pH near 8 and possibly rising

[PoolDoc]

Note re-edit of my earlier reply above. -ben

[gorji]

Understood and thank you.
When I got the pool, a friend of mind recommended the Taylor kits so recommended in this forum. At the time, I was wondering why but I have come to appreciate what I was told earlier.

I think it all comes to balancing stabilizer levels along of pH and Cl with the enemy being now or low chlorine (thus algae), extremes of pH and stabiilzer. I started to use the Trichlor tabs again just to try to keep the stabilizer levels from dropping too much but am relying on the bleach for the sanitizer not the tabs.

[aylad]

Looks like you've got a good handle on it! Just keep your chlorine in line with your stabilizer levels (see the "best guess chlorine chart" linked in Pooldoc's sig above) , watch your pH (the trichlor will drive it down, as you know), and you should be in great shape.

Janet