Recent content by JaxHomeOwner

I measured the chlorine this morning. I added enough liquid chlorine last night to bring the levels up to about 26 (a little higher than the shock level for my CYA levels). This mroning the FC was 25.5 and the combined chlorine was 0.5. The pool was still cloudy and a little green. This...

I had to go to the link you posted to figure out what "SLAM" meant. I raised the FC level and will test the water first thing tomorrow morning. If I may, when did the term "shock" fall out of vogue? We never had a pool growing up by my neighbors did and they shocked their pool. On a side note...

We did follow the routine either listed here or on the pool forum. We kept the chlorine levels at 15 ppm, and waited until the oclt was less than 1, and our CC was <0.5. Our pump ran 24hrs/day and we washed the filter daily due to it being old and the pressure going up rather quickly. After the...

Hello all, My wife and I have recently moved into a new house. The pool was originally Baquacil, but we switched over to chlorine after a neon green algae outbreak. The switch went fine and we were able to swim for the rest of the summer (we bought in June and switched in August). Recently, we...