New IG vinyl liner - initial results

[Zaphod]

Carl D:

The pool came with chlorinator/feeder that takes pucks. The previous owner had a leftover supply of pucks, so I'll use that to get my CYA - unless it makes more sense to just buy it and use it straight.

Thanks for the advice. It's great that everyone is so willing to share their knowledge.

The pool came with the house we bought last year. It's the first time I've ever maintained a pool.

Most of my knowledge has come from the discussions on this site. I relied on a pool service for about six weeks last year, just to understand how my system worked. I supplemented that by reading here.

Again, thanks for looking at my numbers.

[aylad]

Carl's got you on the right track, and my kudos too, for doing your homework. The only piece of advice I'd add would be to add a small amount of straight stabilizer (maybe enough of a dose for 10-20 ppm?) as kind of a "loading dose", then let your pucks bring it up to where you want it. The problem is that it will take several weeks before the pucks are able to put enough CYA in the water to actually hold a chlorine residual.

Janet

[CarlD]

I didn't realize you had an in-line chlorinator. Use that instead, of course, but watch your CYA.

[mbar]

I have an in-line feeder too, and I only use it when I am going to be away. I like to start my pool off with a cya of 30, so that when I use the pucks I don't worry about the cya getting too high. It is nice to have as a back-up, but otherwise I use bleach. I also use cal-hypo shock to bring up my calcium, which I keep at about 125 in my fiberglass pool.

[Zaphod]

In fact, I'm heading out this weekend, so I've dropped a couple of pucks into the feeder to keep things going while I'm away. Hopefully, things will not have gotten too far out of hand by the time I get back.

This morning:

ph - 7.5 (started at 7.2, but trying to maintain 7.5)
alk - 80 (trying to adjust to about 100)
fc - 6 ppm
cc - 0
tc - 0
cya - 0 (but trying to adjust to 25-30)
h20 temp - 70 degrees (pool is 3/4 in the shade)


Happy Memorial Day weekend!