Phooey on Phosphates Removers

[CarlD]

Ah, another poor soul duped into being "Pool-Stored". Happily it was only for $25, not a season's worth of this garbage. Welcome back into the light!

OK. Your OTO kit and the drop-testing store are pretty compatible with each other. Never trust stores that use strips.

Second, get your own kit and don't bother with them. In 12 years I've never take a sample to a pool store. Can't imagine why I would.

On the sig for PoolDoc, Watermom, or aylad, you can find a link to buying the test kit we recommend: The Taylor Technologies K-2006 and K-2006C (larger amounts of test chems). If you click on the link, if it takes you to Amato industries you can go ahead and get it. If it takes you anywhere else, they've been sending the K-2005, which costs as much but should cost $25 less (because it doesn't have the most important test: FAS-DPD which is different from DPD). Anything you buy that way pays a small commission to the site to help maintain it.

There are a couple of good alternatives if it's not available. There's the Leslies Chlorine FAS-DPD Service Test Kit which is the K-2006 rebadged as Leslies, but is full MSRP at $70. TaylorTechnologies.com charges full MSRP as well.

Carl