Got the 234s kit, no pool yet so tested my tap water

[GTakacs]

I will have my pool gunited tomorrow or Thursday so I'm a couple of weeks away from having a pool to enjoy. In the meantime I have figured I'd test my tap water both before and after the water softener.

Before the water softener:
TC - 1
pH - 7.2
TA - 370
CA - 180

After the water softener
TC - 0
pH - 7.5
CA - 0
Salt - 0 (or 200, I got orange on the first drop)

I did not run the other tests as I figured it'd be moot to test for CYA or FC or CC in tap water.

The interesting part is that the pH has risen after the softener and all the chlorine was gone (the softener is supposed to have a chlorine filtering carbon filter in it). My softener uses Potassium salt not Sodium.

My concern from the look of the fill water that I'll be using for my pool is the TA being really high and my CA being low. My builder will start up my pool which I hope will include getting it balanced.

In the meantime I might head down to the community pool and test the water just for fun :-)

[Watermom]

If it were my pool, I'd get it balanced myself and not let a builder put stuff into my pool. If you need help getting it started, there are lots of people here who can help!

[VOLDADDY]

LOL. Isn't it like being a kid at Christmas again GT? My new kit is scheduled to be here on Thursday!! It would be interesting to test my tap water plain, then with the Pur filter turned on, then the filtered water out of my fridge, then Dasani or Aquafina and some of the so called spring waters. I have too much time on my hands now that I subscribe to the BBB method and no longer fight algae daily with Baquacil shock, sanitizer and algistat, pink treat, constant brushing and vac'ing, etc...