- May 12, 2025
- 2
- Pool Size
- 7500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Salt water pool with SWG - had Cl and pH balanced, also CYA was good, Alkalinity was high all tested with strips from Home Depot... All was looking okay, clear and sparkly, but couldn't get hardness down and some tests weren't on the strips I had.
Took a sample to the local pool store, who waved magic wands while asking if I ever shocked my pool (that answer is actually "Yes" 'cause I might skip the bathing suit at midnight) - however, I really said, "No, never shocked it." Of course, the answer was that I HAD TO SHOCK every three or four weeks! AND, my phosphate levels were 3500 ppm! (Even though my home reading was about 500.) Since then, I've learned to pretty much ignore Phosphates...
Yup... I went home with a gallon of juice and the understanding that my 7000 gallon pool would need 3/4 of the gallon...
It's day three in the blazing Florida sunshine and my Cl is still off the charts.
And, I'll admit I feel the fool as I know car salesmen seek to make a sale. I am going to buy some Cl reducer and treat the pool to get it to where I can use it. I'll be gentle and read this forum like a bible...
I've already learned a lot and thank you.
I will be getting a more advance test kit as recommended on TFP and will post some results and welcome comments to get me into the flock or eazy-peazy pool maintenance.
D
Took a sample to the local pool store, who waved magic wands while asking if I ever shocked my pool (that answer is actually "Yes" 'cause I might skip the bathing suit at midnight) - however, I really said, "No, never shocked it." Of course, the answer was that I HAD TO SHOCK every three or four weeks! AND, my phosphate levels were 3500 ppm! (Even though my home reading was about 500.) Since then, I've learned to pretty much ignore Phosphates...
Yup... I went home with a gallon of juice and the understanding that my 7000 gallon pool would need 3/4 of the gallon...
It's day three in the blazing Florida sunshine and my Cl is still off the charts.
And, I'll admit I feel the fool as I know car salesmen seek to make a sale. I am going to buy some Cl reducer and treat the pool to get it to where I can use it. I'll be gentle and read this forum like a bible...
I've already learned a lot and thank you.
I will be getting a more advance test kit as recommended on TFP and will post some results and welcome comments to get me into the flock or eazy-peazy pool maintenance.
D
