Taylor Pool Water Test Kit, Complete Swimming Pool Water Test Kit, for Chlorine, pH, and Alkaline Levels, Ideal for Pools, Hot Tubs, and Spas, 1-Pack

Terrific product. Takes a little time to get used to with all the instructions. However once you get the hang of it, it is quite easy and very accurate...as far as I know. Well the proof is in the pudding as they say. My hot tub is perfectly balanced since I received this to accurately get all my numbers to the right levels. Strips are great for quick check on Chlorine, but useless for anything else. With this I can accurately get the FC and CC.. CC tells me I need to shock if it is too high. If you never used these kits, like me, I would get the K-2006C since the regents are 2oz. Well worth the extra money. I went through quite a bit just learning to use the test kit. I am almost half gone with the .75oz, and it has only been 1 month. Take a look at the prices for regents (with shipping) and make your own judgement. Either way you cannot go wrong, just feel the 2006C is a better deal. If you have prime you save on shipping on the 2006C...at least for now. Frankly, owning a hot tub, while well worth it, is a lot more work than I thought. This product certainly helps, as the manual also provide plenty of insight into water chemistry.

The test kit is great and easy to use. First: The kit is well organized and color coded. The directions for each test are included on the sample case and color coded to match the appropriate reagent bottle cap. For example, chlorine test is yellow. All the test directions are highlighted in yellow and the corresponding sample reagents have yellow caps. Makes it very nice. Alkalinity is green, pH red, etc. Second: The guide that comes with the kit is great. It does a very good job of explaining the various test parameters without getting too in depth. It includes all the chemical addition tables that correspond to the appropriate test. It even has a few test like "pool owner scenarios" where it gives you the theoretical measured parameters, pool size, etc., and you have to refer to the tables to see how much of the appropriate chemical must be added. Very nice in that it teaches you how to relate what you measured to the chemicals you may or may not need to add. Third: This goes along with the second point, but the chemical addition tables in the booklet provide the necessary information for you to make your own adjustments. Simply follow the test directions and if a parameter is out of range, refer to the corresponding table in the booklet and it will tell you how much chemical you need to add to your pool to achieve the appropriate concentration. Overall I couldn't be happier. I feel like the guess work is finally gone. For the first time in 3 seasons, I actually went to the pool store and instead of them telling me what I needed, I was able to tell them. I bought the appropriate chemical, went home, added the calculated amount based on the test results and corresponding booklet tables, and it worked!!!! Overall this seems like a great product.

Checked against the pool store sample and its close enough. The cool part with this kit is the acid/alkalinity demand option. If either are high/low, you add drops of the demand reagent until the color matches where you want your reading to be. Then you look the drops up on the chart in the back of the book and it tells you how much acid/soda to add based on gallons. It works great. My pool is 26,000 gal so you have to add up the 20, 5 and 1,000 gal amts to get the correct dosage. Or just take the half the 50,000 gal amount. Don't be a slave to the pool store. You can do it yourself.

I gave up using a weekly pool service after hiring and firing three companies over the last 18 months. Your experience may be different but everyone I hired send a tech over who brushed the sides of the pool, dumped in a lot of chlorine and left. Whenever I became suspicious of the water I'd take a sample to a local pool store to find that I really shouldn't be swimming in that water. I used to do my own pool maintenance for a number of years - I didn't really want to take the task on again but I think I'm the only person I can trust. Any pool owner will tell you that brushing the sides and the steps plus cleaning the various filters is the easy part. Keeping the chemicals in balance is the more difficult task. You'll also learn that you can't always trust the pool store analysis. The cynic in me thinks they're just trying to sell me chemicals but it's possible that the tech in the store simply doesn't know much more than I do. I had an old test kit that only tested for pH and chlorine. That's usually enough but I also wanted to check other readings that mattered or at least have a way to confirm what the pool store was telling me. I have to admit that I was a bit intimidated at first with all the tests I can do with this kit. But, with a bit of research and paying attention to the included user manual and just some good old common sense I found it very easy. It's currently winter here in the Phoenix area and while the pool is open no one in their right mind would step foot in it - the water is cold and I'm not going to heat it. Because of the water temperature and the fact that the fired tech had my chlorine level jacked up to over 8.0 I haven't had to do much with the chemicals. But, I did learn that my CYA level is very high so I'll be replacing the water in the next month. So far my routine has been to check pH and chlorine levels weekly and performing additional tests once a month. This is a schedule that will probably continue throughout the year unless I notice anything out of the ordinary. It's nice to have a good kit that gives accurate readings at my side.

Had water quality issues for a while off the cheaper kits, then came this. Extremely easy to use and very accurate results, my pool was crystal clear within days of using this. Don’t let the price deter you as you are paying for what you get. I’ll never use another brand again!

This was shipped quickly to Ontario, Canada in under 1 week from ordering. The kit is of good quality and the case it comes with is very durable. The testing kit is good and has produced good result for me. I have not yet tested against a pool store but the kit gets you detailed readings of your chemicals. This kit tests Total + Free Chorine, Alkalinity, PH, CYA, and Hardness. It easy to use and the instructions are clear. My chlorine testing bottles expire 09/21 and the rest of my kits drops expire 6/22. Some tests do use quite a bit of the solutions and I am preparing to have to buy more near the end of the season.

While our local pool store offers free water testing, I don't regret my investment in this kit at all. It is convenient and you can test more often when you are having issues. I also often test myself and bring a sample for professional testing as well. I feel better when I know the pool store is being honest with me. Using a kit like this forces you to understand water chemistry a bit better. You are not at the mercy of a pool store telling you that you need this and this and some of that. I find it especially useful for our spa which I find is a bit more work to maintain than our pool. Reagents are by far more easier to read than strips which I find are often difficult to read. (e.g. the colour "kind of" matches, but not exactly). With this kit you are either comparing the colour of your water sample to a standard or you are adding drops and counting them until you water sample changes colour. It is quite easy to use. My understanding is that the FAS-DPD test for chlorine included in this kit is best (most accurate) test available for chlorine. It uses a powder with drop reagents. You count drops until colour changes occur. DPD test kits use reagents and colour matching. OTO kits do the same, but from my understanding are quite useless. The latter two methods become very unreliable if your chlorine levels are very low or very high. Included in this kit are tests for all of the most common water parameters that you'd want to test. (It does not have reagents for testing salt levels for those who use salt chlorinators in their pools). I don't miss this because my chlorinator provides this reading and I can compare it to my pool company when I do have my water professionally tested.

Great test kit, I just wish they were more widely available in the UK and at more reasonable prices like they are in the US

Quality is top notch ... so expensive in Canada for some reason. Ridiculous.