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Thanks Linen. I will get it to 10 tonight and start shocking after the party. Dura I have been reading the articles you mentioned and was a little confused on that part. My apologies. I actually copied and pasted the info from the article you mentioned.

I have read it but guess I missed understood it. My question is about this part... CC is 0.5 or lower; An overnight FC loss test shows a loss of 1.0 ppm or less; And the water is clear. So when you shock the pool you get your FC level to 20ppm and keep it for over night and see if it drops less...

Sounds good. I just didnt know if I got it to 20 tonight would it be back to swiming levels my afternoon tomorrow.

Yes its 3.5 bottles of 182oz. Let me ask this. Tomorrow I have a pool party with kids at our house. Should I start this after they leave or do it tonight?

My apologies. It does sound confusing when I looked back over it. Ok these were my numbers this morning... PH8.0 CYA-45-50 FC1.5 I think this is due to the shock added last night 4 cups to 17000 gallon pool TA-120 CH-340 Phospates- 300 I since have dropped the PH to 7.2 using MAcid. The FC...

Yes I am back with the original problem. I cant keep a FC count. I have small amounts (spots) of g algea. I posted my tests from today on previous post. Water looks a little cloudy only because of the bleach added today. Since you saw the numbers earlier today I put 1 big bottle of bleach...

When the pool was built last year it was a lagoon or free form style. the builder told me it was between 17000 and 18000. He told me to go by 17,000 though. Here are the specs..36' long by 22' wide. the depths are 3.5-4-5. We have a beach entry that takes of course is shallow. The reason...

Thanks for the advice IVY. Yeah I went and bought a bunch of bleach today from walmart. I am going that way now. The shock used last night was ALL CLEAR (give by builders last year) never used till this year. Ing 68% Calcium Hypo other 32%. Now I need to see how much bleach to add to get to...

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Now I am more confused...I double check my numbers and was wrong. And then I checked my water again this number and it says what my numbers have said... PH8.0 CYA-45-50 FC1.5 I think this is due to the shock added last night 4 cups to 17000 gallon pool TA-120 CH-340 Phospates- 300

At the start of this pool season I dumped about 25% of the pool water and replaced it. This was due to a high CYA reading but not by too much. If I remember correctly it was 125. Then due to the hot weather in dallas I am losing water each day and having to refill about once a day to every...

My apologies. I must of not been clear earlier. I dont have salt water. Its an inline chlorinator for my pool. I think its called Rainbow or something.

Yeah I checked the chlorine to make sure but I atleast check that once a week. To be honest I think I plan to change to the bleach way next year. Its already late in the game for this season. This year I have gone through tons more chlorine than last year. About 1/4 more than last year...

I have read a bit on the forums and know its better to use the Bleach method but when the pool was built last year they put the inline feeder and gave me a bucket of tablets. So yes I have been usisng it this whole time. My numbers are... TH: 360-380 FC:0 PH:changes from 7.2-7.5 used to be...

Got a question that ahs been killing me all summer. All my pool numbers have been pretty good except at begining of season my ph was high so added MA and its been right at 7.2 for a while. All numbers looks good as well. My main problem is every reading shows no free chlorine (0). I have...