Trying to Get Rid of the Pool Cleaning Blues with Robotic Cleaner

[mknauss]

Have you heard of using liquid alum to floc Cyanuric acid in a pool?

Only way to reliably lower CYA is to drain and refill the pool.

 

[thomas kleaton]

Only way to reliably lower CYA is to drain and refill the pool.

I agree. Alum is out.

 

[sande005]

Going back to some earlier topics in this thread:
Besides leaves and algae, you had floc clumps from the initial Green to Clean. Alum will produce the same.
For all of those floc agents, one must carefully vacuum it out to waste. Any leaf raking, netting, roboting, or brushing will break up the clumps of floc, and resuspend them in the pool water, making it cloudy. Some kinds of floc will then not reclump nor resettle, and the water stays cloudy. Some will, but only partially.
Meanwhile, depending on kind, that that gets to the filter has a high risk of permanently plugging the sand in the filter. Even if it doesn't clog the filter, it can take a LONG time to get the suspended material out of the water.

It appears you have dodged most of the bad side effects, now. Backwash that filter. Better would be to do a deep clean. Deep Clean a Sand Filter

I now return you back to the current topic, to continue on with the recommendations by others....

 

[thomas kleaton]

This is pool after I vacuumed it thoroughly. I haven't used pool robot yet, but will likely use it this weekend sometime.

I can't understand why I don't have an algae bloom if my CYA is at 80 ppm, but I don't think the test lied. I kept adding drops of tested pool water
to the vial in TF-Pro kit until the black dot at bottom vanished and level in vial was at 80 mark. I did test twice with separate samples of pool water.
Water is still as clear as glass.
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[PoolStored]

I kept adding drops of tested pool water
to the vial in TF-Pro kit until the black dot at bottom vanished and level in vial was at 80 mark.

Read these instructions for the most accurate result (print them out...having them helps):

CYA - Cyanuric Acid Test

Cyanuric acid (CYA) is the chemical name for the product commonly called “pool water stabilizer” … Read more…

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[thomas kleaton]

Read these instructions for the most accurate result (print them out...having them helps):

CYA - Cyanuric Acid Test

Cyanuric acid (CYA) is the chemical name for the product commonly called “pool water stabilizer” … Read more…

www.troublefreepool.com

I did this test in the kitchen, staring directly down into the tube like you'd stare down a microscope. I'll try the test again tomorrow, doing it exactly as specified in article, with sun at my back.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I would think a newish HTH test strip read at 20 seconds after dipping into water would halfway agree with the TF kit test results. Strip showed CYA at 40.

 

[Newdude]

staring directly down into the tube like you'd stare down a microscope.

Only take a flash of a glance. If you stare your brain lies to you. Wanna see ? Look at your nose. Yeah. You're going to see it for the next half hour now. Sorry about that

 

[PoolStored]

Lighting makes a huge difference. Print out the instructions. Sun at your back, hold at your waist in the shadow of your body and glance.

You can also get a standard solution to train your eyes.

R-7065 CYA Standard 50ppm (2oz)

tftestkits.net