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The rain has not come yet... so I was able to test the water and take some photos... FC: 3.6 CC: 0.0 pH: 7.2 CH: 350 TA: 110 CY: 30

Butterfly, The answers are A - yes, B - yes, C - yes! It poured here last night and is forecast for rain again today... I'll take a photo when the sun comes out and post it - probably later this weekend. ivyleager, There was sediment, which I vacuumed up early last evening... I also brushed...

It's been a while since my last post... but I'm happy :lol: to report that after 7 cases of liquid shock (yee-oww!) the FC level has finally held overnight and I can actually see the bottom. I plan to hand vacuum tonight and hopefully there WILL be a Memorial Day swim!

I just picked up 16 gallons of 12.5% liquid shock (sodium hypochlorite) and will "hit it hard" tonight. Wish me luck!

ivyleager, It doesn't feel like it's going well at all. I didn't get the bleach purchased until dinnertime (although it was bright and sunny here all day, so maybe that's not so bad). I tested the water prior to adding the bleach; FC=0, TC=0, CY=30. The calculator told me to add six 96-oz...

ivyleager, Thanks for sticking with me... I bought Chlorox at Walmart yesterday - 6% sodium hypochlorite. As I mentioned, I bought almost ten gallons, thinking I'd be OK. I'm going to need to try and hit the store tomorrow (homebound today) and get a lot more! As for debris, while it's tough...

frustratedpoolmom, I have a Taylor K-2006 kit. ivyleager, I understand - I'm only focusing on the chlorine level right now. Unfortunately, after 3 hours, the FC and TC are down to ~1 ppm! So something is in there... I'm going to have to go get some more bleach, because I used the 10 gallons...

I added 4 gallons of bleach, as ivyleager recommended. That was last night at about 6:00 pm; at 9:30 pm I tested the water and got the following results (although the readings were inside, under fluorescent lamps): FC: 2.0 TC: 2.0 pH: 7.2 CH: 400 TA: 90 CY: 40 (used coloeb's method) This...

Thanks again to everyone for the quick responses. The autochlorinator is empty, and I haven't placed any pucks in it since I opened the pool ten days ago... I have brushed the walls of the pool (they feel fine to the touch) and the shock I used was 65% (or 68%?) cal-hypo, not dichlor. I'll...

ivyleager, One other question, since you mentioned my CY might be low. What's the correct height to view the tube on the Taylor test kit? If I hold my head close to the tube, the black dot remains visible longer... versus at a standing height with the tube on a table. Sorry if it's a stupid...

ivyleager and cardiacmommy, Thanks for the quick replies. In answer to your questions, I do have the Taylor complete drop test kit, and that's what I used for last night's test. The pool is a standard diving pool shape (no board for us, though!), so it's 8' deep at one end and 3' deep at the...

My pool turned cloudy after I opened it and added chemicals per my installer/local pool store. I've been there three times with water samples, and each time there's more to do, but the numbers keep fluctuating and the pool remains cloudy. Here are the results from May 1 (store analysis): FC...