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Our pool was replastered 5 days ago and I've been brushing twice a day, and keeping the FC around 5. Our Crepe Myrtles are blooming like crazy right now and some of the little "seeds" blew into the pool and stained the new plaster. These stains always went away in time on the old plaster by raising the FC up a little higher. However, with the new plaster I'm afraid to raise the FC up too much. Any ideas on what to do? I tried brushing them off but they stains will not budge. Will they fade with time? Thanks.............

Yes, I'm using the Taylor FAS-DPD test with the 25ml sample. I guess I'm wasting reagents doing that so I'll switch to the 10ml sample. Thanks for the advice on the tricholor tabs. I thought they would work well to add the CYA, but I didn't want to blow myself up using both tricholor and bleach. I'll just use the tricholor for now and turn my liquidator off I think. I'm aerating now since the ph is low and the TA high. Trying to get it to below 100 like you recommended. Not sure if it will work as it normally does with this new plaster throwing things off.

I had some plaster issues on my 2 year old pool and the pool company just replastered it while I was on vacation. I had no idea they were going to do it while I was gone, but they did. My pool company is kind of crazy, IMO. I tested the water this am and got these results: FC 3.2 TA 120 CH 100 PH 7.0 CYA 0 I spoke with the pool guy briefly on the phone last night and he said to brush the plaster 2x daily and to keep the FC low. I use bleach for chlorine. Any reason to keep the FC low with new plaster? Is there anything else I should do? The CH looks low according to my Taylor book-- should be at least 150 I think, unless it is different with new pool plaster. I don't want to screw up this new plaster. Also, how do I get my CYA up to around 70? I live in a very hot sunny climate and don't think the cya of 0 is going to work too well. I have some left over tricholor tabs that would add cya, but can I use those since I'm using bleach? Thanks for the help! '

Thanks Chem Geek! I'm almost done with my second refill and will retest after I let the pump run for a few hours. An additional question-- is it cheaper to bite the bullet and convert to a swcg in the long run? Can I get a good one for $1000 or under? What's involved in converting?

Hey, my name is Bill. I've had pools for about 10 years but never really knew what I was doing. I got away with that on my last, smaller pool, but now I have a 45000 gallon gunite pool and it's killing me. I'm in south Tx. and temps in the summer regularly get to 100, and the pool is in direct sunlight. I had a hard time keeping enough FC last summer, and after reading this forum I've decided it was my high CYA causing the problem. Have been a tricolor puck chucker for years. I bought the Taylor test kit to start to do more accurate testing, but could not really get what I thought was an accurate measure on the CYA-- my test did not even come close to the 100 mark. Took a sample to Leslies and the guy confirmed the CYA was over 100, but said he wasnt sure of exact measure. I decided to just go ahead and do a partial drain and refill, and after filling i retested for CYA and it still did not make it to 100. Frustrated, I took it to another pool store and the lady tested CYA at 132 using some kind of computer thing. I told her I was trying to get the cya to 60-70 and she asked why, said my range was fine as long as it is between 30-200. Really??? So, I guess I need some help reading the cya test on my k-2006. I'm switching to bleach chlorination, and I'm going to try the Liquidator chlorinator in the bigger 8 gallon size to make it more automated since I'm gone in the summer quite a bit. I'm also in the middle of my second drain and refill in a few days, so hopefully that will get my CYA under 100 at least. What should my CYA be? Should it be a little higher since I live in a very hot and sunny area? What should my FC levels be with a pool this size. I've had troubles of late with algae blooms. Thanks in advance for any help yall can give me.............