Quote Originally Posted by PoolDoc View Post
I can -- but you'll have to decide. Do you want to run a pool with some odd adaptive chemistry? The POOL will be fine, and SWIMMERS won't notice, but it will mess with YOUR mind some.

Your alternative is to have it professionally drained, and even then, if the liner is more than 2 - 3 years old, you may lose the liner.

There *IS* another way to drain it in place, but you'd need to buy a 35 x 55 winter cover, in order to do so.
I think that my "guess strips" are actually kind of right with the CYA - it indicates that the stabilizer is around 300 - it has been inching its way up, and I'm sorry to say, I didn't understand what it meant until recently. I've been naive :\

I won't be draining the pool anytime real soon, since we may be changing the liner in the near future due to the fact that we may have to replace the entire concrete pool deck, and that is a thread for a different day ... mostly for me to vent ... and I'm not sure anyone has time for that

I am intrigued now, and am wondering exactly how my mind will be messed with - if you have time and would like to dish about how I can run the pool with this high CYA, I'd love to learn.