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You can (soda ash is used to adjust PH) but your pool supply store may have a cheaper alternative.

I used "Alkalinity Increaser" for a year or two until I noticed that the sole ingredient is baking soda. I have heard since that the only difference is that the kind you buy in the grocery store is finer than the pool version (which is good because it's easier to dissolve). I also buy my baking soda at a wholesale club, where it costs a fraction of "Alkalinity Increaser" at a pool store.

I agree. I needed to add 25 pounds of pH plus to my pool. At the pool supply it was $12.50 for 4 pounds. At my local Dollar General, it was 50 cents a pound. True, I had to buy 25 boxes but my son had fun ripping them open and throwing the baking soda all over the pool! It usually dissolved before it hit the bottom!

I am told by my local pool, expert that using baking soda in place of 1 or 2 pounds of Alkalinity Up is OK but for larger amounts, it may make the water cloudy because baking soda has larger granules than Alkalinity Up.

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Baking Soda (sodium bicarbonate) is used to slightly raise pH but more often to raise alkalinity. Ideal range is between 80-120. Baking soda will only raise the pH so much. Dense soda ash raises pH only and is more "powerful" and is used to raise pH when alkalinity is at a correct level.

In otherwords. Balance alkalinity first then if pH is still low raise it with Soda Ash.

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Baking soda is also sodium bicarbonate. it raises alkalinty and pH balance of the pool water.

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Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate and can be used to directly increase the total alkalinity in pool water. It can also indirectly increase pH slightly.

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Yes, to raise total alkalinity. It will not raise pH

Total alkalinity (TA) is a buffer for pH.

the higher the TA in a pool the harder it is to get the pH to move.

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