Thanks. Will do that. Hopefully the pool won’t be full of nasty surprises. Have no clue what condition it’s in! It was winter when we saw the home
Total newbie moving into a home with a pool
- Thread starter coolperson
- Start date
- Jun 24, 2021
- 15,872
- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
TFP basics.
Don't do anything until you can test yourself.
Step 1, you need CYA to protect your FC. Test your CYA, add enough, after testing, to get to at least 30ppm. For normal operations in Ontario, 30-50 CYA is fine. Use "chlorine stabilizer" in a sock (old one, tied off, filled with stabilizer, and put it in the pool carrot on a stick style in front of a return).
Step 2, add enough liquid chlorine to maintain your FC for your CYA. If the sock is in the pool with enough CYA to raise to 30, consider your CYA to be 30. Link-->FC/CYA Levels
Step 3, 4, 5...manage your pH next, then CH.
Why type of pool do you have? (vinyl, Fiberglass or plaster?)
www.troublefreepool.com
Don't do anything until you can test yourself.
Step 1, you need CYA to protect your FC. Test your CYA, add enough, after testing, to get to at least 30ppm. For normal operations in Ontario, 30-50 CYA is fine. Use "chlorine stabilizer" in a sock (old one, tied off, filled with stabilizer, and put it in the pool carrot on a stick style in front of a return).
Step 2, add enough liquid chlorine to maintain your FC for your CYA. If the sock is in the pool with enough CYA to raise to 30, consider your CYA to be 30. Link-->FC/CYA Levels
Step 3, 4, 5...manage your pH next, then CH.
Why type of pool do you have? (vinyl, Fiberglass or plaster?)
What Are My Ideal Pool Levels?
Use our tool to find ideal chemical levels for any swimming pool. Check TFP recommended levels on pH, free chlorine, cyanuric acid, and more.
www.troublefreepool.com
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Are those levels of CYA okay for salt water pool in Ontario?TFP basics.
Don't do anything until you can test yourself.
Step 1, you need CYA to protect your FC. Test your CYA, add enough, after testing, to get to at least 30ppm. For normal operations in Ontario, 30-50 CYA is fine. Use "chlorine stabilizer" in a sock (old one, tied off, filled with stabilizer, and put it in the pool carrot on a stick style in front of a return).
Step 2, add enough liquid chlorine to maintain your FC for your CYA. If the sock is in the pool with enough CYA to raise to 30, consider your CYA to be 30. Link-->FC/CYA Levels
Step 3, 4, 5...manage your pH next, then CH.
Why type of pool do you have? (vinyl, Fiberglass or plaster?)
What Are My Ideal Pool Levels?
Use our tool to find ideal chemical levels for any swimming pool. Check TFP recommended levels on pH, free chlorine, cyanuric acid, and more.
I haven’t seen the pool as it was covered when we saw the home. Going by pictures, I think it is vinyl or fiberglass
- Jun 24, 2021
- 15,872
- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
I'm in Ohio, just south of you. You will find CYA of 60-70 to be just fine, anything higher is a de minimus return. I run CYA of 80-90, only to reduce SWG usage. You will find >70 CYA to not have much benefit over 60.
For new pool salt pool owners, we recommend 60 CYA, until you know how your pool acts and you can maintain proper FC.. At 60 CYA, it is much easier to SLAM, if you cannot maintain FC.
My advice is to maintain CYA of 60. When you can demonstrate you can maintain proper FC for 60, then raise to 70 or 80. Raising to higher levels is strictly an effort to extend the life of the cell.
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I may be getting ahead of myself, and I feel like this is probably something I’m not to worry about as of now, but I’m curious as to how raising the CYA extends the life of the cell?
To my understanding higher CYA=requires higher FC. Doesn’t that mean the cell would be working harder to produce more FC?
A higher CYA protects the FC from UV rays. Thus, the SWG won't work harder to make chlorine because the chlorine will hang around longer.