Fired the pool guy of 11 years after taking a couple samples into the Pool Store. Chlorine was 0, Ph 8, Alk 240, CYA 200, Calcium 500, Disolved Solids 2900, Phosphates 50
First I worked on Ph, Alkalinity and Chlorine and was leery about going down the list of Pool Store recommendations, knowing they are entirely geared towards selling more chemicals. After much research I stumbled across the BBB method. I ordered a Talyor Test Kit K-2006
A few weeks ago for four days I shut down the pool pump and drained from the top of the pool and filled into the bottom of the deeper end of the pool. I performed my first CYA test and thought I was somewhere close to 30. Took a sample into the Pool Store and they told me CYA was 0. A little more research I realized I was not reading the the test correctly, I guess the black dot needs to completely disappear.
Not buying what the pool store was saying about CYA = 0 I only added 1 cup at a time wait a week and retest. The pool store recommended putting the whole 4 pounds in. After the hard fought battle to dilute, running the pump between Monsoon storms, I was not going to bump my CYA any higher than 30.
The pool water looks the best it has in years and the water feels so much better too. I have finally reached my target numbers for PH and Alkalinity. I am shocking nightly a gallon + of Chlorine, in the evenings I am usually down to 4 - 5 ppm FC / TC, mornings usually between 8 - 10 ppm. I have been shocking to 13 using the poolcalculator.com and my current readings are below.
PH is also a roller coaster around 7.8 at noon and then I add acid to get it to 7.4 before I add chlorine in the evening.
Alkalinity is always dropping, currently 80, started the week at 90. Seem to be dropping about 10 a week. When I hit 70 I throw in Baking Soda and get it back up to 90.
What do I need to do to acheive some sort of equilibrium only adding minimal chlorine and acid?
I intentionally skipped a day on liquid chlorine, I switched to CalHypo to nudge my calcium upto 300. Just SLAMMED is upto 13 with CalHypo.
Here are my stats -
Tap / Fill Water - FC 0 / Ph 7.8 / Alk 150
Test 21:00 8/31/19
FC - 1
TC - 1.5
Ph - 7.4
Alk - 80
CYA - 30
Calcium - 200
Water Temp - 92 °F
Pool is Pebbletec / Kidney shaped 12,720 gallons with TritonII_TR60_sand_filter and Pentair 011055 IntelliFlo 2 VST Variable Speed Pump
First I worked on Ph, Alkalinity and Chlorine and was leery about going down the list of Pool Store recommendations, knowing they are entirely geared towards selling more chemicals. After much research I stumbled across the BBB method. I ordered a Talyor Test Kit K-2006
A few weeks ago for four days I shut down the pool pump and drained from the top of the pool and filled into the bottom of the deeper end of the pool. I performed my first CYA test and thought I was somewhere close to 30. Took a sample into the Pool Store and they told me CYA was 0. A little more research I realized I was not reading the the test correctly, I guess the black dot needs to completely disappear.
Not buying what the pool store was saying about CYA = 0 I only added 1 cup at a time wait a week and retest. The pool store recommended putting the whole 4 pounds in. After the hard fought battle to dilute, running the pump between Monsoon storms, I was not going to bump my CYA any higher than 30.
The pool water looks the best it has in years and the water feels so much better too. I have finally reached my target numbers for PH and Alkalinity. I am shocking nightly a gallon + of Chlorine, in the evenings I am usually down to 4 - 5 ppm FC / TC, mornings usually between 8 - 10 ppm. I have been shocking to 13 using the poolcalculator.com and my current readings are below.
PH is also a roller coaster around 7.8 at noon and then I add acid to get it to 7.4 before I add chlorine in the evening.
Alkalinity is always dropping, currently 80, started the week at 90. Seem to be dropping about 10 a week. When I hit 70 I throw in Baking Soda and get it back up to 90.
What do I need to do to acheive some sort of equilibrium only adding minimal chlorine and acid?
I intentionally skipped a day on liquid chlorine, I switched to CalHypo to nudge my calcium upto 300. Just SLAMMED is upto 13 with CalHypo.
Here are my stats -
Tap / Fill Water - FC 0 / Ph 7.8 / Alk 150
Test 21:00 8/31/19
FC - 1
TC - 1.5
Ph - 7.4
Alk - 80
CYA - 30
Calcium - 200
Water Temp - 92 °F
Pool is Pebbletec / Kidney shaped 12,720 gallons with TritonII_TR60_sand_filter and Pentair 011055 IntelliFlo 2 VST Variable Speed Pump