Pool store advice to lower alkalinity - three day muriatic acid dose method

[CarlD]

IMHO, you are nit-picking and I don't see anything constructive coming out of this.

I leave it to Ben to come forward and correct me if I have deviated from his procedure in any SUBSTANTIVE way. I have no qualms with him correcting any incorrect assertions I make.

Ben warns people not to deviate from his procedure because a RANDOM deviation, without understanding what is going on, will result in your alk not being lowered.

We have discussed and advised the ratcheting method many times as a revised version of Ben's original method.

Whether you think his method is simple or difficult is simply from your perspective, not from mine which includes lots of questions from our members. If you don't find it difficult, all power to you, but for those who do, I will continue to recommend the ratcheting method.

Ben's breakthrough was to completely discredit ALL the pool store methods for lowering alkalinity as nothing more than bad chemistry and to propose a method that is based on the actual chemistry of pH and alkalinity, a method that can and does predictably work.

The ratcheting method is NOTHING MORE than a refinement of Ben's breakthrough method, relying completely on the same good chemistry he pioneered.

It's nothing more than that.....

And this thread is closed!

If you wish to continue this discussion you may start a thread in the China Shop--that's where we can argue with greater lattitude.