Use Muriatic acid or Alkalinity minus to get your akalinity in line. It should be around 100 ppm. Caution this will also bring your pH down to. Then use 20 mule team borax that you can buy at any grocery store in the soap asle to raise the pH. This wont afect your alkalinity. Good Luck
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First you should find where your pool water Total Alkalinity SHOULD be (depends on total hardness of the water) and then adjust the TA. Then adjust pH. E-mail me for full instructions.
Add more muriatic acid and re-test the water about 20 minutes after the circulation has moved the water some.
add the appropriate amount of the correct acid product
there are two primary chemicals on the merket used to do this. 1.) soda ash usually packaged under the name pH rise or pH increaser. 2.)sodium bicarbonate usually packaged under the name alkalinity rise or alkalinity increaser. both of the above chemicals will increase both the pH and Alkalinity of the swimming pool water. always make sure your alkalinity is balanced before making any pH adjustment. it is also important to understand pH and alkalinity always move together and in the same direction. so a pH adjustment will cause a change in your alkalinity level the same way a alkalinity adjustment will cause a change in your pH. when you increase pH, alkalinity will also increase when you decrease pH, alkalinity will also decrease when you raise alkalinity, pH will also rise. always dose chemicals according to the directions on the chemical container and the volume of water you are treating.
pH is a measure of acidity or alkalinity of a solution.
pH paper or a pH probe
223 - 145 = 78
High alkalinity
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pH and Alkalinity/Acidity are functions of each other. pH's above 7.0 are considered alkaline and pH's below 7.0 are considered acidic. So reducing the alkalinity will by it's very nature reduce the pH of the pool.
No. Alkalinity neutralize the acids. Based on how much you put in, will cause a reduction in your pH levels.
Alkalinity readings for your pool is quite essential. When you increase your alkalinity, that makes it so your pH is more resistant to change due to weather, leaves etc
1. M-Alkalinity (also known as Total Alkalinity) measures the amount of carbonate, bicarbonate and hydroxide present in terms of "ppm as calcium carbonate". ( M-Alkalinity measurement is based on a sulphuric acid titration using a Methyl orange indicator that goes from yellow at a pH of 4.5 to orange at pH of 4.4 at the endpoint.) 2. P-Alkalinity measures the amount of carbonate and hydroxyl alkalinity present in terms of "ppm as calcium carbonate". P-alkalinity is measured down to a pH of 8.3. The M-alkalinity is measured down to a pH of 4.3.
pH values are indications of acidity/alkalinity of a solution.