- Apr 29, 2021
- 16
- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Good morning, new pool owner learning the ropes of water balance. I’ve been testing water myself for about a month and a half now and in the last week my chlorine has shot up and looking for a the proper plan to lower it (if needed). We filled the pool on 3/7 and the PB had only added salt and acid. They did a pool school with us about a week later, but it was mostly focused on how to operate and maintain the equipment. I have a Taylor 2005 kit they provided and began performing all the tests and found I had 0 CYA and 20-30 ppm TA, so I focused on increasing these two all while trying to maintain the pH. I was able to get the TA to 90 and the CYA around 60, then last weekend noticed my FC level had gone to 10 or higher with the 2005 FC test. The PB had set the SWG to 80% output and had the pump running 11 hours a day, so throughout this week, I've lowered the run time to 9 hours and decreased the output to 30%, but the levels remain high. That all led me to this site, which is fantastic by the way, and I ordered the FAS-DPD refill kit on Amazon, which arrived yesterday.
Yesterday, I performed all my tests again, using the new chlorine test and below are those results:
FC: 9
TC: .5
pH: 7.6
TA: 60
CYA: 50
CH: 350
I understand the CYA is low, but didn't want to add more stabilizer while the FC is still high, unless that is what I should do? Also, the TA could use a bump and I still have baking soda on hand, but also wanted to understand what to do with the FC first. It was about 3 weeks ago since I added the baking soda and stabilizer to get those numbers up and since then we had 8" of rain in 4 days, and we have not been using the pool much bc of weather, until this past week where we were able to use it some. Would appreciate any advice on which numbers to work on first, or any other advice as well.
In case it is not in my signature, pool is 20k gallon, concrete, SWG (IntelliChlor IC40), variable speed pump. If any other info is needed, please let me know!
Thanks!
Chad
Yesterday, I performed all my tests again, using the new chlorine test and below are those results:
FC: 9
TC: .5
pH: 7.6
TA: 60
CYA: 50
CH: 350
I understand the CYA is low, but didn't want to add more stabilizer while the FC is still high, unless that is what I should do? Also, the TA could use a bump and I still have baking soda on hand, but also wanted to understand what to do with the FC first. It was about 3 weeks ago since I added the baking soda and stabilizer to get those numbers up and since then we had 8" of rain in 4 days, and we have not been using the pool much bc of weather, until this past week where we were able to use it some. Would appreciate any advice on which numbers to work on first, or any other advice as well.
In case it is not in my signature, pool is 20k gallon, concrete, SWG (IntelliChlor IC40), variable speed pump. If any other info is needed, please let me know!
Thanks!
Chad