Hi new guy in town here looking for advice.
After few weeks of land prep and set up, I finally filled to about 38". Water seemed clean still I shocked and popped a floater with a 3 inch puck. I tested the water using Clorox test strips and the PH and alk seemed high but chlorine TC and FC looked good. Water is clear and not cloudy.
Haven't swam in it yet but been testing with strips daily and vacuuming and skimming. Just keeping debris out as much as I can. It's not big so takes only a few minutes. Today I tested and noticed the FC and TC were low to 0. Made me think to actually have water tested at my local pool store, Leslie's. Their numbers pretty much matched with the test strips though they were a lot more fine tuned measurements.
They recommended dry acid to lower the pH from 7.8 to 7.5 and the all from 183 to 100. Based on my pool size and capacity with the current measurements of the test they recommended 7 pounds of dry acid.
That seemed high to me so I read before leaving the store and people were pretty split on muriatic acid vs dry acid, really only saying dry has sulfur byproduct bonding with calcium to form gypsum where as MA is a bit more risky to handle. Figured I'd go for the dry acid since I don't have a calcium problem.
Pool store guy said I could do the whole 7 pounds at once but I dk still seemed high so I started with around 4 dry cups in a bucket. Mixed dissolved and then poured in. Filter is running for last 4 hours. Probably leave on for another 3.
I didn't think to do it earlier but I used a pool math calc and it recommended 7.5 ounces of dry acid. Did I use too much? Conflicted since pool store said 7 pounds and math app said 7.5 oz. Luckily I didn't fill cups full more of a scoop than a full cup so probably closer to 3 cups.
After few weeks of land prep and set up, I finally filled to about 38". Water seemed clean still I shocked and popped a floater with a 3 inch puck. I tested the water using Clorox test strips and the PH and alk seemed high but chlorine TC and FC looked good. Water is clear and not cloudy.
Haven't swam in it yet but been testing with strips daily and vacuuming and skimming. Just keeping debris out as much as I can. It's not big so takes only a few minutes. Today I tested and noticed the FC and TC were low to 0. Made me think to actually have water tested at my local pool store, Leslie's. Their numbers pretty much matched with the test strips though they were a lot more fine tuned measurements.
They recommended dry acid to lower the pH from 7.8 to 7.5 and the all from 183 to 100. Based on my pool size and capacity with the current measurements of the test they recommended 7 pounds of dry acid.
That seemed high to me so I read before leaving the store and people were pretty split on muriatic acid vs dry acid, really only saying dry has sulfur byproduct bonding with calcium to form gypsum where as MA is a bit more risky to handle. Figured I'd go for the dry acid since I don't have a calcium problem.
Pool store guy said I could do the whole 7 pounds at once but I dk still seemed high so I started with around 4 dry cups in a bucket. Mixed dissolved and then poured in. Filter is running for last 4 hours. Probably leave on for another 3.
I didn't think to do it earlier but I used a pool math calc and it recommended 7.5 ounces of dry acid. Did I use too much? Conflicted since pool store said 7 pounds and math app said 7.5 oz. Luckily I didn't fill cups full more of a scoop than a full cup so probably closer to 3 cups.
