Well I got rid of my pool guy after 3 months because all they were doing was literally dumping in a bunch of chlorine to last from week to week. I watched on the camera and timed him. The guy was literally here 2 minutes. There's no way he was able to test the water chemistry and calcualte what he'd need based on those results in two minutes. They'd bump the chlorine levels up to 10 so it would last until the next week when they came. Problem was my pH was 8.2 and my Alkalinity was 180 so they weren't doing anything with that. I even tested it several times in the day they would come when the chlorine would drop back to normal levels of 4 or so, just to make sure the high chlorine levels weren't messing up my tests.
Anyways, I've got everything back in check over the last couple weeks.
FC-3.8
CC-0
Ph-7.5
Alk-100
CH-250
CYA-55
So here is my problem. They added a bunch of CYA when they first came out. I'll be honest I didn't even know what that was and hadn't added it to the pool in the 2 years I've had it. I just added the chlorine tabs and kept chlorine and other stuff levels at the normal with strips and called it good. I had never added MA, baking soda, etc.
I've read through all of the Pool School, learned a bunch, and got my water balanced using my Taylor K-2006C. One thing I'm curious about though is the CYA/chlorine chart. With my CYA levels where they are, it's saying I should be all the way in the 6-7ppm range on my chlorine. Everything I've read to date says not to even let people in the water with anything over 4ppm and that it's not safe to swim in. Then every pool place I've spoken with says my CYA levels are right where they need to be.
I really don't want to have to drain my pool now that I've worked so hard to get it balanced, just to knock the CYA levels down. I also don't want to keep my chlorine levels so high. Even if I did keep the chlorine at 6-7, would I be going through more chlorine to keep it that high vs if I had it at 3-4? I would assume that the pool is going to use it up at the same rate no matter what level it's at.
Not sure where to go from here?
Anyways, I've got everything back in check over the last couple weeks.
FC-3.8
CC-0
Ph-7.5
Alk-100
CH-250
CYA-55
So here is my problem. They added a bunch of CYA when they first came out. I'll be honest I didn't even know what that was and hadn't added it to the pool in the 2 years I've had it. I just added the chlorine tabs and kept chlorine and other stuff levels at the normal with strips and called it good. I had never added MA, baking soda, etc.
I've read through all of the Pool School, learned a bunch, and got my water balanced using my Taylor K-2006C. One thing I'm curious about though is the CYA/chlorine chart. With my CYA levels where they are, it's saying I should be all the way in the 6-7ppm range on my chlorine. Everything I've read to date says not to even let people in the water with anything over 4ppm and that it's not safe to swim in. Then every pool place I've spoken with says my CYA levels are right where they need to be.
I really don't want to have to drain my pool now that I've worked so hard to get it balanced, just to knock the CYA levels down. I also don't want to keep my chlorine levels so high. Even if I did keep the chlorine at 6-7, would I be going through more chlorine to keep it that high vs if I had it at 3-4? I would assume that the pool is going to use it up at the same rate no matter what level it's at.
Not sure where to go from here?