pool company probably put salt in the pool when they installed it and then salted it again a couple of weeks ago. I'm going to make them fix this. They can get a water truck out here.
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I recall now there is some heavy clay on the Lexington end of Mineral Springs. I lived ON Mineral Springs, between Oak and Jessamine. I had a ~2 acre spring fed pond. All sand in that area. I miss it out there but don't miss the traffic!
 

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Cbarber623 said:
I am right off of Mineral Springs and dug a basement so it's certainly all clay. We have great pressure with the well. We filled the pool up in about 5 days. I'm really thinking the the pool company probably put salt in the pool when they installed it and then salted it again a couple of weeks ago. I'm going to make them fix this. They can get a water truck out here.
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I know exactly where you are talking about. We do like this area. I am much closer to Hwy 378, right near 12 mile creek.

I am confused what the soil and water table would have to do with the high level of salt though? Can you elaborate on that?
 
Nothing to do with salt. @wireform is concerned if you drain your pool and the water table is high, it could pop the shell out of the ground. If you do a drain rather than water transfer, it may be wise to get the PB to do it.
 
As the OP has a vinyl liner pool, it is more due to floating the liner if you drain water. Wrinkles and other issues can occur if the liner floats.
 
Should I be concerned that I am seeing a little bit of greenish looking build up in some of the corners of the pool or am I being too picky? It wipes or brushes off pretty easily, a bit of a pain in the corners. Water looks nice and clear and my test results seem to be within acceptable levels. I am currently running the SWG at 60% and pump is running for 12 hrs per day. Should I maybe look to increase either/both of these? It's getting pretty hot here in Columbia, SC. Water temps are getting over 90 degrees in the middle of the day. Hope everyone is having a nice Summer.

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You are only adding 2 ppm FC per day with those SWCG settings. You might consider increasing the SWCG generation to 3 ppm FC per day and see if you can hold a higher FC than what your Poolmath logs show. You are riding minimum FC based on that data.
 
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You are only adding 2 ppm FC per day with those SWCG settings. You might consider increasing the SWCG generation to 3 ppm FC per day and see if you can hold a higher FC than what your Poolmath logs show. You are riding minimum FC based on that data.
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Thank you for the reply mknauss, I was thinking I may need to up the Chlorine output. Is there a formula that I am missing on calcluating the SWCG output? How do you know it's currently production 2 ppm and how do I know what increase will make it three?
 
Use your Poolmath. Effects of Adding Chemicals. Touch the Hamburger menu on the upper left. Select Effects ...
Upping your % generation to 80% will bring your FC generation to 2.9 ppm per day.
 

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