- Jun 13, 2013
- 6
I live in a multigenerational household and we've all been waiting for someone else to figure out how to take care of the pool and letting the pool store tell us what to do. Fail! They sold us tons and tons of chemicals, especially tricolor and algeacides... Wonder why the cya was so high? Hmmmm
Filled with dread of a new season I waited until late to open the pool
Thankfully I found the pool school :-D
I now have a Leslie's pool test kit
Upon opening the pool the Ph and alkalinity were through the roof high, added muriatic 3 gallons of muriatic acid to get it close to the accepted range (7.4 ph and 180 ta)
Cya was over sky high and did 2 partial drains because I was too afraid to drain as much as necessary the first time, second time took it down from 120 to 45 after about 40% drain
(Calcium hardness was over 450 but drains took care of that too)
Current test
FC .7 (ish)
TC more than 5, guessing 6 or 7
CC ? 5.5 ish?
PH 7.4
TA 105
CH 280
CYA 45
I'm sending the teenager to the store to get more muriatic acid to take ph down to about 7.0
But then what? I'm having trouble figuring out what shock range is for my pool
Thx
Filled with dread of a new season I waited until late to open the pool
Thankfully I found the pool school :-D
I now have a Leslie's pool test kit
Upon opening the pool the Ph and alkalinity were through the roof high, added muriatic 3 gallons of muriatic acid to get it close to the accepted range (7.4 ph and 180 ta)
Cya was over sky high and did 2 partial drains because I was too afraid to drain as much as necessary the first time, second time took it down from 120 to 45 after about 40% drain
(Calcium hardness was over 450 but drains took care of that too)
Current test
FC .7 (ish)
TC more than 5, guessing 6 or 7
CC ? 5.5 ish?
PH 7.4
TA 105
CH 280
CYA 45
I'm sending the teenager to the store to get more muriatic acid to take ph down to about 7.0
But then what? I'm having trouble figuring out what shock range is for my pool
Thx