First time post, been reading for about 6 months. Thanks TFPP for providing so much valuable information and thanks to all the posters who make these forums a treasure trove of information.
So we just finished out pool last Saturday so we're having a lot of fun, in spite of the cool Pennsylvania weather.
My basic question is this -
This weekend we have plans (and guests) who will use the pool each day through the labor day weekend.
High temperatures forecast are 68 today, 62 Saturday, 75 Sunday, and 82 on Monday.
Based on your experience, should I set the thermostat to 80deg this afternoon when water temp peaks and hold the setting through the entire weekend (warm it up once and maintain for 3 days) or should I shut if off in the evening when the temperature really drops and start from scratch heating the pool each morning. My intuition tells me heating it up once and maintaining will likely consume less gas than trying to heat the pool three times this weekend. Please let me know your opinion. Thanks.
PS
I know we need to include these (been loving my taylor test kit)
FC 16 (I know it's high, I messed up on day one and set the SWG at 100% for the first 24 hours as the pool had 0 FC and 1.5 CC from the dichlor floaters that were in the pool before the pump was hooked up - I didn't realize that my SWG could kick my FC up to 21 within 24 hours. SWG has been turned off for the last 4 days as I'm waiting for the FC to come down to between 5-10)
CC 0
CYA 50 (added some stabilizer prior to this test, but will test again later this week to make sure it has all shown up before adding a little more)
PH 7.4 (Have the same upward drift everyone else seems to have, added quite a bit of acid twice to pull back down)
TA 190 (No clue how it got this high - was it the fill water or did the PB put in some 'alkalinity up' during initial set up, either way intend to just let it fall over time due to acid addition)
CH 130
So we just finished out pool last Saturday so we're having a lot of fun, in spite of the cool Pennsylvania weather.
My basic question is this -
This weekend we have plans (and guests) who will use the pool each day through the labor day weekend.
High temperatures forecast are 68 today, 62 Saturday, 75 Sunday, and 82 on Monday.
Based on your experience, should I set the thermostat to 80deg this afternoon when water temp peaks and hold the setting through the entire weekend (warm it up once and maintain for 3 days) or should I shut if off in the evening when the temperature really drops and start from scratch heating the pool each morning. My intuition tells me heating it up once and maintaining will likely consume less gas than trying to heat the pool three times this weekend. Please let me know your opinion. Thanks.
PS
I know we need to include these (been loving my taylor test kit)
FC 16 (I know it's high, I messed up on day one and set the SWG at 100% for the first 24 hours as the pool had 0 FC and 1.5 CC from the dichlor floaters that were in the pool before the pump was hooked up - I didn't realize that my SWG could kick my FC up to 21 within 24 hours. SWG has been turned off for the last 4 days as I'm waiting for the FC to come down to between 5-10)
CC 0
CYA 50 (added some stabilizer prior to this test, but will test again later this week to make sure it has all shown up before adding a little more)
PH 7.4 (Have the same upward drift everyone else seems to have, added quite a bit of acid twice to pull back down)
TA 190 (No clue how it got this high - was it the fill water or did the PB put in some 'alkalinity up' during initial set up, either way intend to just let it fall over time due to acid addition)
CH 130