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https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ascorbic_Acid_Treatment https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Draining Have a thorough squizz through those and come up with a plan. Happy to discuss further. By the way, welcome to TFP! Good to have you here :)

Yeh hey, there's an article here about the iron treatment. I think I used 800g for mine. It is magical! However, there's an aftermath worth thinking through carefully. I personally think dumping the water is the cheapest thing to do because of the cost of sequestrant. Changing water has other...

If it's the brown discolouration, there's a pretty good chance that's iron. You can use vitamin C to find out. Best is some uncoloured plain ordinary vitamin C tablets (around 10 tablets) crushed up in the end of a sock (or vitamin C powder bought from a health food store). Hold that up against...

Welcome to TFP. Good to have you join us here :-) Probably a longer conversation than you had in mind, but for starters, you're going to need a drop-based test kit. The one we recommend is Clear Choice Labs, which you'll find online. They're out of stock for the salt water option, so buy the...

It never ceases to amaze me that the pool water doesn't fall straight down out of the pool into the sky.

Put the pool toys away in the attic :( Pool looks great and still warm but as the daytime highs get lower, interest wanes quickly! Reduced pump run time to 6 hours, might change it to 4.

Circling back: Calcium Hardness Testing, comparison of Taylor and CCL Simple average of tests below 263 269 New Taylor supplies (Hardness buffer and indicator from Mr Pool Man, titrating reagent from PoolVacParts) New CCL Dedicated Calcium Hardness Test Kit Oldest pool test 1 225...

SWGs here in Sydney run all year (colder water than yours). USA models shut off at certain low temperatures, TBMK around 10 degrees C. Our water barely gets that cold, so I have no idea if our SWGs shut off, but they certainly show low salt indicator lights, their internal sense of current...

kudos to Gene!

I'm starting my testing of testing supplies and I noticed some progress. My old original 4in1 Aussie Gold comparator block shows 7.2-7.4 as "ideal for fibreglass pools" and "7.4 to 7.6 as ideal for concrete pools" The new one just shows one band called "Ideal" at 7.4 to 7.6

I woke up this morning realising I said this wrong for your situation. IIRC, mgtfp mentioned earlier that keeping CSI between 0.0 and -0.3 will help keep your saltwater chlorinator free of scale between the plates inside the salt cell, which is good advice. CSI can be found in the PoolMath app...

That sounds fine to me. I add acid when I see pH of 8.0 and correct to 7.8 and that works out to about once every two weeks in summer. I tend not to need any acid in winter. As sources of info, my experience has been that pool builders and pool stores, on average, are equally misleading and...

Sounds like terminating the 1kg (2.2 lbs) of alkalinity increaser per six weeks is the first step. I would double-check the alkalinity testing, carefully reviewing the method with the CCL kit, and/or for $30 or $35, you could cross check it with an Aussie Gold 4in1 test kit and same caveat on...

This thread has gone a bit off the well-traveled road and into the weeds. Dirk, I think your method is TFPC, at least based on not adding chemicals without a valid reason and based on reliable test results. You have the history of trends and know what can be expected, and it's backed by...

"Bicarb" can arrive in the form of various pool products known as: Buffer; pH Buffer, Alkalinity Increaser; Alkalinity Up; or the commonly used chemical, sodium bicarbonate aka baking soda FWIW because pool and fill water varies, I do four pools and experience a range of 1 quart/~litre to 1.5...