I'm about to take over the care of my Pool chemicals from the Pool Builder.
Pool, is Gunite, and about 20200 Gallons, finished and first filled in Mid January 2018.
It isn't a Salt Water Pool
To be honest the Pool Builder has been great, but the weekly Pool Guy has been pretty useless at balancing the chemicals.
For the most part, he came in once a week and threw in a few chlorinating a Tablets, or more recently (in the last three weeks) he would put in a 1/2 or full gallon of Liquid Chlorine.
which has made the FC levels between 10ppm and 15ppm
As expected, the PH Drifted up over the last 6 weeks, which I adjusted (with the pool builders permission) with Acid.
The other thing that was off, was the CH reading, which was 75ppm, which I've been slowly increasing the CH by adding Calcium Chloride in batches (again with permission from the pool builder).
Here's my targets, versus the current readings taken yesterday with the TF-100 Test kit:
Targets:
FC 6
PH 7.5
TA 80ppm
CH 300ppm
CYA 40ppm
Latest Test Results:
FC 6
PH 7.5
TA 70ppm
CH 250ppm
CYA 50ppm
CSI -0.52 to -0.38
Temp 55 F
The only thing that looks a little off is the CH, which (from Pool Math), I plan to add 150 oz (or 9.3 Pounds) or Calcium Chloride in granular form (I plan on mixing the Calcium Chloride in a 5 gallon bucket with pool water until it's dissolved in two to three batches).
The TA is also a little Low, should I add 150 oz of baking soda, or leave that alone right now?
I know the CYA has drifted up over the last four weeks (because of the Chlorinating Tablets the pool guy has been using), but I plan to just leave it over the next few weeks to see if it starts to drift down.
Am I on track with this plan, or is there anything else I need to take care of?
Pool, is Gunite, and about 20200 Gallons, finished and first filled in Mid January 2018.
It isn't a Salt Water Pool
To be honest the Pool Builder has been great, but the weekly Pool Guy has been pretty useless at balancing the chemicals.
For the most part, he came in once a week and threw in a few chlorinating a Tablets, or more recently (in the last three weeks) he would put in a 1/2 or full gallon of Liquid Chlorine.
which has made the FC levels between 10ppm and 15ppm
As expected, the PH Drifted up over the last 6 weeks, which I adjusted (with the pool builders permission) with Acid.
The other thing that was off, was the CH reading, which was 75ppm, which I've been slowly increasing the CH by adding Calcium Chloride in batches (again with permission from the pool builder).
Here's my targets, versus the current readings taken yesterday with the TF-100 Test kit:
Targets:
FC 6
PH 7.5
TA 80ppm
CH 300ppm
CYA 40ppm
Latest Test Results:
FC 6
PH 7.5
TA 70ppm
CH 250ppm
CYA 50ppm
CSI -0.52 to -0.38
Temp 55 F
The only thing that looks a little off is the CH, which (from Pool Math), I plan to add 150 oz (or 9.3 Pounds) or Calcium Chloride in granular form (I plan on mixing the Calcium Chloride in a 5 gallon bucket with pool water until it's dissolved in two to three batches).
The TA is also a little Low, should I add 150 oz of baking soda, or leave that alone right now?
I know the CYA has drifted up over the last four weeks (because of the Chlorinating Tablets the pool guy has been using), but I plan to just leave it over the next few weeks to see if it starts to drift down.
Am I on track with this plan, or is there anything else I need to take care of?