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all of our overnight tests have been fine. no loss. we have had several days of rain so we havent been using it. I "forgot" to add bleach those days and it got very low les than .5fc so i put enough in there to give a little boost. now i am maintaining 3-7 fc, testing at night, adding enough...

My chlorine had gotten to zero obviously. So since I shocked it I have been able to maintain the chlorine levels. now I'm just keeping the chlorine between 3-7 now.

great thanks! I have used the pool calculator regularly!

ok great thanks. it did go down because it gets full sun all the time and all other levels are fine. now we move on to maintaining the fc level around 4. do you all add bleach every day? and if I add 1 gal of bleach does it raise the fc level 1.5ppm every time I add it? we are spending alot of...

We shocked our pool last night. I found the cya/chlorine chart to find the recommended shock level. Ours was 16. So we got up this morning and it was still 16. Is it safe to swim in today if the chlorine level stays high? I know the sun will evaporate some but how high is too high to swim in?

I guess we will do a trial run to see how it works. Gonna try a night time rest and check things in the morning. I added our pool info to my signature, I hope it helps. Things are pretty faded outside and it's been in since 1994.

we have an L-Shaped in-ground 40,000gal vinyl liner pool Hayward Sand filter (not sure of mdoel #, will have to check on that) Chlorinator (which we currently have no tabs in) WHich brings me to another question. Are there chlorine tabs for achlorinator that doesnt add stabilizer or calcium?

We have been running our pump/filter consistently for 24/7 the past month. we just got our elec bill LOL yeah shocked a bit. Is it ok to turn the pol off at night or anytime for that matter?? We just got our Taylor k-2006 and testing has been a dream. Maintaining all levels great! I noticed...

We did use a Cal-Hypo to shock the pool. Did the overnight test and lost no chlorine and all levels staying about the same. Going to take a water sample to pool store to be analyzed. Still waiting for my Taylor k-2006 to come in then I can test all levels on my own. Since my levels stayed the...

the cya was 36 yesterday so I know thats not eating my chlorine. but this is the first time we have had any kind of FC levels and it stay the same level all day in full sun.

I shocked our pool last night. Finally have some FC in the pool after weeks of 0. Our levels right now read: FC 2-3; ph 7.6; TA 90-100. I used a chemistry kit I had until my Taylor k-2006 FAS DPD kit comes in. Everything I am showing says all is ideal or in normal range. Why is the pool a little...

Oh the length of the deep end rectangle is 25 width is 18. you have 18x25, when its actually 25x18

See we were told to separate the pool into to rectangles and multiply by 7.5 separately. that gives us a totally different answer. Now I dont know what to believe. LxWxAvgDepx7.5 you are saying to add the two totals together then x by 7.5

I am not sure how to put a signature on here but this is the info I know off hand: We have an In-Ground L-Shaped pool with Vinyl Liner. Hayward Sand Filter. After doing the LxWxAvg Depx7.5 our pool only holds 24,502 gallons. We were told 40,000. If you separate our pool into two rectangles they...

I did what was recommended and drained 50% of my water and added new water. Went and had the water tested today and this is what it says: Temp - 70; CYA - 36; TC - .4; FC - 0; PH - 7.3; TA - 121; Total hardness - 308. What they recommend is 4lbs of shock. Should I enter this info in the pool...