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The other day before I heard back from anyone , I added 2 cups of acid (what pool math said to add for the target ph I had of 7.2— when I was going to try the aerate method) and next day I checked pH and it had only gone down to 7.7 or 7.8. It just feels like I can never go away /out of town...

That’s the problem. Almost every other day I have to add acid to lower my pH. Loves to stay at 7.9-8.1. Pool is new so I know the first 6 to 12 months pH runs high due to new plaster. But is needing to add acid every other day normal? When can I expect this to level off?

My TA was 90 and pH 8.0/8.1, so I added muriatic acid per pool math to lower TA. How long do I aerate to bring up pH after lowering ? Thanks in advance for any tips.

so do you think my salt level is actually 2800? Do you suggest any other testing? Pool store? The Taylor salt strips were hard to read . The three colors (especially the middle one) didn’t match anything really. Like is said, my automation system reads much higher, at 3500 or 3200 instant...

I did it twice with a magnetic stirrer. The pump has been running for last 2.5 hours . But I took a test and got 14 drops (my first test of the two precious tests was 13 or 14 drops). Here is a video my test so you can see . Feedback ?

So I tested some of my levels since it has been 2 days since I added my additional salt (30 pounds) and the levels are exactly the same or almost. The first time I tested , I did 13 drops and it turned to the salmon color (so 2600 ppm). The second time I did it got only 12 drops (2400 ppm)...

Oh. I have the swg on this morning. Has been running the last 2 hours. Should I turn it off and just add Liq chlorine today then? I added a 30lb amount of the salt last night around 9pm

so I added more salt last night, 30lbs, which was what pool math said to add to achieve 3000ppm. Left my pump running since I added Can I add other chemicals this morning like muriatic acid? Can I add those with the SWCG running? Also need to increase my CYA a little bit but not sure how...

So my FC has been around 5 for a couple of days. I’d like it a little higher so last night I changed/increased the percentage on the Salt cell. My FC went down to 4. Can I run the salt cell for a little bit tonight and then increase percentage tomorrow? I just don’t want to drop anymore on my...

Well my CH still hasn’t gone up. Actually it went down by 25 and is 225. Still think it is going up on its own?or add some CH?

Previously I was told not to add anymore salt if my cell was making adequate chlorine. The Test from pro kit said 2400 for salt . salt cell Says 2900 and my pool is making a lot of chlorine. When I had it running for 4 hours at 30% my chlorine level went up too high. So I do want to add more...

Update: leak fixed and possibly auto-refill maybe fixed. For the paralevel, they added an extender to raise the float. We’ll see if it works .

So my levels are here below. My CH actually went down from the last time I checked it. Previously I was told that there was no need to add any CH as by end of summer it will go up on it’s own, but my levels have stayed between 225-250 since Feb when I added the CH initially given that my first...

Those aren’t the only issues I have had . Had bad pump, issues/overcharges with excavation, skimmer plugged and not working for 1st month of pool, poorly done travertine. All got mostly fixed, but caused a lot of aggravation along the way. So it is common to have lots of issues with newly...

almost everything that could have gone wrong on my pool seems to have happened. My autofill still isn’t fixed but at least the PB thinks they know what is wrong. Said they need to add an extender on the float or the thing it is attached to or something like that. And now today my plumbing...

Gauge pressure at 5 psi at max speed of pump.

Which position do I put the valves for main drain off and skimmer off? Vac handle at 3 and then skimmer handle at 12? When I had skimmer handle at 12 and vac handle at 6 there was no skimming but the vac moved a lot faster . But in that position is the main drain on too?

Gauge pressure is at like 5 on the cartridge filter, so the pressure hasn’t increased (if it is working correctly). So if hasn’t increased is my filter maybe not dirty. I am still going to check though.

I guess I could do that other option, but that would mean every night I would have to manually go out to equipment pad to turn offf my skimmer to run the vacuum. That seems like a pain. And when out of town there wouldn’t be any cleaning the floor. I regret not getting the in floor cleaning if I...

So with vac handle at 3 o’clock (turning off main drain) and skimmed handle at 6 o’clock, I may be having 50/50 to vac and skimmer? In my tests if i had main drain turned off (valve labeled vacuum at 3 o’clock) my vacuum doesn’t move at all basically no matter what position I put the skimmer...

Ok. If the skimmer handle is like at the 5 or 6’ o’clock position what percent is going to each? I guess that is what I am not sure about. Today I have almost no skimmer and vacuum won’t move . I tried turning off the main drain (vacuum handle at 3’oclock) and skimmer handle at various...

so at what clock positions do you recommend I put the two valves? I am not sure understand the drawings. If I have vac valve at 3’oclock position, it turns off the main drain, right? If both valves are at 3 o’clock what percent of output are the vac and skimmer at?

With pump at 50% my cleaner has never worked, but it would work when it was at 75% or 100%. Recently I could only get it to work with pump at 100% and skimmer in off position. I will try turning both vac and skimmer handles to the right . You recommend staring at the 3 o’clock position and then...

The vacuum got faster when I completely turned off the skimmer (skimmer handle pointing straight up and vac straight down and pump on 100%. But even then I wouldn’t say it was too fast. Vacuum wheel RPMs were less than the 11-14 rpms recommended for adequate cleaning (only counted about 9). I...

So I checked the filter pressure and it is like 5. Photo attached. I also took apart the aquqnaut per the trouble shooting directions to see if somehow something was caught in there and it was fine. Checked all the tubes to the cleaner too. The only way I can get the vacuum to move now is...

Yes. I turned them back to where they were. I can check the pressure later when I get home from work. It I wasn’t high when I looked at it yesterday and filter has never been cleaned yet. Pool is less than 3 mo old.