After you add either the Borax or the Washing Soda, you don't have to wait hours and hours before adding more. Just give it a couple or 3 hours and then retest and redose as needed. As Carl, said, you want to get that pH up ASAP!!
Re: Cant seem to raise TA or PH
After you add either the Borax or the Washing Soda, you don't have to wait hours and hours before adding more. Just give it a couple or 3 hours and then retest and redose as needed. As Carl, said, you want to get that pH up ASAP!!
Re: Cant seem to raise TA or PH
The grocery store didnt have the AH Washing Soda and I had two boxes of borax at home. I bought a third and just put all three in and am running the filter and polaris and the pool has turned all milky.
Ill run the filter all night and see what the morning brings and test ph and TA then.
Thank you for the replies.
Last edited by PoolDoc; 03-03-2012 at 10:44 PM. Reason: Picasa
Re: Cant seem to raise TA or PH
OH!!! That is a LOT of Borax added at one time. I hope you don't overshoot your target. It is usually best to add things gradually rather than a huge shot all at one time. Fortunately, your pool is pretty big so hopefully it will put you in range. Please post your testing results in the morning.
BTW -- really nice pool!
Re: Cant seem to raise TA or PH
Usually, I'm the pessimist and 'Mom is the optimist, but in this case, with your volume and super-low pH, I think all three boxes will be needed. Testing tomorrow will tell!
Carl
Re: Cant seem to raise TA or PH
Ok the ph is 8.2 , TA is 60 and there is a lot of undissolved Borax on the bottom and the filter pressure is maxed out. I turned oin the polaris so now I am just mixing up that undissolved Borax but I will need to clean the filter now. Obvioulsy with all that undissolved borax it is very milky now also.
On the steps there is a lt blue precipitate looking deposit. This is a new liner, is this borax doing anything to the liner?
What now do you think?
Re: Cant seem to raise TA or PH
Here is the rinsed off DE from the filter and I would say that that is liner color!! This isn't good.
I dont have a circulate valve on my filter so I left the element out and have the filter running in basically circulate mode now.
Last edited by PoolDoc; 03-03-2012 at 10:45 PM. Reason: Picasa
Re: Cant seem to raise TA or PH
Unfortunately, this is another testiment to the truth of don't do too much too fast. I was afraid that adding that much Borax was gonna overshoot your target. It is always best to go slow with additions of anything. Several small additons that gradually get to a target are most always better than one huge addition. Fortunately, pH of 8.2 is not a dangerous thing and can be easily remedied with the use of some muriatic acid. I would suggest adding some baking soda first however to raise your alk up some before adding any acid.
I've never seen Borax damage a liner, so not sure what to say about that or even that it is actually is from the Borax.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks