How to Know When You Need To Change Your Pool Water
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- What's the best way to know when it's time to change your pool water? It's actually quite simple and in this video I'll show you what you need to know.
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Hello Kenny, I have watched most of your videos and they are great. I just changed my pool water per your instructions. All worked out well. I bought the correct chemicals also per your suggestions. Again all is now well. Question: it is time to change cartridge filters in my Pentair CC 420. Too many choices online. Any suggestions as to which brand is best? Way too many no name brands. cheap is not always good. Thanks again for great instruction, Roger Phoenix, AZ
Hello Roger, thank you for watching my videos, hopefully you subscribe to my channel and will share it with others as well, and thank you for your comments. Regarding cartridge filters, my top three, not necessarily in order of favorites, would be Pentair’s clean and clear, the Hayward cartridge filters and stay right cartridge filters as of late I’ve started to become a fan of the state right cartridge filters. I have several clients that have them and they seem to do a really good job of filtering and I think they are a little bit easier to clean because they have a large outer cartridge and then a smaller inner cartridge so you only have to clean the two. But any one of those three would be recommended. Hope that helps.
@@PoolSchooler Thank you very much,
CYA controls your pool. So you need to control your CYA. The best way to do that is to use liquid chlorine and separate CYA. Using stabilized chlorine will eventually cause your CYA to get too high. Before I understood pool chemistry I had a pool girl who did not. She let the stabilizer level go off the charts by dumping more and more stabilized chlorine in to the pool. So the chlorine went to zero, and I had a green pool. I learned pool chemistry and took over. Now I keep my stabilizer level rock solid at 30 ppm by using separate stabilizer and liquid chlorine. Pool never looked better!
As I’ve said, before, I totally agree that liquid chlorine is the best type of chlorine to use, however, that also requires you to test your chlorine levels. Much more frequently, in the case of Arizona summers, that’s daily, and a lot of people will be willing to give up that extra cyanuric acid, for the convenience of not having to test and add chlorine on a daily basis. Especially with everyone’s busy schedules. As a pool service provider, it’s impossible to use liquid chlorine when you service your clients pools once a week.
@@PoolSchooler Good to know. My comments were directed at the group as informational, for those who do their own chemistry. You know all about these things of course. But for the viewers, if you do your own chemistry, just be aware how CYA can get up out of control. Unlike some other chemicals, it doesn’t break down. The level just goes up as you add more stabilized chlorine.
@@mguerramd so very true. I appreciate that. Yes if you’re able to test your water daily the. Liquid chlorine is absolutely the way to go.
So thankful to have your educational videos. And what a total plus to know that you are in Arizona!! It's a whole different ball game out here. You have helped me SO much with learning how to do my own pool. You are awesome!!!
So glad the videos/channel has been helpful. Hope you subscribed and share my channel with your friends. And thanks for watching.
With as bad as las vegas water is, i'd be changing every 6 months.
Our AZ water is really REALLY hard has lots of calcium in it but calcium is not the reason to change water. The main (and in my experience the only one is high CYA (over 200-300 ppm). Unless you have so many chemicals in your pool you just need to get rid of it.
Doesn't cya build up when you use stabilizer or chlorine tablets? Why not just stop using the stuff that raises cya so that it never gets that high?
To clarify stabilizer is CYA and most chlorine tablets are “stabilized” meaning they have CYA in them. And you are correct it will slowly build up in a pool, but if you start with your CYA levels at the end which is about 30 ppm it takes about five years for the CYA levels to get to a the water needs to be changed and that’s on Arizona climate and chlorine use. The only way to avoid it is to use unstabilized chlorine tablets, which are typically three times more expensive and are very hard to find or one can use liquid chlorine, but because it evaporates much quicker a person would probably have to test and add chlorine on a daily basis. So for convenience, pool service, pros, and a lot of homeowners, use the stabilized chlorine tablets because they’re more convenient and just deal with the ramifications of that. So unfortunately, it is a trade-off.
