Necessary Chemicals for Maintaining Intex-Style Pool?

[Watermom]

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[PoolDoc]

membership upgraded AND thread moved so you can post again. (Sorry!) -ben

[dchannes]

Thanks Ben! Can you point me in the right direction for lowering my TA? I know you said it was a pain in the "patoot".

[aylad]

Here ya go...
http://www.poolsolutions.com/gd/lowe...p-by-step.html

Janet

[dchannes]

OK, I went to Walmart and the only product I could find that had cyanuric acid in it was a 4lb bag of "hth 3-in-1 startup" for salt pools. The ingredients list is as follows:
1,3,5-TRIAZINE-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-TRIONE (Cyanuric acid) 77%
Hexametaphosphate - 17%
Aluminum Sulfate - 5%
MAGNESIUM CARBONATE - 1%

I also got the @0 Mule Team Borax and have the liquid bleach for shock. However, I did see some straight trichlor shock, but I didn't buy it yet.

The readings are: TC: 1-2, pH: 7.2, TA: 290, TH: 360, CYA: still see the eye clearly.

Any suggestions?

[PoolDoc]

What a mess! Stabilizer + SHMP + alum + magnesium carbonate. No wonder people's pools are so messed up!

If you can get the 24lb pack of PoolBrand dichlor at Sams club, do so. Otherwise, you may need to get it from Amazon:

Kem-Tek Stabilizer 4lbs

[dchannes]

Thanks. I was waiting to here back on this before I opened it and put any in my pool! I figured as much. The crooks want all the $ they can get out of us. I know now why you have such rigorous firewalls on this forum. To keep the pool chem sales people OUT!

You may have seen my previous posts but I'll repeat. I had a big algae problem. Which I stopped. Then, I had a cloudy pool. I did use algaecide. I won't do that again, though it DID kill it. All I'm using is trichlor right now. I stopped using the cal-hypo shock. The pool cleared up and all the dead stuff went to the bottom. One thing I've figured out is with this pump I've got, you have to move REAL slow with the vacuum. Otherwise, you just stir it back up again. Also, I realize this takes lots of patience!

The TA is at 290. Hardness is off the chart. But the pH is stable at 7.2 and TC is around 4.

I don't know WHY you guys do this, but thank you!

I will get the dichlor eventually.

[Charlie_R]

If you have an ACE hardware close by, you might be able to get HTH stabilizer and conditioner. Careful reading of the label shows Cyanuric acid, sulfuric acid, and water as the ingredients. At least the store here in town carries some pool stuff.

[PoolDoc]

If sulfuric acid is a listed ingredient, it's not plain stabilizer, but some OTHER kind of goopy blend!

[Charlie_R]

That was from the CAS # list, the other list on it shows CYA 96%, inert ingredients 4%. I assumed that the CAS list would follow the other, as being 96% CYA, with the other 2 making up the 4%. no other chemicals listed.

Sorry.