Hello, I’m a new owner of an older AG pool that I am trying to open for the season and need help with the TFTestKit results. I’d like to thank you all in advance for being part of such a helpful forum. I’m assuming I at least need to SLAM but the test results are so wonky I’m not quite sure where to start.
History: Pool was professionally closed for the winter in Connecticut (paid for by former owner). I removed the pool cover 1 week ago and added nothing. Pool turned green w/ algae. Backwashed filter and ran pump overnight last night and it’s no longer green but it is cloudy. I did all of the same tests right when I removed the cover and the results were the same.
Total Chlorine & pH tests:
Color results unreadable, see picture at end.
(Are we supposed to shake for this test or not?)
Chlorine Drop Test:
FC 0.5 ppm
CC 0.0 ppm
—-> TC = 0.5 ppm
Calcium Hardness: 30 drops R-0012 times 25 = 750 ppm
The calcium test is neon purple before adding R-0012, at which point the card says “red indicates the presence of Calcium”. It’s blue-violet after 10-15 drops and then only fully blue after 30, hard to tell the transition point. I believe this means I should drain water but wanted to double check if this alternate color means anything, especially in context of all of the other odd results.
TA: Unknown, see picture at end.
Turns hot pink when adding R-007 & R-008. Then adding lots of R-009 just fades the pink a little.
CYA: 60
Any help is greatly appreciated. Pictures:
History: Pool was professionally closed for the winter in Connecticut (paid for by former owner). I removed the pool cover 1 week ago and added nothing. Pool turned green w/ algae. Backwashed filter and ran pump overnight last night and it’s no longer green but it is cloudy. I did all of the same tests right when I removed the cover and the results were the same.
Total Chlorine & pH tests:
Color results unreadable, see picture at end.
(Are we supposed to shake for this test or not?)
Chlorine Drop Test:
FC 0.5 ppm
CC 0.0 ppm
—-> TC = 0.5 ppm
Calcium Hardness: 30 drops R-0012 times 25 = 750 ppm
The calcium test is neon purple before adding R-0012, at which point the card says “red indicates the presence of Calcium”. It’s blue-violet after 10-15 drops and then only fully blue after 30, hard to tell the transition point. I believe this means I should drain water but wanted to double check if this alternate color means anything, especially in context of all of the other odd results.
TA: Unknown, see picture at end.
Turns hot pink when adding R-007 & R-008. Then adding lots of R-009 just fades the pink a little.
CYA: 60
Any help is greatly appreciated. Pictures:
You have a few things to adjust right away:
