Chlorine will not hold

[wposton84]

I'm not sure I would consider myself "in the industry", but I do care for two pools: my own and a friend's. I will gladly identify myself if those are the rules.

I assume this can be included in my signature, what should I say, exactly?

[Watermom]

If that is all you do besides your own pool is care for one friend's pool, then don't worry about it. I thought that might be your job. Never mind, and again, glad to have you as part of our forum. Hope you will find a lot of good information here that can help you!

[wposton84]

Thank you so much for the advise and the welcoming attitude.

It's nice to know there are some knowledgeable people not trying to sell me a myriad of chemicals.

Do you recommend a specific test kit for checking chemicals? There is one model that seems to keep popping up in my searches and I was wondering if it was your kit of choice as well.

[CarlD]

Yeah, A really good one is the Taylor K-2006 or K-2006C, both from Taylortechnologies.com

Equivalent is the FAS-DPD Service Test Kit from Leslies on-line service.

Search out Chem_geek's recent post--he had a link to the Taylor at a great price. Expect to pay $50-$80 for the kit and it will pay you back 100x over! I have something like 3 versions of it in various forms.

[AnnaK]

At www.amantoind.com you can get the Taylor K2006 for $46.25, product #13633.

The 2006 is the basic kit with .75 oz size reagent bottles. The 2006C is the same kit with 2 oz size bottles. This supplier also sells Taylor refills in a variety of sizes at good prices. I've found it very cost effective to buy the basic 2006 and stock up with larger sizes of DPD powder, titrating reagent, and CYA testing solution, all of which I keep in the beer and wine refrigerator (not to be confused with the Yuengling Lager! )

[Heavyhook]

Thanks for all the input you'll post here. In reference to the Taylor 2006c kit, I myself purchased a Taylor 2005C kit a few months ago , which also has the 2 oz size bottles of testing chemicals . Mine does not have any kind of powder included with the other items. Everythings in liquid form. What is DPD and should that be something I need to add to mine? I also purchased some Borate test strips to use when I added borax to my pool a couple of weeks ago.
Again thanks to all the moderators for taking time out of their lives to help guide us who are beginners at this stuff! Doug

[Watermom]

FAS-DPD chlorine testing allows you to test higher chlorine levels than most other kits can. If you have already bought the K-2005, you can buy the K-1515. This will give you the additional test (FAS-DPD) that the K-2006 has. It comes in two sizes -- the K-1515A has 0.75 oz. reagent bottles and the 1515C has 2-oz. reagent bottles. Both kits have the same 10g. size bottle of powder.