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    With my drops kit my Ph looks to be at 6.8 right now. What should I do? Can I add some borax tomorrow?

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    No, just leave it there, it won't hurt overnight, and it will help to get rid of the stains. You can take your ph up tomorrow using borax if the stains are gone. Let me know.
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    Thanks for all of yoru help. I will post tomorrow as to the condition of the stains and go from there. I placed an order from the chemistry store for 2# of ascorbic acid. They are a 2 hour drive from here and I would go pick it up if I had the time but it's just impossible since I am the single mom of an almost 2 year old. At any rate it shouldn't take long for it to get here since they are so close. If I still have stains we can try again. I'm determined to have a sparkling pool!!!!

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    You will, you may have a sparkling pool today - let me know - sometimes it takes the low ph to take off the remaining stain. Keep the filter running.
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    Today I have pretty clear water still but some staining remains. It is a whole lot lighter and almost something I could live with, but still a little bit stained and a little streaky. How should I proceed?

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    Hi gerri, I would wait for your order of the ascorbic acid - keep your ph low, and when the ascorbic acid comes add some where you see the stains - let the water circulate for a couple of hours and see if it all come off - make sure there is enough of the sequestering agent in the water. You shouldn't need a lot of the ascorbic acid - but keep adding some with the pump in circulate until all of the stains are gone. Then you will have to reabalance the water again. Keep me informed - you are getting there.
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    Thank you so much for helping me. The pool guy is no help at all and if I had not found this forum I would have just been reduced to living with the stains, which really ruins it for me. It's terrible for everything to look dirty when the water is actually very very clean.

    Ok, hopefully tomorrow my AA will come IF the chemisty store are quick shippers. So it won't hurt keeping my Ph low for this long?

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