This is interesting, I find that my ph lowers after rain? Also if rain has an affect on pool water, do you normally adjust based off your initial readings or do you typically wait a week for water to normalize? I’d be worried that if I adjusted chems directly after rain, that the following week I’d see major changes? Hey you’re one of the only dudes on here that gets deep into chemistry, lsi etc. do you test orp readings? And if so are you doing that weekly? Do you sell automation or are you using a digital scale. Oliver the last two years I’ve really dialed back to minimal tabs, dichlor, etc and been using only liquids. My goal is to reduce cya levels which has dropped now to except able levels of 30-50. Anyway just curious on how you run hour tests like lsi, orp, calcium, etc on a service route. Like I feel as if I have very little time to get to these weekly.
If you need to adjust Chems after a rain go ahead. Weekly testing for me is Chlorine, pH and Alkalinity. CH I'll test every couple months BC it won't change that fast. Heavy rains are good BC they lower high CH levels or CYA levels. For Chlorine pools a 60 to 70 CYA level is better during the summer months. It takes 10 ppm CYA to protect 1 ppm of Chlorine.
This is interesting, I find that my ph lowers after rain? Also if rain has an affect on pool water, do you normally adjust based off your initial readings or do you typically wait a week for water to normalize? I’d be worried that if I adjusted chems directly after rain, that the following week I’d see major changes? Hey you’re one of the only dudes on here that gets deep into chemistry, lsi etc. do you test orp readings? And if so are you doing that weekly? Do you sell automation or are you using a digital scale. Oliver the last two years I’ve really dialed back to minimal tabs, dichlor, etc and been using only liquids. My goal is to reduce cya levels which has dropped now to except able levels of 30-50. Anyway just curious on how you run hour tests like lsi, orp, calcium, etc on a service route. Like I feel as if I have very little time to get to these weekly.
If you need to adjust Chems after a rain go ahead. Weekly testing for me is Chlorine, pH and Alkalinity. CH I'll test every couple months BC it won't change that fast. Heavy rains are good BC they lower high CH levels or CYA levels. For Chlorine pools a 60 to 70 CYA level is better during the summer months. It takes 10 ppm CYA to protect 1 ppm of Chlorine.
Swimming Pool Chemistry Done Right your the man dude. Are you ever doing LSI readings? Or do you install or use an ORP meter?