You can keep the end of the hose off the floor by attaching a floatie of sorts to the end of it.
Pebble Sheen being shot tomorrow. What to expect?
- Thread starter PebblePool
- Start date
- Jul 16, 2012
- 7,204
- Pool Size
- 27000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
It is interesting to see a gunite/fiberglass/gunite pool transform. Thanks for risking your life/marriage!
It's beautiful! A little green right now, once we hit it with chorine it'll blue up....
We are still battling Total Alkalinity. We've thrown over two gallons of acid in there. Our TA is 140 right now. The PH is at the bottom end of the range.
The surface is beautiful, totally worth the money.
The surface is beautiful, totally worth the money.
How are you aerating to bring the pH back up?
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Shoulda asked: Are you guys in charge of the start-up?
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Shoulda asked: Are you guys in charge of the start-up?
I've been following the Pebble Tec instructions. It appears that i'm supposed to bring the TA down and adjust PH after that. We're doing the start up.
You need to get that pH up. Lower than test range pH is not good.
Would you give us a full list of your current test results as soon as your testkit arrives? It is difficult to advise without those numbers. Thanks!
Would you give us a full list of your current test results as soon as your testkit arrives? It is difficult to advise without those numbers. Thanks!
FILL WATER
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FC 0
My fill water was PH of 8
Total Alkalinity of 175
Calcium Hardness of 250
TDS 400
Salt 300
My TA is right now about 125
My PH is 7.2
Just got back from P-A-P to get them to test my water. The guy there was pretty informative, here is what I'm looking at (according to them). I'm very happy to see the TA going down without really cratering the pH. PT and the NPC recommend a pH of 7.2-7.4 for the time curing.
FC 0.0 (obviously)
pH 7.4 (marginally, probably closer to 7.2)
TA 100
CH 375
CYA 0 (obviously)
TDS 4003
Salt 300
FC 0.0 (obviously)
pH 7.4 (marginally, probably closer to 7.2)
TA 100
CH 375
CYA 0 (obviously)
TDS 4003
Salt 300
- Feb 6, 2015
- 6,093
- Pool Size
- 12300
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
Do you have your own test kit? TF-100 or K2006C?
Pool store testing is mostly considered unreliable at best.
Have you added CYA yet? What is your target CYA level?
You may want to consider added about 2ppm chlorine for now - best not to give algae a start.
Pool store testing is mostly considered unreliable at best.
Have you added CYA yet? What is your target CYA level?
You may want to consider added about 2ppm chlorine for now - best not to give algae a start.
I have a better test kit on order, right now. Probably should have done that BEFORE starting up the pool. NPC instructions say to have a CYA of 30-50ppm, but not to add that until the 4th day which will be monday. We can add 1.5-3ppm chlorine tomorrow, not quite sure why they want us to wait to add CYA.