Hi,
I know this has been asked before many times. There is sooo much to look through that it is making my head spin. There are also a lot of old threads and a lot of threads that just stop without any solution.
So please bear or beer with me.
Refer below
Brisbane QLD Australia
Concrete 42000 Litre Pool (11000 Gallons)
Pebblecrete interior
Glass water/step tiles
Paramount PC2000 in floor cleaning
Pentair Tagelus TA60D filter with Glass media (1-3 micron M10 & M20)
Pentair easy touch automated
Pentair VS intelliFlo pump
Multi Cyclone 50
Enviroswim ES3 sanitiser (operates with in floor cleaner and skimmer i.e. on when the pump is on)
Commissioned end of September 2016
In floor cleaner run times 1.5 hours twice per day – total 3 hours
Skimmer run times 1.5 hours twice per day – total 3 hours
Total sanitisation – 6 hours per day.
I am having major issues controlling my pH. It creeps up from pH 7.2 to over 8 in under 4 days.
My concrete pool is now over a year old and requires 3 to 4 litres of acid per week to keep the pH around 7.2 – 7.4, preferred pH for Enviroswim sanitising system (copper/Silver, oxidiser and ultrasonic) and this is in winter or summer with no bathers. I get very little leaf material in the pool unless it is very windy which is not that often.
Enviroswim preferred levels
Alk – 80 to 120
CH – 200 to 300
Copper – 0.1 to 0.3
When back washing I have noticed the water was light blue. After some research I believe this is caused by the high pH, making the copper release from suspension thus getting caught in the filter. There were also blue stains in the bottom of the pool, mainly around the in floor and down jets. Would this be correct? I have never had the copper over 0.2.
I have tried different situations i.e.
Different Alkalinity levels, 30 to 150, mainly 60 to 130 – problem remains
Enviroswim off for several months – problem remains
Pool pump off for 1 month – problem slightly slowed
My pool has never turned green (even when off for approx. 3 months - winter), only very slightly opaque every now and then but I think that may occur when I put in a heap of acid?
I use a Taylors test kit (K-2005C) for all my testings and have had several results compared to as many swim shops and I have found my results more reliable. Most shops were spot on to close but two shops have said some of my results were wrong but when they ran another test they got completely different results again….. they say there machine must be due for calibration.... I have also had another pool company visit twice with their Taylors kit and we had the same results both times.
The guys from Enviroswim and the pool man that visited say there is something wrong with the interior of the pool but……. The peblers who came out to re acid wash the pool said NO WAY, IT CANNOT BE THE INTERIOR!
The pool builder has drained the pool and re acid washed the interior early August 2017 and now the problem seems to be slightly worse?
I have been told that no one has ever seen or heard of this before..... until I found this website - YAY!
What really ANNOYS me is that I have spent a huge, massive, astronomical, no one would pay this amount of money to have a LOW MAINTENANCE and LOW CHEMICAL POOL and it has been the absolute OPPOSITE! 'insert one million swear words here!'.
I have had ongoing dramas with the pool builder so there is a lot more to this story - maybe for another thread later. 'insert one million swear words here as well!'. I am sure I will be able to laugh at all of this some day soon, it would make for a good read....
Many thanks
Avo1
I know this has been asked before many times. There is sooo much to look through that it is making my head spin. There are also a lot of old threads and a lot of threads that just stop without any solution.
So please bear or beer with me.
Refer below
Brisbane QLD Australia
Concrete 42000 Litre Pool (11000 Gallons)
Pebblecrete interior
Glass water/step tiles
Paramount PC2000 in floor cleaning
Pentair Tagelus TA60D filter with Glass media (1-3 micron M10 & M20)
Pentair easy touch automated
Pentair VS intelliFlo pump
Multi Cyclone 50
Enviroswim ES3 sanitiser (operates with in floor cleaner and skimmer i.e. on when the pump is on)
Commissioned end of September 2016
In floor cleaner run times 1.5 hours twice per day – total 3 hours
Skimmer run times 1.5 hours twice per day – total 3 hours
Total sanitisation – 6 hours per day.
I am having major issues controlling my pH. It creeps up from pH 7.2 to over 8 in under 4 days.
My concrete pool is now over a year old and requires 3 to 4 litres of acid per week to keep the pH around 7.2 – 7.4, preferred pH for Enviroswim sanitising system (copper/Silver, oxidiser and ultrasonic) and this is in winter or summer with no bathers. I get very little leaf material in the pool unless it is very windy which is not that often.
Enviroswim preferred levels
Alk – 80 to 120
CH – 200 to 300
Copper – 0.1 to 0.3
When back washing I have noticed the water was light blue. After some research I believe this is caused by the high pH, making the copper release from suspension thus getting caught in the filter. There were also blue stains in the bottom of the pool, mainly around the in floor and down jets. Would this be correct? I have never had the copper over 0.2.
I have tried different situations i.e.
Different Alkalinity levels, 30 to 150, mainly 60 to 130 – problem remains
Enviroswim off for several months – problem remains
Pool pump off for 1 month – problem slightly slowed
My pool has never turned green (even when off for approx. 3 months - winter), only very slightly opaque every now and then but I think that may occur when I put in a heap of acid?
I use a Taylors test kit (K-2005C) for all my testings and have had several results compared to as many swim shops and I have found my results more reliable. Most shops were spot on to close but two shops have said some of my results were wrong but when they ran another test they got completely different results again….. they say there machine must be due for calibration.... I have also had another pool company visit twice with their Taylors kit and we had the same results both times.
The guys from Enviroswim and the pool man that visited say there is something wrong with the interior of the pool but……. The peblers who came out to re acid wash the pool said NO WAY, IT CANNOT BE THE INTERIOR!
The pool builder has drained the pool and re acid washed the interior early August 2017 and now the problem seems to be slightly worse?
I have been told that no one has ever seen or heard of this before..... until I found this website - YAY!
What really ANNOYS me is that I have spent a huge, massive, astronomical, no one would pay this amount of money to have a LOW MAINTENANCE and LOW CHEMICAL POOL and it has been the absolute OPPOSITE! 'insert one million swear words here!'.
I have had ongoing dramas with the pool builder so there is a lot more to this story - maybe for another thread later. 'insert one million swear words here as well!'. I am sure I will be able to laugh at all of this some day soon, it would make for a good read....
Many thanks
Avo1