New pool owner - Testing Chlorine - Saltwater pool

[Beth0277]

Hello! New pool owners this year. We've been using a maintenance company to help us get balanced until we learn. We've been consistently low on chlorine but our pool tech thinks everything is okay and it just "takes time". I was impatient and added half a bottle of liquid chlorine (which was half of what the pool math app recommended) to be sure it was safe for my family to swim in.

I got the Taylor 2006-S kit from recommendations from a FB group. The instructions mention using the syringe to pull up the liquid and dispensing it until the sample is clear (when testing chlorine). That was a little confusing so I pulled up YouTube and saw instructions using the dropper and counting drops instead. The video was 10 years old so just assuming they didn't use the syringe before. Is it okay to do the dropper method (which seems easier)? It took 10 drops to clear the water (which was light pink after adding 2 scoops of the powder) which I think equals 2 ppm of free chlorine.

Thanks for any help! I'm trying to learn the Taylor kit one chemical at a time.

 

[jsygrls]

Thread 'So you are new to testing' also you can browse Water Testing Instructions - Further Reading

See if this helps....its fun to reading anyway.

 

[duraleigh]

Get OUT of that facebook group. If you are interested in properly managing your pool. stay with TFP.

I dont think Taylor makes a 2006S They DO make a k-2006C, K2006, and a K2005...........which one do you have?

 

[Newdude]

dont think Taylor makes a 2006S

There is a salt version now, the TTK2006Salt using the 0.75 oz bottles of the K2006. I'm assuming thats what they meant.

Welcome to TFP Beth !!!

 

[sande005]

I found it - Instructions are in Spanish: Complete™ kit for Chlorine, pH, Alkalinity, Hardness, CYA (FAS-DPD–high range) (.75 oz bottles) Spanish

It seems pretty much the same as usually recommended here, but uses a syringe rather than a dropper bottle for dispensing the reagent.
To the OP - try the tests a several times either way, and see if they differ. The bottle may make different sized drops than the syringe, and that would give wrong results.

We usually recommend something similar from TFtestkits.net. Their kits are sized to include the amounts typically needed for a full year of use. The Pro versions includes a stirring device that NONE of us would ever part with, ever. You can get the stirrer separately. Your kit will work, although you may have to deal with the syringe. You can get refill kits with the larger amounts in dropper bottles, when needed. Typically they have a spring sale for those, at a good discount. Alas, that sale has ended. You may have trouble fitting everything into the existing plastic case, but you can buy the custom one, also.