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I did a partial drain... twice. First time I got CYA to 150. Second time got it down to 45. Slammed after that. Still took a while since there was so much Algae in there. There also isn't a floor drain, so getting everything up to the skimmer took a while. I eventually got the vacuum hose...

I just wanted to report back in that I got the pool in shape by the time we had to close. I wish it stayed warm enough to get in one more time, but that didn't happen. It was just a little cloudy still when we closed, but no more green and passed the FC drop test for several days.

Hi everyone. I'm closing my grandmother's pool for the first time. I don't have my testing numbers, but the pool was slammed for Algae going into closing (which worked by the way) and the numbers were where they were supposed to be. I followed the closing instructions here...

Not at all. I really appreciate the help. The frustration is that we lost out on the last great month of swimming weather and that it's such a pain to get things right again. So I think I'll get the test kit and while I wait for it do a drain and refill to start to lower CYA. I know my test...

Part of me wants to hit it just so the algae doesn't beat me! I'm going to try. So just so I know, is there a method to shocking with the chlorine? I'm planning on using 12 jugs of bleach. I didn't see in the SLAM instructions...dump that first amount all at once and then start testing?

Thanks for the response. Yes, I did look over Defeating Algae - unfortunately after I bought some of the pool store stuff and definitely unfortunately after the pool guys put all that stuff in the pool. So do you think I should just wait until next year or start hammering it with 10%...

Hello, I'll cut to the chase, but I'm happy to answer any questions. My grandmother's pool has been green for over a month. Pool store has dumped a ridiculous amount of chemicals in. I know they were putting in liquid chlorine (I'm assuming shock) and I saw tubs of powder chlorine there as...