- Jul 2, 2018
- 648
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Hey all. I’ve been reading these forums for the past 6 months or so as my pool was being built. My pool was filled with water on Thursday. PB uses a pool service company to start the pool up. He showed up Thursday afternoon, started the pump, added a metal sequester, acid, and floated some pucks. He said he’ll see me on Monday. I told him that I would maintain PH and see him Monday.
So, over the weekend, I added some acid to keep it in range and added some calcium (fill water is 50ppm) to bring to 125 for now.
He came today and said he had put in some liquid stabilizer the first time (my test didn’t show any) and that now he would put in liquid chlorine to bring it up to 3ppm. When I asked him about bringing calcium to at least 200-250 now, he says “oh yeah, you can do that, I don’t have any with me”. I then told him I would be in charge of the chemistry, he can do the other things (long list). Ok...here’s my full test about 5 hours after pool guy left:
FC: 0
CC: 0 (I guess, can’t measure?)
PH: 7.2
TA: 60
CH: 125
CYA: 0
Temp: 62
So, I went to Home Depot and bought some Calcium and liquid chlorine. Stopped by Leslie’s and bought liquid conditioner (I know a waste of $$, but just wanted something easy)
I put 10 lbs of calcium in the skimmers (plan to put more, but I read no more than 10lbs at a time), 2 gallons stabilizer, and chlorine. The stabilizer should bring me up to around 30, so I wanted to get to a FC of 6. Pool math says I should put 2 qts, 1 cup of 10%. I partially filled up a 5 gallon bucket with water and measured out 2qts, 1 cup of chlorine. I poured it slowly in front of the return at the deep end.
I was going to wait until tomorrow to run a full set of tests, but about 20 mins later, I did the chlorine drop test. I got my sample near the return at the shallow end. Ok....here’s where I need help...
I added the powder to my sample, and it immediately turned pink. Good sign! I was expecting about 12 drops of the reagent to get back to clear. 12 drops came and went, then 20 drops, 30 drops, 40 drops, squeeze real hard and put as much as I can in....still pink!
HELP!
I bought my test kit around Aug 2018. The expiration date on the reagent says July 2019.
Thanks!
So, over the weekend, I added some acid to keep it in range and added some calcium (fill water is 50ppm) to bring to 125 for now.
He came today and said he had put in some liquid stabilizer the first time (my test didn’t show any) and that now he would put in liquid chlorine to bring it up to 3ppm. When I asked him about bringing calcium to at least 200-250 now, he says “oh yeah, you can do that, I don’t have any with me”. I then told him I would be in charge of the chemistry, he can do the other things (long list). Ok...here’s my full test about 5 hours after pool guy left:
FC: 0
CC: 0 (I guess, can’t measure?)
PH: 7.2
TA: 60
CH: 125
CYA: 0
Temp: 62
So, I went to Home Depot and bought some Calcium and liquid chlorine. Stopped by Leslie’s and bought liquid conditioner (I know a waste of $$, but just wanted something easy)
I put 10 lbs of calcium in the skimmers (plan to put more, but I read no more than 10lbs at a time), 2 gallons stabilizer, and chlorine. The stabilizer should bring me up to around 30, so I wanted to get to a FC of 6. Pool math says I should put 2 qts, 1 cup of 10%. I partially filled up a 5 gallon bucket with water and measured out 2qts, 1 cup of chlorine. I poured it slowly in front of the return at the deep end.
I was going to wait until tomorrow to run a full set of tests, but about 20 mins later, I did the chlorine drop test. I got my sample near the return at the shallow end. Ok....here’s where I need help...
I added the powder to my sample, and it immediately turned pink. Good sign! I was expecting about 12 drops of the reagent to get back to clear. 12 drops came and went, then 20 drops, 30 drops, 40 drops, squeeze real hard and put as much as I can in....still pink!
HELP!
I bought my test kit around Aug 2018. The expiration date on the reagent says July 2019.
Thanks!