Thanks for the info. I'll be going to get the Borax in a bit. The chlorine is low, it is barely registering. The test strips I'm using are the HTH 6 way test strips. I see you mentioned guess strips aren't good enough to use, but then recommended the strips I have? I haven't ordered the Taylor testing kit yet but was intending to get it. Are these okay until I order the better testing kit? I did test with the HTH 6 Way test kit and posted the results in my original post.
The film is completely gone from the water. Now there's just the faintest little oil spots on top of the water in the skimmer basket. The rest of the pool looks completely back to normal on top. The water is still a little bit cloudy and the pH is still low. The TA seems to be increasing? One thing I'm wondering, could a week and a half of irregular and low pH ruin a gas heater that we haven't turned on at all? It was hooked up about a week and half ago, but wasn't turned on until today. I only ran it for about an hour before I turned it off. It was turned on a day and a half ago to test it for a few minutes.
Sorry for the double post. I wasn't sure which forum to post in and the second post was much more informative. It's a bit confusing posting the right way at first. Thanks for the merge.
-Heather
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Oh gosh, now I'm a little confused. I posted results with the HTH 6 Way test strips. But what I need is the HTH 6 Way DROPS kit, two different things, right? I'd rather go with the Taylor kit. It will take a little while to order one of those and get it, I'm hoping the kit I have will work for now so I can try to correct this right away.
-Heather
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