Hello! This has been a wonderful resource as I'm trying to learn about pool maintenance - just bought a house with an in ground chlorine vinyl pool and this is our first season. It was just opened by a company, they dumped 1 or 2 bottles of shock in and i filled up the missing water a good 3 feet with the hose (ran for close to 10 hours, given the average of 10gpm of a household hose that's 5400 gallons, or over 20% of the total pool capacity given my calculations). That was 5 days ago and other than skimming and running the pump / filter 4 hours a day I haven't done anything to the pool.
I just got the TF pro test kit but am a little lost how to enter everything into pool math and get something useful back - can someone help me out and point me in the right direction please?
pool:
16' x 34' rectangle vinyl pool; 3' at the shallow end and 8' at the deep end.
current readings:
ph: 7.2
Cl Br: off the charts yellow, darker yellow compared to any available readings
CC: 1
CYA: I stop seeing the black dot before it gets to the 100 line
I don't know what to do with the Cl Br readings.
The CYA levels seem to me i need to replace water, but I just added close to 15/20 % brand new water.
Any info the community can provide would be extremely helpful, thank you!
I just got the TF pro test kit but am a little lost how to enter everything into pool math and get something useful back - can someone help me out and point me in the right direction please?
pool:
16' x 34' rectangle vinyl pool; 3' at the shallow end and 8' at the deep end.
current readings:
ph: 7.2
Cl Br: off the charts yellow, darker yellow compared to any available readings
CC: 1
CYA: I stop seeing the black dot before it gets to the 100 line
I don't know what to do with the Cl Br readings.
The CYA levels seem to me i need to replace water, but I just added close to 15/20 % brand new water.
Any info the community can provide would be extremely helpful, thank you!