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The next step after taking the cover off the pool and getting the filter running is adding the chemicals. Now I own and can operate that nifty little pool water tester kit but that is more of a maintenence tool. At the beginning of the year, when I open the pool, I scoop up a bottle full of yucky pool water and take it to our friendly, neighborhood pool place. They take the bottle of yucky pool water (what they call "the sample") and take it behind this little desk (what they call "the lab"). They process "the sample" through a number of tests and then enter the results in a computer (which they call "the computer"). Then "the computer" spits out a list of the procedures and incredibly expensive materials to you, the pool owner (whom they call "the pigeon").
Here are some of the problems that "the computer" has discovered about our pool water:
Your pool water contains copper and/or iron.
Your cyanuric acid level is too low
You Calcium Hardness is low
Now I don't want to expose my family and friends to coppery or irony (possibly hyperbole though) water. And what man would deny his fammily all the cyanuric acid they could swim in? And I don't think I need to explain the need for Calcium Hardness (mmmmm, hardness). Also I wonder why Calcium Hardness was so important that "the copmuter" felt it needed to be capitalized. So what choice did I have? I took my list and a shopping cart and I started loading in boxes, bottles and buckets of various chemicals that will make my pool water sparkle and my bank account empty. Wheee.
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