So I've been fighting to LOWER my pH (it was at 8) and balance the rest of the chemicals... so I told my wife to go get muriatic acid and Cyanuric acid. Our son's eyes were burning so she was freaking out and went and bought stuff and added it. Well she added a bag of pH UP and told me "I don't know I bought what you told me" and I was even on the phone with her and told her to read what it was. Told her to send a picture and she didn't... well she added it and less than an hour later tested the water (I added 1.25 gallons of muriatic acid in the last 3 days) and my pH is 7.9. How long does Clorox pH UP take to react and get an accurate reading for what she did and how can I counteract it?
My wife went and did her own thing
- Thread starter eevulone
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Chlorox pH up is sodium carbonate, aka washing soda. It raises pH and TA. The effects are immediate once dissolved and mixed. Just measure your new TA and pH and adjust pH accordingly with PoolMath. There's no need to panic or rush to add something to counter this.
How big of a bag was it? A 4 lb bag will raise the TA of a 28,000 gallon pool by 16, and the pH not by much. A gallon of 32% muriatic acid will lower TA by 18, and drop the pH by roughly twice as much as a 4 lb bag of washing soda. Exact amounts of pH change depend on a number of factors and cannot be listed without knowing all water parameters. Hence why to just test pH and adjust as normal.
How are you testing the water? Hopefully a good drop based kit with an FAS-DPD chlorine test like the Taylor K2006 or the TFTestkits TF100? If so, can you post a full set of results?
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What I'm concerned about too is the eye irritation. Unless the pH gets really out of wack, eye irritation is typically caused by improper chlorination. Any pH within the 7's should not cause eye irritation.
How big of a bag was it? A 4 lb bag will raise the TA of a 28,000 gallon pool by 16, and the pH not by much. A gallon of 32% muriatic acid will lower TA by 18, and drop the pH by roughly twice as much as a 4 lb bag of washing soda. Exact amounts of pH change depend on a number of factors and cannot be listed without knowing all water parameters. Hence why to just test pH and adjust as normal.
How are you testing the water? Hopefully a good drop based kit with an FAS-DPD chlorine test like the Taylor K2006 or the TFTestkits TF100? If so, can you post a full set of results?
FC
CC
pH
TA
CH
CYA
What I'm concerned about too is the eye irritation. Unless the pH gets really out of wack, eye irritation is typically caused by improper chlorination. Any pH within the 7's should not cause eye irritation.