Hey y'all!
I've had a pool for a season, but our small town pool supply store just went out of business, so I found TFP and am attempting to maintain it myself this year. I got a Taylor testing kit and got some numbers. My FC was 1, CC was 5.5, PH was 8.4, TA was 130, CH was 180, CYA was 0 (yikes) and Salt was 3000. I have a 35k gallon pool, so it said I needed to add 21 lbs of stabilizer and that would also lower my PH into the correct range. My question is this, my pool obviously needs to be slammed (it's cloudy, not green, but the CC is still 5.5), and the recommended stabilizer level is 70 for swg pools, but can I boost my stabilizer to say 30-40 and then do the slam and then boost the stabilizer the rest of the way? This would save me a lot of liquid chlorine because I would have to boost my FC level to 28 to slam with 70 stabilizer. It makes sense to me, but I've never done this before and I didn't know if that would mess anything up. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks so much!
I've had a pool for a season, but our small town pool supply store just went out of business, so I found TFP and am attempting to maintain it myself this year. I got a Taylor testing kit and got some numbers. My FC was 1, CC was 5.5, PH was 8.4, TA was 130, CH was 180, CYA was 0 (yikes) and Salt was 3000. I have a 35k gallon pool, so it said I needed to add 21 lbs of stabilizer and that would also lower my PH into the correct range. My question is this, my pool obviously needs to be slammed (it's cloudy, not green, but the CC is still 5.5), and the recommended stabilizer level is 70 for swg pools, but can I boost my stabilizer to say 30-40 and then do the slam and then boost the stabilizer the rest of the way? This would save me a lot of liquid chlorine because I would have to boost my FC level to 28 to slam with 70 stabilizer. It makes sense to me, but I've never done this before and I didn't know if that would mess anything up. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks so much!