This is just a practice drill, for what's to come. Reverse Osmosis trailer will be coming over on Saturday. Maybe 3 days later after the recycle and refill of lost water, I'll have one hand on the panic button, the colorful Taylor K2006 Fas-DPD kit opened up, and the other hand punching the Total Free Pool Link shortcut for help because dialing 911 will not do me any good.
It is a good break point to get rid of my pool guy. I really do like him, but I don't want to put any more of his kids through college. I have shadowed the guy and performed most of the tests periodically. Pretty much chlorine, muriatic acid, chlorine muriatic acid, repeat, week after week. No real test of all that can go wrong, so this will be game changing. I quite frankly do not know the sequence of events to follow, once I take over with I don't know what. I'll get a report of values once the R.O. is complete and a reasonably close estimate of the free form pool size, which has long been a mystery. I'm guessing that when the R.O. readings starts to remain the same, that will be the estimated volume. Not sure how accurate that might be. I used a satellite image and a known reference point of measure to scale off the pool area, took several depth measurements and made the volume calcs from that. 34,000gals+/-, is my figure, making all the necessary deducts for wall radiuses etc. Backed that up with a real world hand measurement. The pool guy has 19,000 gals on file. Somebody's way off, and I don't think it's me. How my guy adjusts the chemistry puzzles me. He plays the long slow game I'm guessing, because I think he's got to be guessing. He's found a pattern that works and he just stays with it. What ever gets it done I suppose, but it'll be mine to deal with soon, and I really want to eliminate the variables and the guess work.
Anyway, when armed with some real data, and real concerns, ...I'll be back!
It is a good break point to get rid of my pool guy. I really do like him, but I don't want to put any more of his kids through college. I have shadowed the guy and performed most of the tests periodically. Pretty much chlorine, muriatic acid, chlorine muriatic acid, repeat, week after week. No real test of all that can go wrong, so this will be game changing. I quite frankly do not know the sequence of events to follow, once I take over with I don't know what. I'll get a report of values once the R.O. is complete and a reasonably close estimate of the free form pool size, which has long been a mystery. I'm guessing that when the R.O. readings starts to remain the same, that will be the estimated volume. Not sure how accurate that might be. I used a satellite image and a known reference point of measure to scale off the pool area, took several depth measurements and made the volume calcs from that. 34,000gals+/-, is my figure, making all the necessary deducts for wall radiuses etc. Backed that up with a real world hand measurement. The pool guy has 19,000 gals on file. Somebody's way off, and I don't think it's me. How my guy adjusts the chemistry puzzles me. He plays the long slow game I'm guessing, because I think he's got to be guessing. He's found a pattern that works and he just stays with it. What ever gets it done I suppose, but it'll be mine to deal with soon, and I really want to eliminate the variables and the guess work.
Anyway, when armed with some real data, and real concerns, ...I'll be back!