Forum: Dealing with Alkalinity and Calcium

Hi all, My calcium hardness has almost been around 150. We recently had a weeks worth of rainy weather. My pool water got cloudy shortly after....

I have an above ground pool and my alkalinity is 179. I have about 12,000 of water in the pool. I don't have a heater. I just left my local pool...

Used to be on this site years ago and just re-joined. I am not able to search for an answer to my question....Do any household products lower the...

I was on this forum a while back and purchased the FAS-DPD chlorine test and I also have the total poolcare dpd test kit : I have a 25,000 gallon...

I have 27' x 4' Roung AGP with 24" hayward sand filter and 2 speed 1.5 hp pump. New pool set up showed no FC, no CYA, TA at 325, PH 7.0 Using BBB...

I have a 16x32x52 above ground pool with a sand filter and salt generator. I have to clean the elements of the SWCG just about every other day. We...

When using my Taylor test kit to test my CH the instructions say if CH is present the water will turn red. My water does not turn "red" it turns a...

Since a Vinyl lined pool does not need calcium, how much is too much and what kind of problems can it cause?

Is a calcium blend ( with cacl2, nacl, kcl, mgcl2) such as many brands sold online okay to use for increasing calcium hardness? How do you know...

I have a in ground pool, ~13,000 gallons, about 10 years old with pebble tech finish. It has a spa that spills into the main pool. I've always kept...

My pool is approximately 22,000 gallons with spa. It is salt water and uses Pentair equipment with four pumps. They are the filter pump, wet edge...

I'm new here. Hi to everyone and Thanks for having me as a member. This is the 1st time I have ever had a problem with Alkalinity being too high....

3rd year with my Intex 9x18 pool. I had been going to the pool store for help, with lousy results. Finally tried the BBB method instead, and low...

Hi, I have a 16 x 24 above ground pool; took water to pool store for testing and it was recommended to add calcium; I did so and now my pool is like...

Hope I'm posting in right place. Chlorine-6 TA-80 CH-300 Ph-7.6 Those are my chemical readings and I use the taylor kit to test , but my...

Hello and thank you for reading this. Yesterday my pool was crystal clear. I checked the water and I was low on pH (7 - 7.2) as well as low on...

I was told I need to add 45lbs of hardness plus to my pool and 8 lbs of conditoner. We have only lived in this house for 2 years. Pool was already...

I am retired and had a pool (gunite) and spa built this spring for my wife and I and we have been enjoying it immensely. It is a small freshwater...

Just joining the pool world. Starting with 16ft 48" above ground Intex before we go bigger. Having a tough time bringing the alkalinity down without...

I've been seeing a lot about how to substitute expensive pool store stuff with things like grass clippings and paper (j/k) but the one thing I do...

Although several people have told me that these two are the same, from what I read online they are connected but in fact not a single issue. My TA is...

Hello all :) Great forum! New pool owner. I'll save my questions for after doing some reading first. Just wanna say thanks for having a great...

We put our pool in and started it up in the spring of 2005. It is a Hydraazo finish 18 x 36 at 9 feet at the deepest end. We figure it is about...

Hello: I have very cloudy/milky white water, I think because I mistakenly added PH minus and calcium increaser at roughly the same time, and I think...

We had a monsoon that flooded our pool, so it took a couple days to get it back in order. I have been taking daily readings and noted that CH test...

If this doesn't get moved to the right place, when I can post to the right place, it'll look like this: I have soft water, so my hardness is often...