Alkalinity?

[duraleigh]

Jennie and "Doc",

You each get a Gold Star!! IMHO, lowering alk thru aeration is a high level of understanding how your pool chemistry works. I cannot tell you how long it will take.....there's lots of variables perhaps most importantly how agressive you can get with aeration. HD/Lowe's has muriatic in the paint section.....pricey, tho.

Doc, you can dilute your pool test water by 1/2 with distilled. The Cl test will then double in value. (reading of 4 means you've got 8ppm) You could even dilute it by thirds and should be able to test reasonably well up to 15ppm. Ben's kit will remove any remaining unhappiness in your pool life!!

I'm pretty sure Ben has a sticky posted at the top of the "alkalinity" forum called "Step-by-step....." Check it out.

[savdoc2]

I did read the sticky on how to lower alkalinity and that is what I am following.

A quick question about the liquid muratic acid: Is there an equivalency between liquid muratic acid and the dry acid? In other words, how much muratic acid should I add at each time?

[aylad]

I think you'll find that it takes less muriatic acid than dry to get the job done, but there's not really an equivalency between the two....just add enough muriatic acid to get your pH down to the 7.0 - 7.2 range. mwsmith has a calculator at this link http://www.hal-pc.org/~mwsmith2/BleachCalc262.exe
that can help you figure out how much to add, based on your current pH.

Janet