Hi there and thanks in advance for reading and commenting on this post.
Reading all of the positive impacts from having borates in the pool, I decided to add the Proteam Supreme Plus to get to 50 ppm. I know this is a more expensive route, but I was looking for easy and this solution would seem to scratch that itch. My plan is to raise from 0 ppm borates to about 50 ppm, which should be about three 45 Lbs buckets for our pool of about 35-40K gallons.
I'm a bit of a testing nerd and test regularly with LaMotte ColorQ Liquid testing kit. Prior to adding any Proteam Supreme Plus my chemistry was as follows:
FC - 3.2
CC - 0.0
pH - 7.5
TA - 90
CH - 350
Salt - 3,200
The water is crystal clear.
Following the addition of the first 45 Lbs bucket and letting my pool do its thing for a couple of days (VSP runs 24/7 at various speeds) plus the in-floor cleaning system a few hours a day) I got the following results:
TA - 166 (this blew my mind)
pH - 7.7 (not surprising, we tend to drift up with kids swimming and SWCG)
Other parameters were essentially the same. The water is crystal clear.
I called the technical sales rep who was extremely nice, he said to allow two weeks for the chemistry to settle out and do nothing for that amount of time.
Does anyone understand why I am seeing this huge jump in TA (apparently from adding the Proteam Supreme Plus) ?
Is there an equilibrium that needs to be reached that I am just unaware?
Has anyone else had this similar experience with this product?
If so...what the heck did you do?
Thank you in advance, JPB
Reading all of the positive impacts from having borates in the pool, I decided to add the Proteam Supreme Plus to get to 50 ppm. I know this is a more expensive route, but I was looking for easy and this solution would seem to scratch that itch. My plan is to raise from 0 ppm borates to about 50 ppm, which should be about three 45 Lbs buckets for our pool of about 35-40K gallons.
I'm a bit of a testing nerd and test regularly with LaMotte ColorQ Liquid testing kit. Prior to adding any Proteam Supreme Plus my chemistry was as follows:
FC - 3.2
CC - 0.0
pH - 7.5
TA - 90
CH - 350
Salt - 3,200
The water is crystal clear.
Following the addition of the first 45 Lbs bucket and letting my pool do its thing for a couple of days (VSP runs 24/7 at various speeds) plus the in-floor cleaning system a few hours a day) I got the following results:
TA - 166 (this blew my mind)
pH - 7.7 (not surprising, we tend to drift up with kids swimming and SWCG)
Other parameters were essentially the same. The water is crystal clear.
I called the technical sales rep who was extremely nice, he said to allow two weeks for the chemistry to settle out and do nothing for that amount of time.
Does anyone understand why I am seeing this huge jump in TA (apparently from adding the Proteam Supreme Plus) ?
Is there an equilibrium that needs to be reached that I am just unaware?
Has anyone else had this similar experience with this product?
If so...what the heck did you do?
Thank you in advance, JPB