The Pool Store:

I second Watermom's request. We do NOT recommend copper products, we do NOT recommend the "column" method of adding Muriatic Acid, and we recommend a far wider and more flexible range of T/A adjusting to individual conditions.

This is based on many years of experience by our entire support team and many of our long time members. None of us are new to the game. We also have the chemistry science as well as empirical evidence to support these recommendations.

Meanwhile, you are correct about the volume of the pool being critical. It CAN be difficult to estimate the volume, but we don't take away the 1000 gallons because we recommend the height measured being the height of the water--but that's pretty much the same thing. It takes a good bit of solid geometry to get an accurate measurement if the pool isn't a simple box. On larger pools, it doesn't really matter if you estimate 19,000 or 20,000 gallons, because it won't affect the amounts of chems you add. But you do need to be in the ballpark.

You WILL need to add your commercial affiliation to your signature as per our AUP.

For example, one of our support team, PoolSean, has the following sig ALWAYS appear:
"Sean Assam
Commercial Product Sales Manager - AquaCal AutoPilot Inc. Mobile: 954-325-3859
e-mail: sean@teamhorner.com --- www.autopilot.com - www.aquacal.com "