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In the last few days, I have read more articles here about how to preform the tests for chlorine. I couldn't manage to keep the shock level up on the pool during the week, it was down between .5 and 2.0 FC level all week. I was adding a jug of chlorine in the morning and one in the evening to...

Thanks for all the replys guys. I'm now showing FC 11 CC 6 And the total is now 17 jugs of chlorine.

CYA socks have been out since we started questioning ammonia presence. I think I was not waiting long enough on the FC test. It takes as long as 4-5 min for the dpd powder to fully dissolve, and about another 6 min of dropping and waiting to see if pink comes back. Testing slowly like this made...

Well, it's been only 45 min. and FC is down to 2.5ppm. Is that fast enough to assume ammonia?

Good advice guys. I watched the video an that's how I was testing except for the add on drop at the end part. I will try your recommendation for an ammonia test now.

I think I am doing an accurate job on the test. sometimes after the pink seems to go clear it goes back to pink and i add another drop to get it clear. other than that I don't think the test is too difficult. I think it is starting to work, I added 4 more jugs which makes 10 today and 16 all...

6 more jugs in the pool. FC 2.0 CC 10.0

Ok, good. I just came home with 10 more jugs and can get more today if needed. I want to get this done before the rollback ends at walmart. Im just glad that the raise in CC was not an indicator of something else wrong. We have not had any sun here in MD for a while and I don't know when it...

Unfortunately I could not locate an ammonia test before I started adding CYA. I began to slam the pool yesterday evening. I added two socks full of CYA to the skimmer basket and will test the levels in a week. To get the chlorine up, I found a deal on liquid pool chlorinator from walmart for...

There is not an algae problem and the water does not seem cloudy to me, I can see the bottom easily. The previous owner did leave two partial bottles of algae remover though so it has been a problem in the past. Here are some pics of the current condition.

Hello everyone, I just found this site a couple days ago while trying to figure out how to care for my pool. On the advice of this forum, I ordered the Taylor K-2006 kit and just got the test done today. Here are the results of the test. PH 7.4 CyA is non existent, the black dot never...

Hello everyone. I just bought a new house that came with a swimming pool. I have already started messing with it and am glad that I found this site before I made some big mistakes.