My CYA is at 60ppm. I'm trying to get it to 80ppm as we have a happy new SWG (intex). It's an above ground pool and we don't have a skimmer.
I used a bottle of liquid gold to get it to 60ppm. I don't particularly want to buy another bottle (especially as quite a few threads suggest adding partial bottles is unreliable due the good stuff sticking to the side).
I would buy dry stabilizer and float a sock on a pool noodle, to avoid the dry stabilizer sitting on the vinyl. I'm not 100% I can keep it from bumping into the wall, but maybe tie it on the long pool pole across a corner, near enough the return?
But I have a giant bucket of trichlor granules left over from before finding TFP. I initially tried to use that to raise the CYA, but just sprinkling it in caused staining/bleaching on the bottom of the pool (a few wrinkles in the bottom cause it to collect).
Any reason I shouldn't just treat the trichlor like the dry stabilizer, stick it in a sock suspended in the path of the return?
I know that it will raise FC (even though it's old), but I can turn the SWG off for a few days no worries. "Effects of adding" also says Trichlor lowers pH (500 grams in my pool (~6k gallons) should raise CYA by 20, and lower pH by 1.1 (which is a lot, currently at a lovely 7.6, maybe 7.7). Dry stabilizer basically needs the same amount but lowers pH by a reasonable 0.4.
Thoughts?
I used a bottle of liquid gold to get it to 60ppm. I don't particularly want to buy another bottle (especially as quite a few threads suggest adding partial bottles is unreliable due the good stuff sticking to the side).
I would buy dry stabilizer and float a sock on a pool noodle, to avoid the dry stabilizer sitting on the vinyl. I'm not 100% I can keep it from bumping into the wall, but maybe tie it on the long pool pole across a corner, near enough the return?
But I have a giant bucket of trichlor granules left over from before finding TFP. I initially tried to use that to raise the CYA, but just sprinkling it in caused staining/bleaching on the bottom of the pool (a few wrinkles in the bottom cause it to collect).
Any reason I shouldn't just treat the trichlor like the dry stabilizer, stick it in a sock suspended in the path of the return?
I know that it will raise FC (even though it's old), but I can turn the SWG off for a few days no worries. "Effects of adding" also says Trichlor lowers pH (500 grams in my pool (~6k gallons) should raise CYA by 20, and lower pH by 1.1 (which is a lot, currently at a lovely 7.6, maybe 7.7). Dry stabilizer basically needs the same amount but lowers pH by a reasonable 0.4.
Thoughts?
