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[karicali]

Hi all,

We bought a house with a pool over the winter, and we've limped along thus far with maintaining it. I'm a chemical engineer turned stay at home mom, so here we go!

I just ordered my T-something test kit and drained about half my pool to lower my CYA. Am I doing this right?

(Truly found this site because I was sold some "yellow blaster" at the pool store yesterday and told to lower chlorine and add the powder to eat the algae, and i didn't love their advice. )

 

[PoolStored]

Don't use the yellow blaster.

You don't want to drain a plaster pool when it is hot. If you have already drained and the plaster exposed, keep the plaster wet and fill it!

Use the no-drain water exchange here;

Draining - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

Follow the slam process to clear the pool of algae. Link-->SLAM Process

Post a full set of test results. FC,CC,PH,TA,CH,CYA

 

[Texas Splash]

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