Recent content by nullandv01d

Yup yup doin it. I just keep reading and coming up with questions. I'm bordering on obsession. My wife made a new rule that if my sentence involves the word pool, she doesn't want to hear it.

I've seen it on many things but maybe they are referring to the scaling and that gives it the appearance of cloudiness. So what about the oily appearance on the surface? Anyone know what that could be?

Can't high PH or Alkalinity make the water cloudy or is that a cloudy you can still see through. I ordered a 2 oz bottle of the 871 because I have a feeling I'm going to run out fast :)

Last night Fc 38 Cc .5 This morning Fc 35 Cc .5 Continuing to SLAM. As far as the pool being clear...if the OCLT is <1 and cc is 0 but the pool is still cloudy am I done as long as its not green? And there is an oily looking layer in spots on the surface of the water. Any guesses?

I began the slamming process today. I vacuumed the pool as best i could without being able to see. Mainly to bring the water down a little because it rained. Then I checked the chlorine levels FC - 19 CC - 0? I added the amount of bleach to bring it up to about 30. I will check again in a...

Ok so I got my test kit today and first tried to measure the FC and got to 100 drops and realized I should have used the .5 method so I know the Chlorine is over 20 but I didn't do the CC yet. My CYA read 70-80 I think and my PH was at 7.4 with an Alkalinity of 150. should I first drain down...

Test kit shipped today. My wife said "for $60 our pool better be sparkling by next week". I've decided to just keep an eye on the chlorine and not let it fall below "high" on the test strips. I'm also brushing it twice a day. I want to be able to get an accurate ph reading before I start...

Ok I am guessing that my CYA is btwn 40 and 50 or a minimum of 30 because I added 1.75lbs which would (according to the instructions bring a 4000ga pool to 40ppm or something like that. I had been adding ph minus to bring the ph down occasionally because i had read that chlorine will bring up...

My pool was fine until our area flooded including our town's power station and they put us on limited power with explicit instructions to not run anything unnecessary like pool pumps. So 3 weeks later we had a green pool. I've been dumping 2-3 (121oz) jugs of bleach into it everyday 1 in the...