Hello!
I am brand new to pool ownership and am trying to learn the ins and outs and figure out what to do to keep our awesome pool running well! This is a long question so I apologize.
I read a lot here before moving into the new house and was concerned about CYA since I found out our new pool has an automatic chlorine table dispenser thing, and the tablets add CYA to the water until it is so high you have to drain part of the water to get it back down. We decided to go ahead and use the tablets we have and then decide if we wanted to move to liquid Chlorine.
I tested the water with my new Taylor k6000 kit and I'm sure I didn't do it right. So we took our water to Pinch a Penny pool store and they did a free analysis. They said our water is PERFECT....
But then I looked at the numbers and inputed them into Pool Math to make sure it was all recorded.
Here are the levels from Pinch a Penny:
Total Chlorine: 3.0 ppm
Free Chlorine: 3.0 ppm
Combined Chloring: 0 ppm
pH: 7.4
Alkalinity: 100 ppm
Calcium Hardness: 275 ppm
Stabalizer (CYA right?): 100 ppm !!!! This is super high right??
Dissolved solids: 400 ppm
So when I put it into pool math, it is telling me to do all sorts of things...including draining the pool to decrease CYA, adding 466 oz of calcium Chloride and 54oz of Borax.
Why is Pinch a Penny saying I have 'perfect water' but pool math recommending all sorts of intervention? ...I assume it is because the CYA is so high. So my actual question is, how urgent is it for me to get the CYA down? Will that fix the other problems? My husband is feeling like we should just leave well enough alone. The water is clear and beautiful and seems perfect...but I don't want to neglect something and then have bigger problems.
Thank you so much for any help you can give me!
Courtney McGrew
I am brand new to pool ownership and am trying to learn the ins and outs and figure out what to do to keep our awesome pool running well! This is a long question so I apologize.
I read a lot here before moving into the new house and was concerned about CYA since I found out our new pool has an automatic chlorine table dispenser thing, and the tablets add CYA to the water until it is so high you have to drain part of the water to get it back down. We decided to go ahead and use the tablets we have and then decide if we wanted to move to liquid Chlorine.
I tested the water with my new Taylor k6000 kit and I'm sure I didn't do it right. So we took our water to Pinch a Penny pool store and they did a free analysis. They said our water is PERFECT....
But then I looked at the numbers and inputed them into Pool Math to make sure it was all recorded.
Here are the levels from Pinch a Penny:
Total Chlorine: 3.0 ppm
Free Chlorine: 3.0 ppm
Combined Chloring: 0 ppm
pH: 7.4
Alkalinity: 100 ppm
Calcium Hardness: 275 ppm
Stabalizer (CYA right?): 100 ppm !!!! This is super high right??
Dissolved solids: 400 ppm
So when I put it into pool math, it is telling me to do all sorts of things...including draining the pool to decrease CYA, adding 466 oz of calcium Chloride and 54oz of Borax.
Why is Pinch a Penny saying I have 'perfect water' but pool math recommending all sorts of intervention? ...I assume it is because the CYA is so high. So my actual question is, how urgent is it for me to get the CYA down? Will that fix the other problems? My husband is feeling like we should just leave well enough alone. The water is clear and beautiful and seems perfect...but I don't want to neglect something and then have bigger problems.
Thank you so much for any help you can give me!
Courtney McGrew