Since being quarantined I've had a lot more time at home. We didn't like our pool guy anyway so I've decided to take over the pool duties. I've been learning a lot in the past two months but I'm stuck with high CYA and what to do now.
I've taken the pool water to Leslie's but have since gotten a Taylor kit to test at home. Lelie's says the CYA is at 150 but I've read it can be higher and to do a dilution test. I looked up the dilution test on Taylor's website. 1 part pool water to 1 part tap, multiply by 2. 1 part pool, 2 parts tap multiple by 3. According to the Taylor website when doing a dilution test with 1 part pool water and 3 parts pool water the multiplier is 5 not 4.
So with that in mind I did the dilution with the black dot and the water is cloudy even before reaching the 100 mark. That means 500 ppm!
I've pulled the chlorine float and stopped the tablets. We swam in the pool the other day and chlorine dropped to 0-1. I've increased the chlorine to 4.8ppm with liquid but I've heard it should be even higher to sanitize with high CYA...
The ph is hard to keep down. I have it at 7.8 right now but it seems to keep going up. Have added 2 gallons of muriatic acid over the month.
TA is at 250
Total hardness on the test strips is off the chart darkest color.
My pool guy puts in phosphate killer every week. I've added 4 oz of PR-1000 2 weeks ago, it looks to have kept the phosphates down, I'm not trying to add phosphate killer every week, but this seems to be his way of keeping pools with high CYA in check.
Is it time to drain?? Does everyone in California just have high CYA and not know it? Everyone I talk to has a pool guy and they have never drained their pool. Please help. Thanks.
I've taken the pool water to Leslie's but have since gotten a Taylor kit to test at home. Lelie's says the CYA is at 150 but I've read it can be higher and to do a dilution test. I looked up the dilution test on Taylor's website. 1 part pool water to 1 part tap, multiply by 2. 1 part pool, 2 parts tap multiple by 3. According to the Taylor website when doing a dilution test with 1 part pool water and 3 parts pool water the multiplier is 5 not 4.
So with that in mind I did the dilution with the black dot and the water is cloudy even before reaching the 100 mark. That means 500 ppm!
I've pulled the chlorine float and stopped the tablets. We swam in the pool the other day and chlorine dropped to 0-1. I've increased the chlorine to 4.8ppm with liquid but I've heard it should be even higher to sanitize with high CYA...
The ph is hard to keep down. I have it at 7.8 right now but it seems to keep going up. Have added 2 gallons of muriatic acid over the month.
TA is at 250
Total hardness on the test strips is off the chart darkest color.
My pool guy puts in phosphate killer every week. I've added 4 oz of PR-1000 2 weeks ago, it looks to have kept the phosphates down, I'm not trying to add phosphate killer every week, but this seems to be his way of keeping pools with high CYA in check.
Is it time to drain?? Does everyone in California just have high CYA and not know it? Everyone I talk to has a pool guy and they have never drained their pool. Please help. Thanks.