How often do you run your clients pumps in the winter and at what speed? I’m in Wickenburg new to pools…
I did a video on that, depending on the type of pump and motor this video should help (it's pretty short): ua-cam.com/video/RRAHlbfYjwg/v-deo.html
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Short of changing the water is there no other way to lower the CYA? Thanks.
I have only heard of one product from my suppliers that supposedly can reduce the CYA in pools, but I am not a fan of adding even more chemicals to pools since people bathe in that water, and their skin absorbs all those chemicals. From what I heard from my suppliers is that the product doesn’t work very well. the key to keeping your CYA levels low is to not overdose it with stabilizer/conditioner/CYA. When you do your start up with fresh water, keep those levels at the lowest end of ideal and that will allow you to not get those levels too high to quickly
I've moved to a diy liquid chlorine system. Tabs have cya so there is no way not to accumulate cya when using them.
That’s a great thing that you did. You are correct there are some chlorine tablets that don’t have CYA but they are hard to find and very very expensive. I’d be interested in what DIY liquid chlorine system you’re using
@@PoolSchooler it's a peristaltic pump off Amazon and a 2.5 gallon simple green jug that holds my chlorine. My setup runs off a raspberry pi but there are a bunch of options as far as timers go. For tubing regular clear stuff from home Depot is holding up.
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@@polskifacet Thanks for the email. It's very cool.
Does CYA go up over time? I have never changed my 13 year old pool water. I’m in the tropics so I have a decent amount of evaporation. Add fresh water every couple days.
Pool has always been good. Not ultra clear anymore. Cleaned twice a week.
If you're not using stabilized chlorine tablets (or stabilized chlorine) it probably isn't going up much. I'd still check it annually to be sure.
So Cyanuric acid is the "only" metric to gauge whether water need to be changed? What about Total dissolved solids TDS?
Using TDS as a gauge to when to change your water is a bit controversial. According to general knowledge they say that TDS should be under 2,000ppm. However in the case of salt systems for example the typical ideal salt level is 3,200 to 3,400 ppm. And salt makes up a total dissolved solid in pool water. So just that skews the conventional idea. That is just one example of TDS not being a good idea as a measuring stick for when to change you water. This video may help: ua-cam.com/video/fHgnS-jOsDQ/v-deo.html
Can I replace a T3 hayward cell with a T15 cell?
This video will answer that question more thoroughly. ua-cam.com/video/ecRz6tsFxCA/v-deo.html
Do you need to empty all the water or can I do it half way
Ultimately, I would recommend replacing all of the water in the pool. Especially if your cyanuric acid levels are very high. And then make sure when you refill the pool and add the start of chemicals you don’t over add cyanuric acid or you’ll be back to square one with too much of that in your pool. So keep that level at the very lowest end of the ideal range when you add your start up chemicals, don’t add too much at one time add a little bit, test it after an hour or so and repeat that until you get your CYA levels at the lower end of the ideal range
thanks for the video. what is the actual danger of high CYA, my pool 8500 gals, can not be drained since its fiberglass. our CYA starts off in ideal range then gets high at the end of season.
When my CYA got high I experienced a chlorine lock. I have had to backwash frequently and utilize non stabilized tabs until it went down. Listening to this video I could also have a sand filter that needs to be changed out as I have only been in this house since 5/2020 so I have no idea how old the sand is. I too am in AZ. Tucson to be exact.
It might be the stabilized chorine tablets (if you use them). They do add a bit of CYA overtime. Two thoughts - 1. When you drain and refill your pool DON'T OVER DOSE IT WITH CYA. This is a common mistake. You want to add enough to have the CYA levels at the low end of "ok" which would be 30ppm. 2. Consider using liquid chlorine, it's not as convenient and you do need to test and add it to your water daily if not every other day, but liquid chlorine doesn't have cya in it.