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It's my understanding that CH isn't as big of a thing to monitor in fiberglass pools. Both my installer and a company I had test my water at the beginning on a spectrometer. Is that correct? It tested today at 150ppm and Pool Math says the "ideal range" is 350-550. I haven't done anything for...

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Just a general question, no specifics. Can CYA increase without adding anything to the water? Or does a CYA "increase" without chemicals just exhibit an error with the testing? I know the CYA testing is somewhat the most "subjective" (when exactly does the black dot disappear?), so if you...

That's what I was kind of getting at: Is it as simple as the water flow really just isn't enough at 1800rpm or it SHOULD be running at 1800rpm so something else must be going on. No one has jumped in to say that 1800rpm should be enough, so it must not be. I'll ramp up the RPM when I need to...

Quick post: My heater is saying that the water flow rate is too low to operate when my pump is running at 1800rpm. The max on it is 3450rpm. Filter doesn't need cleaned out. Pump is a good 50 feet (maybe more) from the skimmer. Any thoughts? Thanks!

So I have concrete streaks and a film from the sticky stuff that the concrete forms had on them all around the edge of my pool. I bought the standard Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, but it didn't do anything. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Tested today as my son is having friends over on Saturday. If I need to add any chemicals, I wanted to do it today. pH - 7.8 FC - 5.5 CC - 0 TC - 5.5 Calcium Hardness - 200 Total Alkalinity - 100 CYA - 50 Salt - 3400 Water Temp - 72 degrees Pool Math is recommending 30 lbs of Calcium Chloride...

The temperature was at 78 degrees when I was out there a few minutes ago and the low salt light was on.

No worries! I appreciate all of the help and feedback!

What production rate (not sure if that's the right term) should my SWG be on? Right now it's only at 2% because my chlorine had been high (much higher than the 7.5ppm it's at currently).

My testing kit showed 3400 ppm (assuming that I'm doing it correctly, haha). The SWG does have the Red light on indicating that the salt level is low.

Thanks to everyone for the help. Signature has been updated and completed the rest of the items for setting up my account. So, where does that leave me, haha? Don't trust the SWG Manual it sounds like. Chlorine and CYA are fine for right now. So I'm just adding some salt to bring that up to...

My SWG Manual recommends 2.0 to 4.0 ppm and a CYA of 30 - 50 ppm. So they are both high according to the Manual. Also, I'm new.

My SWG is a Pentair Intellichlor IC20. This is what it has for "Optimum Pool Water Chemistry Conditions for Salt Water Pools": Free Chlorine - 2.0 - 4.0 ppm Combined Chlorine - None pH - 7.2 - 7.8 CYA - 30 - 50 ppm TA - 80 - 120 ppm Calcium - 200 - 400 ppm Salt - 3600 - 4500 ppm (ideal 3600 ppm)

Second week of testing and this is where everything stands (using TF-Pro Salt testing kit): pH - 7.8 Salt - 3400 FC - 7.5 (chlorine has been high because I added liquid chlorine last week upon the recommendation of the pool store because we were absolutely inundated with rain and he wanted to...

What does everyone use to protect their floors inside their house? We just had our pools installed and anyone that needs to use the restroom will have to walk through our kitchen to get to the bathroom. The flooring is hardwood that we had installed a few years ago. Wondering if there's any...

My heater showed not enough flow when it was at 1800 RPM speed. I'm guessing that it should run fine at 1800 RPM, which tells me that something else is going on. Any ideas? I appreciate the help!

So my TFP-Pro Salt testing kit came in today and I just took my first crack at testing my water: Salt - 3400ppm pH - 7.8 FC - 21ppm CC - 1ppm Calcium - 100 Alkalinity - 110 CYA - 60 Because of all the rain we're getting and because my chlorine level was so low, I freaked out last night and put...

Appreciate the information! We ordered the TF-Pro Salt testing kit and it was just delivered today. Right now I have my pump on a schedule of 2 hours at 3000RPM; 14 hours at 2400RPM; and 8 hours at 1800RPM... But I just set that schedule up when I was familiarizing myself with the equipment, I...

Ha, should've thought of this but I didn't. Thanks for the heads up. Brushed it all until it looked like it had all dissolved. We put the robot in as well, which we had been wanting to do anyway to clean up some lingering sediment from the install process. Thanks!

Brand new, first time pool owner in Southeastern Indiana. Wife and kids are very excited! Been feeling overwhelmed this week, but this site has been a godsend already. Thanks for that! Specs - Thursday Pools - Aspen 16'x40' (fiberglass) - 13,090 gallons (appx.) Pentair system - CC150...

Just had our pool installed last month and all of the equipment was fired up Monday. This website and the forums have already been a blessing! Looking to get some guidance. Specs - Thursday Pools - Aspen 16'x40' (fiberglass) - 13,090 gallons (appx.) Pentair system - CC150 filter; Superflo...