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My pool chemical balance is out of wack does any on have trouble with the pool place? |
every time i get it check i always get a differernt answer from the sale poeple for the same problem John gave a quality answer above. Pool stores make money when they sell chemicals and they do this by selling you things you may not need. It isn't intentional sometimes, but the things they sell can really toss your chemicals out of whack. If you have a recent (within the last two days) test done on the water feel free to send the results to me at robandliz1992@yahoo.com and I'll interpret them for you and put you on a maintenance schedule with chemicals you can purchase at your local grocery and hardware stores. These are the exact same chemicals you buy at the pool store, only FAR cheaper and better for you as they are purer. The results I'm looking for are as follows (take a sample to the store if the tests are more than two days old so we get right on what it is): Total chlorine Free chlorine Combined chlorine pH Alkalinity Hardness Cyanuric acid Total dissolved solids Metals Phosphates Don't purchase anything else from the pool store right now unless you can fit a quality test kit into your budget. Taylor makes a great test kit but they are expensive ($50-80 depending on type). The K-2006 Advanced is the best one you can purchase as it will give you all the readings above except for total dissolved solids, metals, and phosphates... which don't have to be checked regularly anyway. If this doesn't fit into your budget I'll point you towards another test kit that you can purchase online that will give you quality results for the chemicals, only fewer can be tested though but they are the important ones. I'll help you break out of the Pool Store Vortex of Expensive Doom (someone I'm currently helping coined that phrase and I love it!) and help you learn how to maintain your pool in a pristine condition without reliance on expensive pool store chemicals when every day substances work as well if not better. Source(s): Registered CPO (Certified Pool Operator) with the National Swimming Pool Federation and maintaining public access swimming pools for many years now. yes, I have the same problem at the place I go. I recommend finding a person you are most comfortable with and then asking for them each time you go. I have had problems with green water in the spring, hard to get cleared up with just chemicals. Two things I have done that help are to really blast it with a lot of liquid chlorine and some clarifier, then when the water clears up enough to see the bottom, vacum the green out to the curb using the waste setting on the pump. Its important to not run the green algae back through the filter as the filter can't trap it effectively enough in that quantity. Also, with any chemical issue, try to get the PH balanced first, as a too high or low PH makes balancing everything else too difficult. |
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