Taylor Service Complete Pool Water Test Kit K-2006C

We bought a house w an inground huge fiberglass pool last year and we’re new to pool ownership. I had been using test strips and hated that I really didn’t know what the pool chemistry numbers were since the strips only show a color and an approximation. Last summer I would battle w cloudy water off and on and even saw an erratic brownish- tan stain forming on the floor of my otherwise pristine white fiberglass pool. But my test strips always confirmed my pools chemistry were in the ideal color ranges. After much reading online and trying everything recommended to identify and remove the stain last year, but to no avail, I was determined to try again this pool season and hoped there wasn’t any permanent staining from it lasting a year. So I bought this test kit. Read the included booklet cover to cover. That booklet was the most informative pool chemistry info I had seen. I read countless blogs, forums, and pool sites and that little 60 pg booklet taught me more than anything else. It has the appropriate amount of detail on how to balance the chemistry and each section breaks down some specific details that are necessary for every single pool owner to understand. For example, the section on PH let me know that for a fiberglass pool I need to maintain 7.6 not a range of 7.2 - 7.8 but a strict adherence to 7.6 and that maintaining my pools PH was the first and most fundamental action I need to take. The booklet stated that outside of 7.6 the pool can get stains. Aha, I thought! Finally I was getting closer to getting the stain out. The booklet even confirmed that my stain was due to iron. I ordered Jacks blue and bought a culator for the pumps skimmer basket and the stain was gone by slowly disappearing over the course of two weeks. I was doing the passive approach since we have a heater and a more aggressive stain removal process is not recommended. All this pool season my pool has been crystal clear without the need for a bunch of chemicals or adding clarifier. It is because I test PH and chlorine 2 x a week and others as recommended by the book, like some are once a month or once every two months. I thought my pool was in balance w the test strips misguided color coding but really my pool was out of whack which was why the iron staining occurred in the first place. The test kit has reagents that help you to know just how much of a chemical you need to add to achieve balance. For instance, if you’re testing PH and it’s low it has an included reagent that you drop in the tube and count the drops needed to change color. Then use the booklet PH page chart and line up drops needed with your pool size to get an accurate dosing to bring pool back in balance. No more guessing. No trial and error. It tells you what to measure, what to adjust first, how long to wait between adjustments, etc.Buy this kit. Read the book. Buy some plastic syringes to get pool water easily and quickly and to accurately measure to the line on the tubes in the kit. I bought syringes, a 10 pack thru Amazon for like $5 at the same time I bought this kit. I washed everything before use and after use with hot water. I perform my tests at the laundry room sink counter so I can fill the tubes w syringes of pool water and wash out in between each test at the sink. It’s easy. It’s accurate. This kit says it’s for pros but really all pool owners need to be a pro at balancing pool chemistry

This is an amazing pool testing kit! I was intimidated at 1st and sat it aside but eventually sat down one day and powered through the booklet and even watched a couple of YouTube vids about how to use it. Let me just say, it's been a game changer for me! My pool stayed blue and Chrystal clear all summer long and I saved a ton of money not wasting pool chemicals. Enough to pay for the kit and then some!

Excellent test kit. For the longest time I had been going to the pool store for testing once a month or two and using test strips in between. Now, my pool store is great and fair, but if you are not buying they charge for the test (as they should, right?), but I discovered that the test strips would lead me astray since they are not very accurate and do not have a narrow range, so that my chemical levels would bounce around and I would always be correcting something that seemed a little off. So this year I rehabbed the pool, and in learning about pools I saw the troublefreepool website and the recommendations for test kits. I bought this one and the pool has never been better and I spend far less on chemicals, the right chemicals. I keep track of the history and where I need to be with pool chemistry. It does not take long to perform the tests and the tests are meaningful and accurate. This has been a great purchase for the pool.

I have never owned a pool before or tested one in my life and in one week of daily testing I have this stuff down and my pool is perfectly balanced to the T. Using this Taylor Service Complete Pool Water Test Kit K-2006C I have full control over testing and this 2006C kits gives me enough chemicals for year round testing since I live in Southern Florida. I would not recommend buying the Taylor Service Complete Pool Water Test Kit K-2006C if you live in a northern state as you will waste money because you will have to throw your chemicals away and buy new ones the following year as the bottles are 2 oz each. I would recommend the smaller kit with smaller bottles if you only have your pool open for 3 to 5 months. When I bought this home a few weeks ago the previous owner said his pool guys were great and I must say the pool was sparkling clear. But after doing some testing I found out the pool guys sucked and were not doing their job at all. I had to drain 1/3 of the in-ground pool to lower calcium levels, the PH was through the roof and there was way to much salt in the pool.My aqau nano salt water generator was reading 3200 PPM salt in the pool and when I performed a test using the Taylor Chloride Salt Kit the salt measured 2800 PPM so I re calibrated my Nano settings to reflect this new reading this kit gave me. 400 PPM difference is pretty huge.Now I know I have this pool to near perfect and it is now time to tackle the Hot Tub sitting next to it and get that water perfectly balanced. Thanks Taylor!The instructions are pretty good under the cover of the K-2006C kit but I found that watching some Taylor videos on testing on their website and other videos on youtube helped me out a great deal. Videos speak louder than a little booklet.

This is an excellent test kit, and the most complete that I have seen. But I see many inaccurate reviews saying that this kit can't be used to test for clorine or bromine because it is missing reagents R-0001 and R-0002. That is not true. While it doesn't have R-0001 and R-0002 as the cheaper, more common DPD tests, it has a different reagents and method (FAS-DPD) to measure free and combined clorine which is much more accurate and useful. And this kit "can" also be used to measure bromine, but you need either do an extra calculation, or buy an extra reagent, R-0872.This is not a "starter" kit for beginners. This is a complete test kit for people who are well informed and serious about maintaining their pool.