Bromine Chemistry Question

Arg-h. No wonder.

My wife, who is a elementary resource teacher (she teaches the ones who are about to fail the standardized test!), can barely access the internet from school. They have the most awkward, cumbersome system I've ever seen. It just got worse, since some kids were able to bring up porn on a number of monitors, recently.

I'm NOT going to worry about the fact that pool9.net is blocked on some school site. Typically those blocks are set to block everything by default and then allow by selection.

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The link works from home just fine.

Anyway, may I send you a picture tomorrow? I now have a question about what looks like iron stains on my stairs. They appeared after a huge rain last night. I still had my pool uncovered through most of the deluge. The water is also looking dull. It also looks slightly tinted but that's when I'm looking towards the stairs and that could be a reflection...?

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Originally Posted by PoolDoc

After waiting 3 days (after a TA reading < 150 ppm), retest both pH and TA, and report results here. Do NOT test either pH or TA during the 3 days you wait.

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Okee-Doke! Test results tonight:
FC: 2.0
pH: 7.5
TA: 100-110 (did get a little more red with last drop but pretty red at 100)
CH: 60-70
CYA: almost there but I will retest in daylight

What do I do next?!?!

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Thanks for the new handle!

Since I know you guys are busy, please just let me know if I am off base on my next step.

I am thinking that now that my TA is good, I should start using the calcium hypolchorite per instructions to try to reduce metals in the water. My water is dull looking and there is definitely an orange tinge on my stairs.

If you ALREADY have staining, you may want to lift the stains, before using the cal hypo.

However, you can certainly use the cal hypo now, and then again, later.

That might even be best, since it seems to take more than one pass, to lift the stains and then get all the metals out of the water.

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Okay. Heading out now to test pH and add borax. The stains are very light. I think by "lifting stains" you mean sequestrate the metals, so I will buy some HEDP tomorrow. If I am wrong on this, just let me know. Otherwise, no need to respond.

I actually like Atlanta, and the surrounding area. My son interned 2 summers at Georgia Tech and one of us would stay with him in Buckhead for a couple of weeks, then switch off with the other parent. We'd bring our younger one down during the changeover, or all stay there for a week together. Went out to Stone Mountain a couple of times. We didn't see anything like "Deliverance"!

The sculpture at Stone Mountain is amazing. Borglum left it to go do Rushmore but in the details, I like Stone Mtn. better. You had a sweet deal being able to spend time with your son on his internships -most of us can't take that much time. I have spent time (and paddled) around the Chattooga river; it's a beautiful area as long as you don't start humming "Dueling Banjos"...!

Miss the South....

Most of the people I know in Illinois think they're in the south.