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Hey. Thank you again for all your help getting my CHLORINE pool up and running!!!

My pool is doing well. I did a little more ascorbic acid scrubbing on the stairs and they look good. My CYA is not yet at 30 but it's closer than my post last week. I have hardly had to add any dichlor so it's a slow-go to raise CYA...with a broken heater it's too cold to swim much.)

I still want to add borates. Since I'm not sure when you were going to recommend that, I went ahead and did a metals bucket test. (I only did pool water at this point as I only wanted to buy one bucket. I will test my fill water after I am done with the pool water. I haven't had to use the hose to fill.)

Anyway, here are my results:

6.) Wait 15 minutes, and note any color change. None

10.) After 24 hours, inspect. Note clarity, color and sediment, if any visible Still clear, no color, no sediment

11.) After 24 *more* hours, inspect. Note clarity, color and sediment, if any visible Still clear, no color, no sediment. I even put my arm in there and swiped the bottom of the bucket and it is squeaky clean.

12.) Test both buckets for chlorine levels with OTO. You should not get a 'normal' reading, but report resultant color. Color with OTO was weird. It was kind of clear in the background with orange-red specks floating in it. I shook it vigorously and the background did turn orange-ish but the specks never disappeared. I think the background would have returned to clear after shaking but the fumes started to bother me so I pitched the sample.

I am now waiting the additional three days as per: 14.) Recover the buckets, and wait 3 days, and check again.