Neighbor with Yellow water after adding acid

[DougM]

Its what the pool store told him.... he's got 12 lbs of my stuff and 20 lbs borax in. He needs to find more as he cleared out walmart.

[PoolDoc]

Tell him to buy "Washing soda" if he can't find borax. But, be careful. Washing soda will raise the pH more than borax. So he should be adding 2 boxes of washing soda or 4 boxes of borax via the skimmer, waiting 30 minutes to an hour; testing and then repeating if he sees no change in pH. Once he sees the SLIGHTEST increase in pH, he needs to drop back to 1 box of washing soda or 2 boxes of borax . . . OR he will overshoot and end up with high pH.

[waterbear]

Its what the pool store told him

Probably from a computer print out because the TA was high. THIS is a reason I do not like computerized pool store testing (and I have done my share of it and crossed out their print out instructions and wrote what they were REALLY supposed to do.)

[CarlD]

Hope Doug is UPHILL from his neighbor.....