First Test Results with Taylor Kit

[waterbear]

You must have been using some cal-hypo since your calcium reading is at 270. I would just stick with bleach instead of cal0hypo.

OR you live in an area with hard water! Many areas have CH of 600 ppm or higher out of the tap!

[sunNfun]

Thanks for the replies. We opened the pool about two weeks ago and tested with strips while we waited for the Taylor to arrive. At that time, it was suggested to add some bleach and muratic acid. We added these items one time according to suggestions. We have not used anything else; no pucks, shocks, or cal-hypo. Yes, our water must be very hard out of the tap.

We also added the CYA two weeks ago when we opened the pool, according to what is suggested for an 8000 gal. pool.

My husband got the kids to go in the pool with him this evening and they are playing "whirlpool" ie kicking and splashing to aerate, if an effort to start lowering the TA.

We are thinking about leaving the solar cover off and not running the SWG to see if we can get some of the chlorine to evaporate.????

[Watermom]

You could do those two things but although it is a little high, it isn't a big problem. It's gonna come down on its own pretty quick with little CYA in there.