Hi, all,
Hopefully someone can help me...I think I have the HTH 5 way kit here (It says Poolife, with hth in the upper corner). My water is still very cloudy (white), though possibly arguably improved. Or maybe not.
Last night I put in 3 gal. of 6% Clorox, which gave me the highest possible reading (3) on my old OTO kit, which held till morning.
At 2 p.m. the new kit results are:
FC 5 (adjusts to 6 using the 1 part pool water/2 parts bottled water method)
TC 5 (same)(6)
CC 0
pH 7.3 or 7.4
TA 210 (to compare, the test strip said 150)
TH ???? was blue at the outset (said it would be red if hardness was present, then do drop count till it turned blue)
CYA ??? Less then 30, since the black dot was still visible at the 30 line, but disappeared a few mm later at the very top.
I know this is still imprecise. The water is cloudy, but not at all greenish, only white. I have read about lowering the pH then aerating, but I'm not sure how to proceed. I have 1.75 lbs. of CYA on hand, 2 gal. of 12% and 1.5 gal. of 6% bleach on hand. I've not been able to get through to the BleachCalc...the link is "not found".
AG vinyl pool, 15X30, pool store says 13,300 gallons. Using the lengthXwidthXdepthX5.9 formula for ovals, I get closer to 11,000 gallons, which could be part of my problem.
Carl, Waterbear, Watermom, anyone...help!
Thanks in advance,
Tammy (if you read my previous post on Calcium Preciptates, you'll get my background)![]()
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