Forum: Testing and Adjusting Pool Water Chemistry

Planning to add Borax to my non-SWG 9000 gal plaster pool as ph rises. I hope the following is correct. 540 oz or 7.10 Boxes of 76 oz 20 Mules team...

Am lead to believe, after reading a while back an American Ground Water Association article, that aerating water by passing bubbles through it...

How does rain water affect PH? Recently we have had alot of rain and have been pumping the pool out every couple days. My PH seems much more stable...

I wish I had found this forum and read every word of it earlier. We have 52" 24' round pool, which I believe has a volume of 13,600 gallons. I'm...

I've read here several times that you can keep your pH a little higher if your CYA level is high (mine is 150); but is there a chart somewhere that I...

Ok...since last Thursday (new pool and startup of all equipment) and even now. Pump on 24/7, water is still cloudy. I decided to go to warehouse...

I took a sample of my pool water to get tested at the pool store and they told me my CYA was 100. This is a new pool this August and I bought the...

I'm going to order the Taylor K-2006 test kit, but have been reading on this board (thanks everyone!) that I should probably purchase extra CYA...

Hi all! I have floating, snowy, flakey looking white stuff in my pool and spa, but more in my spa. It settles in drifts in the spa. I vacuum it...

I was told that there was a product or some type of pill that you can put in your pool, and what it does is when you have people / friends over and...

Hello all, Thanks to all the helpful people in this forum, I had a very successful first pool season. Now I am starting to close my pool and just...

Hi there - I received Ben's test kit last week and went right to work converting my Baqua-crud pool to the First Church of BBB. It took about 4...

I've got that level up to 65 PPM. My chlonrine readings are now consistently at 3 or higher - that's as high as my kit tests for. MY SWG has been...

I've looked at the hardware stores and at Leslies, but I can't find a kit to test my CYA levels. I'll order Ben's but I'm not sure if he's taking...

Since I had my pool liner replaced, over 1 year ago, the PH is always elevated when I check (not too often recently). The pool repair company said...

I mixed up the CYA in a bucket of warm water as instructed. I was pouring it into the skimmer. There are two pipes under the skimmer basket. One is...

I've been folowing The Great Tetraborate Experiment! with great interest. I purchased a bottle of Aquachek test strip, and plan to boost my pool's...

In the sticky on the beginners guide to pool chemistry needs it says to use 20 mule team borax to raise ph, or soda ash. The bleachcalc program only...

I am attempting to lower my TA but my PH needs to get lower 1st. I found the sticky on lowering the TA but can't find the info on the acid to lower...

My WalMart AquaChem test kit say not to test for pH, TA or CH unless "total available chlorine" in 3.0 ppm or less. Does this apply even if CYA is...

I have one of Ben's kits but have been using up supplies in an hTh 6-way test kit from Wal-Mart that I bought while waiting for the good one to...

If am adding some cyanuric acid to my pool, how long should I wait until I swim? I'm guessing that depends on how much cyanuric acid I'm adding. ...

I can't seem to raise my Ph above the low end of 7.0-7.2 Over the last 3 days I have added 1 1/2 cups of borax (1/2 cup every 24hours) and the ph...

I ran out of the Taylor Phenol Red reagent (R-0014) tonight so I broke out a new bottle. When I tested the pH with that I got a color that didn't...

I have a 23,500 sf in ground gunite pool with attached spa. Yesterday afternoon I backwashed my DE filter and recharged with DE. Due to water loss,...

Hello. We're looking at Tropical Storm Ernesto to come through here later today. Hopefully it won't intensify further, it is predicted to be a...

My Alk is sky high in the 210 range How much Borax do I add to bring it down? I have a gunite pool with Pebble tec and it has appx 15,100 gallons....

Thanks for the responses to my previous post, let me give some background. I purchased a house with a 16X32 IGP vinyl liner about 15 years ago and...