Overwhelmed

I agree that your numbers look good. My only comment is that if you find, once the heat of summer gets here, that you are having trouble keeping chlorine in the pool through a hot sunny day that you might want to bump your CYA up some. You may not need to but just keep it in mind if you start ending up with your chlorine level below the needed minimum (per the Best Guess Chlorine Chart) at day's end.

Good job!

Looks like you're not so Overwhelmed any more. Congrats! Have fun!

Yesterdays readings are:

FC 5 ppm
CC 1 ppm
Alkalinity 7.6 pH
CYA 42

Please advise.

Also, someone stated raising stabilizer. How do I raise that again?

40 ppm CYA is OK.

5 ppm FC is OK. 1 ppm CC is probably a testing error, unless you are 'smelling' the pool.

You can raise CYA by dissolving cyanuric acid into the pool -- a sock works well for soft side pools -- or by using dichlor or trichlor, which add almost a ppm of CYA for every ppm of chlorine.

So should I add just one "dose" of dichlor? or two? and should I ALWAYS do equal amounts of BORAX?

You add dichlor to raise chlorine. It also raises CYA.

You add borax to raise pH.

You only do either, when you want to affect the particular pool factor. I usually try to size 'doses' to give them a reasonable amount to add at one time. But, that's assuming a 'test, dose, retest' approach, that corrects pool factors gradually.

I am super appreciative for all of the help. You guys and gals are awesome!

Glad things are working well for you . . .