Swim University is probably the biggest Youtube channel teacher of the traditional method of pool care in video. They are also probably the best for thoroughly teaching the traditional method to the highest standards. I've been commenting on all their uploaded videos this year telling them where they are wrong and where TFPC is right whenever the methodologies conflict. Yesterday, from out of the blue, they released a video on cyanuric acid, and they recommend the exact same ranges as what is taught here. Not only that, but they recommemded the all-important ratio (7.5% fc/cya). They did not, however, address how to manage fc/cya at 7.5% usong trichlor or not using trichlor, so I don't know if they are also going to do a turnabout on the best chlorine forms to recommend to maintain these ratios or how and when to add or how to test or offer tfp's chart or their own chart or maybe no chart and just leave it to the pool owner to figure out.
I've got a feeling though that the fc 1-4 recommendation regardless of the cya level method of pool care is getting ready to crash like the former Soviet Union did starting in 1988. Firstly, we've got more and more pool owners discovering this site and the ratio is being talked up in other circles as well. It's started to be argued for everywhere I go to help argue for tfpc methodologies. There are others besides me doing this; most-especially those who were angered by a green pool incident who got caught with high cya via following pool store advice. There are folks out there with a mission to help right this ship. I'm not one of those. I was told by a pool store clerk to stop adding pucks because my cya was 68; switch to cal hypo pucks. I went home curious to try and figure out how my cya got to be 68 and found tfp. The rest was history.
Secondly, Robert Lowry llc is teaching a variation of this ratio in his books but with some weird add ons amd take aways from TFPC like a maximum 1,500 TDS and an allowance for a 5% ratio when borates are maintained in pools.
Thirdly, and most importantly, we've got Richard Falk out there getting ready to change public pool regulating to include a cya/fc ratio rule in the near future for states and municipalities; and lastly, more and more traditional information outlets, Orenda, SU, Swimming Pool Tips channel, and others are either endorsing BBB or TFP. as a good and proper method of pool care or are introducing the ratio and acting like it is their idea. That's what SU has done. I congratulated them in the comments for finally endorcing BBB that's been widely communicated and growing for almost thirty years. I wasn't the only TFP subscriber/member who did this. Anyway, TFP followers are becoming less weird suddenly. Within a few years, I'll predict they'll be far fewer green pools; but there is some up and coming, new, weird stuff out there like Orenda's lsi system of pool care that they say is endorsed by Richard Falk, and we've got Dr Lowry still talking up TDS as if it's ultra important; and we've still got that overplayed phosphate remover thing going on, so it will be interesting how fc/cya falls in with all of these marketing schemes if it gain traction like it seems to be doing; and also, will they try to suggest a way to manage these ratios and adequate and more precise chlorine levels with pucks, as liquid use is strongly resisted by some for whatever reason; or are the days for regular pucks use numbered?
I've got a feeling though that the fc 1-4 recommendation regardless of the cya level method of pool care is getting ready to crash like the former Soviet Union did starting in 1988. Firstly, we've got more and more pool owners discovering this site and the ratio is being talked up in other circles as well. It's started to be argued for everywhere I go to help argue for tfpc methodologies. There are others besides me doing this; most-especially those who were angered by a green pool incident who got caught with high cya via following pool store advice. There are folks out there with a mission to help right this ship. I'm not one of those. I was told by a pool store clerk to stop adding pucks because my cya was 68; switch to cal hypo pucks. I went home curious to try and figure out how my cya got to be 68 and found tfp. The rest was history.
Secondly, Robert Lowry llc is teaching a variation of this ratio in his books but with some weird add ons amd take aways from TFPC like a maximum 1,500 TDS and an allowance for a 5% ratio when borates are maintained in pools.
Thirdly, and most importantly, we've got Richard Falk out there getting ready to change public pool regulating to include a cya/fc ratio rule in the near future for states and municipalities; and lastly, more and more traditional information outlets, Orenda, SU, Swimming Pool Tips channel, and others are either endorsing BBB or TFP. as a good and proper method of pool care or are introducing the ratio and acting like it is their idea. That's what SU has done. I congratulated them in the comments for finally endorcing BBB that's been widely communicated and growing for almost thirty years. I wasn't the only TFP subscriber/member who did this. Anyway, TFP followers are becoming less weird suddenly. Within a few years, I'll predict they'll be far fewer green pools; but there is some up and coming, new, weird stuff out there like Orenda's lsi system of pool care that they say is endorsed by Richard Falk, and we've got Dr Lowry still talking up TDS as if it's ultra important; and we've still got that overplayed phosphate remover thing going on, so it will be interesting how fc/cya falls in with all of these marketing schemes if it gain traction like it seems to be doing; and also, will they try to suggest a way to manage these ratios and adequate and more precise chlorine levels with pucks, as liquid use is strongly resisted by some for whatever reason; or are the days for regular pucks use numbered?
time will tell.
