Hi Guys!
Learning a lot from the brains trust here. I am based in Sydney Australia and just acquired a pool a few months ago.
Have decided to start doing my own pool maintenance. Pool robot broke down a few weeks ago and this means I have had to manually vacuum, but not doing so great a job. I think that as a result the water hasn't been in the best shape. I've ordered a new robot which should be coming next week.
Water is pretty clear, but there is what appears to be dust/algae at the bottom. Comes off with vacuuming and gradually accumulates along with leaf litter.
Thought I would slam once I got my PH and CYA levels in a good place.
Here were my Clearchoice Labs DPD results:
CYA? [viewing tube did not arrive unfortunately - they apologised and are sending it separately]
FC: 8
CC: 0
Ph: 7.8+?
TA: 125
CH: 675
Salt: 5600 ( Sens 5600)
Before I could complete DIY, the pool robot demo dude offered to test my water himself and fix it. He felt that the dust was a mixture of dust and algae - mostly dust though. He used a Spin Touch.....
So weird thing was Salt was very low as per his results. Ph too high which matched mine. PO4 very high which I could not measure. Other parameters seemed to roughly match.
He said he would do it all for free given I was buying a robot from him. He added Benzalkonium Cl- Copper compound to bring down the PO4 and get rid of the algae, also added a Phosphate reducer, 300g of granular chlorine and 100g of acid. He said I would need to add about 4 large bags of salt to get my salt levels up
So questions ...
1. What do you think of his measurements vs. mine? esp. salt and PO4. Reliability of Spin Touch?
2. What do you think of his intervention
3. Prior to him coming I had added about 300g of dry acid ( HCL was sold out) due to high PH readings which did not seem to shift the PH very much and I am wondering why this was
Learning a lot from the brains trust here. I am based in Sydney Australia and just acquired a pool a few months ago.
Have decided to start doing my own pool maintenance. Pool robot broke down a few weeks ago and this means I have had to manually vacuum, but not doing so great a job. I think that as a result the water hasn't been in the best shape. I've ordered a new robot which should be coming next week.
Water is pretty clear, but there is what appears to be dust/algae at the bottom. Comes off with vacuuming and gradually accumulates along with leaf litter.
Thought I would slam once I got my PH and CYA levels in a good place.
Here were my Clearchoice Labs DPD results:
CYA? [viewing tube did not arrive unfortunately - they apologised and are sending it separately]
FC: 8
CC: 0
Ph: 7.8+?
TA: 125
CH: 675
Salt: 5600 ( Sens 5600)
Before I could complete DIY, the pool robot demo dude offered to test my water himself and fix it. He felt that the dust was a mixture of dust and algae - mostly dust though. He used a Spin Touch.....
So weird thing was Salt was very low as per his results. Ph too high which matched mine. PO4 very high which I could not measure. Other parameters seemed to roughly match.
He said he would do it all for free given I was buying a robot from him. He added Benzalkonium Cl- Copper compound to bring down the PO4 and get rid of the algae, also added a Phosphate reducer, 300g of granular chlorine and 100g of acid. He said I would need to add about 4 large bags of salt to get my salt levels up
So questions ...
1. What do you think of his measurements vs. mine? esp. salt and PO4. Reliability of Spin Touch?
2. What do you think of his intervention
3. Prior to him coming I had added about 300g of dry acid ( HCL was sold out) due to high PH readings which did not seem to shift the PH very much and I am wondering why this was
Most important thing right now ...... don't rely on anyone else for testing or help. Adding the copper did nothing to help and adding copper is never good. We also advise not to use dry avid, but instead use muriatic acid to lower pH. Once you get the CYA tube from Clearchoice, confirm the CYA and follow the 
