High alkalinity and calcium levels are much trickier to resolve than the pool books indicate
HOWTO: Step-by-Step Guide to lowering your alkalinity The HOW-TO has moved here: lowering-swimming-pool-alkalinity-step-by-step.html You should...
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 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...
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...
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...
Ok, i'm a new pool owner (not a new pool). Bought a house with a 14x28 IG pool with vinyl liner, sand filter, heater, and auto-cover. Thpool...
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...
My TA is currently 230. It was recommended on another forum that I lower it according to the "HOWTO: Step-by-Step Guide to lowering your alkalinity"...
Alkalinity is over 200 PPM. In the past I have used muratic acid to lower it, but when I use the Arm and Hammer sodium carbonate, recommended by you,...
Just a quick question y'all. Just tested the water (per Ben's pool testing kit) and my Calcium Hardness is 60ppm, which is low... BUT, my...
Recently, starting about 3 weeks ago, I started noticing white tiny flakes in my pool water. When I grab some with my net, they breakup with...
My ph was low (a constant problem), reading below the minimum 7.0 on my Taylor test kit, so I added a box of Borax. This created a little cloudiness...
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...
One I got my high alk in line, it was time to add more water due to evaporation losses. This shot my alk right back up of course, since my fill...
Pool looks good but numbers are so so. Cl is 4-6 cya 80 ph has been 8.0. Should I decrease it and if so how? I use the Taylor test kit. It's great....
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 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...
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...
Hi, I'm new to the forum! :) I have a new pool and I'm a little confused about this issue. I had my water tested today and was told I had a high PH,...
15,000 gallon IG plaster Alkalinity here is naturally high out of the tap, pool tested at 220ppm. Their test said pH was 8.2, all mine say it's...
Test results Cl= 5 oto test pH=7.2 alk= 90 cya= n/a ca=didn't test, vinyl liner water temp= 72f 21,000 gal pool
We have a 18x48 frame set intex pool. It holds about 5,580 gallons of water. We just filled it with water May 30. We have been adding muriatic...
Is there a "grocery store" source for adding calcium?
I am a newbie also. I have an above ground 24' round. We filled it up using water that goes thru our water filtration system. After testing, I...
Need a little help with this one because I've never seen this before. My neighbor opened his pool yesterday (24K gal vinyl IG pool, Chlorine)....
I've been purchasing DuPont PH and Total Alkalinity decreaser with the active ingrediant of Sodium bisulfate at $7 for 4lbs. I have to add 1-2...
Has anyone heard of this product or used it to reduce calcium levels? Saw it online but not really sure if it works or we are throwing money away.
I noticed a previous post about this, but it was an igp, mine is an agp. I have no idea how to deal with it. The pool store gave me some scale...
Hi, I have a plaster pool which has a low calcium reading according to my recent test. It is at 160 and I need to get it up to between 200-400. I ...
Alkalinity is 80, calcium hardness 220, TDS 1000, Phosphates 0, CYA 40. Chlorine stable at 2+ppm. I use 3" trichlor tabs but still am constantly...
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