Stain slowly increasing over last three years of owning pool
I have a plaster pool and it is a long story, but to keep it short I have struggled to maintain good chemical balance due to me traveling and my wife not testing chemicals. Anyway so over the three years I have had weird stains develop at the crevise of my pool steps and mostly just on my steps, well earlier this year it started to spread onto the walls like wildfire and I am not even sure it is the same kind of stain as they appear to differ in color.
1. My pool has never tested positive for any metals.
2. I have done two stain test kits (jack's magic and some other one) on my steps.
3. Of the Jacks Magic, I believe Stain solution #1 worked a little, all the others had no affect on the stains on the steps.
4. Because the steps are fairly shallow I have actually poured (used an injection system) Muratic Acid directly on the stain and it appeared to remove the stain, only to see it come back over time.
5. I tried chlorine tab directly on it and had no affect.
5. My last test was this CL: 12 (I know it is high we just had a monsoon that flooded my pool) PH: 7.4 ALK: 90 CH: 200 (it was 290 before the massive rain) CYA: 80 Salt: 3000 I use a K-2005 test kit with additional DFAS-DPD for Chlorine.
I really want to post pictures to show the stains, but the FAQ section wasn't helpful with this, so if anyone can explain how to upload the pictures I would be grateful.
13.5k gal IG pool with SWCG and intelliPH
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