Hi! After tons of money and different pool guys (turning my pool GREEN when paying $140 per month!), I’ve decided to manage my own pool and spa. We bought the home two years ago and I’ve been managing it for about a year. I’ve referenced this site many times, so I’m appreciative of you all. I haven’t managed my own testing, so I take it to a local place weekly. I hope to learn that soon! Anyways, we have a safety cover that I’m removing today. I have a salt generator, but I took it off for the winter and it’s not quite warm enough to install it again. I also bought boric acid from Duda to use this year because I’m constantly battling high ph with SWG. I hope that will help buffer it. Should I wait until I get the salt generator installed before putting the borates in the pool? Or just get all the chemistry aligned and then add it? This is our first year using a safety cover, so I’m not familiar with pool opening. BTW- 14,500 gallon fiberglass pool! Thank you all!
New here— opening pool, borates, and what to do first!
- Thread starter caitym
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Dont add any borates until you get the test kit and post up the results. You cannot trust pool store testing.
In reality, you probably dont need borates.
The pool store near me uses the dye test and they aren’t a big chain like Leslie’s. I do need to just learn it myself. Do you have a kit recommendation?
Wolfepack88
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- Jun 21, 2020
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- Jandy Aquapure 1400
I recommend the Taylor Test kits, if you have a salt pool then get the salt test. No matter what get the speed stir so it automatically spins water in the little test tubes for you. Easy peasy to do. I got mine from this site and would recommend them (I have no affiliation but many folks here get their stuff from them). That link will answer your question on which kit to get. I have the Pro kit and I have the salt test as well. Use the pool math app do your testing (its easy after a few times you can do the tests within like 10-15 mins) and the app will tell you what you need to add if anything. It might seem daunting at first but if you can hold a little dropper of count drops that go into a test tube and watch for a color change say from red to clear then you will have zero problems.
See above link to the only two test kits TFP recommends. It helps when everyone is using the same test and its been proven pretty reliable.