Okay...I've spent close to $700 in the last 2 months just getting my pool balanced and get rid of the green algae. I'm almost there and my pool is blue again I'm a new pool owner and learning as I go along. I've floc'd, vacuumed to waste, algaecide'd, sodium hydrogen carbonated, shocked...etc.
After my bank account has been depleted from purchasing all the expensive chemicals...I'm finding out the following:
1. Use muriatic acid to lower the pH
2. Use baking soda instead of buying sodium hydrogen carbonate ($.50/lb vs. $1.50/lb)
My question...what other substitutions can I use to save more money?
Also, I see that sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) raises alkalinity and muriatic lowers alkalinity and lowers pH. Doesn't this create a flip-flop between high alkalinity and lower pH and vice versa? I dunno...I just want to learn how to NOT spend all my money at the pool supply store on overpriced chemicals.
Thanks for any help and for letting me vent!
Where do I start??
Where do I start??
Check out the BBB forum threads
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- Pool Industry Leader
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Where do I start??
And also read the Pool School.
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Where do I start??
chem geek wrote:And also read the Pool School.
What these guys are really saying here is :Read the books already written for the very purpose.
There is hardly room here, to write them again, and hardly justified.
To be a little blunt: This is not how you do your homework.
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