Rick Lee

Thanks so much. Just ordered the Taylor K-2006 test kit. I also took a sample to my local pool store on Sunday. They said my numbers weren't as bad as my test strips suggested, but that they were still high. Unfortunately, he said it's now too hot to drain my plaster pool without risking cracking and I'll just have to live with it until things cool way down.

Total noobie and I've been doing a lot of reading here before posting. I live in Phoenix, just bought a house with a 10k gal. pool that's always in sunlight and hired a pro to help me for the first month. He immediately suggested a drain and refill, which I did. After a filter rebuild, a DE treatment and four weekly service visits, I decided I wanted to handle this on my own going forward. I got the AquaChek 7 test strips, a bunch of stabilizing chlorine tablets and some muriatic acid. I am very concerned about these readings. How can they be so high one month after a drain and refill and one week after my pool guy stopped coming over? Total hardness - 1000 Total chlorine - 10 Free chlorine - 5 pH - 7.8 Total alkalinity - 200 CYA - 150 My pool is only 4.5' deep, so there is a lot of splash and water loss when I swim, which is every day. Am I looking at another drain and refill to get this CYA under control? And what to do about the other readings? Please hold my hand. Thanks.