TAYLOR TECHNOLOGIES INC R-0013-E CYANURIC ACID 16 OZ

It’s a great product and the seller is great never have any issues with and the it’s a great price

Taylor Technologies products are my go-to for stability and reliability. I have several test kits to keep my pool balance myself. Saves me from traveling to the pool store so often. I take a water sample in the beginning of the season; after that I can rely on my at- home testing reagents and kits. And… I am a 75 yo grandma.

Bought two of these thinking they were cyanuric acid because both the product link and heading say so. It is not! It is actually the reagent to test for cyanuric acid in a Taylor test kit. There is nothing wrong with the product, so I didn't rate it down, but you have to look on the page it's on in the list of features to find out it's actually the liquid reagent, not the granular cyanuric acid. I realized it was liquid upon receiving it which should have been a tip. Instead, I assumed it might be liquid cyanuric acid and dumped it in the pool. It goes without saying that I should have checked the product label before making any assumptions. The point here is unless Amazon does the right thing and changes the product page heading and link to actually clearly state what it really is, you need to check out the description carefully. There is likely no intention to deceive, but it is quite deceptive nevertheless. The fact that it is from Taylor also should have been a tip because Taylor makes test kits. Just be careful until or unless Amazon makes the needed change to the heading and link to state that it is the test kit reagent for cyanuric acid. Hope this warning helps somebody avoid the mistake I made that will now cost me the price for the item.

If you test your CYA levels often buy this larger size. It's a lot cheaper and if stored at room temperature can last a couple years past the expiration date. My last bottle expired in 2022 and was still good this year until I used it up.

Excellent value for plentiful supply of one of the pool chemicals that goes quickly for those who do frequent water testing.

Very expensive

Great refill for the Taylor testing kit

To have good pool chemistry a certain amount of Cyanuric acid levels are needed to be able to balance the pool. Trouble Free Pools recommends a level 40 to 50 with 30 to 60 being acceptable. I got my fresh filled pool up to 24 PPM then slowly took it to 40 PPM. I am measuring my CYA levels more often and the test kit that I use, the Taylor Tech K-2006C which uses 60 ml bottles i.e. 2 oz, includes 3 such bottles. You end up using 7 ml per test so you get enough to run 25 tests. This bottle let me refill the 8 2 ounce bottles and since I test often enough I don't have to worry about the product expiring on me. This one came with an expiration date 11 months in the future (wish it was more, but it's better than 4 or 6 months) High CYA levels above 60 are bad as more chlorine is needed to achieve the same results with lower CYA levels. This can become a viscous cycle and the only way around it is to buy an expensive tablet for each 10K gallons of pool water or at the very least a 50% drain or more of your pool water to start fresh again. Living in the desert we deal with massive amounts of water loss due to evaporation and are adding about 1000 gallons every 10 days (we have other ideas to limit the loss that we haven't implemented yet), and still others to reduce the amount of chlorine used short of going to an all salt system. We use the trichlor tablets when we can but know that they include a small amount of cyanuric acid that will raise CYA levels so with lots of testing stop using the tablets, and switch back to 10% Chlorine.