Ok so I'm draining some of my pool now. I brought a water sample to the store and they said they can't even test it due to the high chlorine reading. She said pool is probably in shock from all the shock. Lol. She also said since there is a large tree over hanging the pool this will probably be a constant issue. So in the mean time I'm emptying a large portion of water then I'll refill pool is already going green again so what do you think is my next step. How do I shock but not over shock and if I get it clear how do I keep it clear...
I would take what they told you with a grain of salt. You're with us now, their ideas about FC level and shock levels are no where near what really fixes pools.
Yes they are almost always shocked when TFP method folks bring their samples in for testing. Most of the stores recommend FC from 1-4 all the time except when shocking and even the shock level recommendations are super low. The last time I came out of a store with a printed report I had been temporarily out of FAS-DPD reagent and had been keeping my daily chlorine level replenished based on an OTO tester; the kind that turns yellow, then gold, then brown, then orange, and then red at higher FC levels. I had been doing this for several weeks, so I needed to know if I had developed cc's and a second opinion on FC since OTO ain't all that accurate. They told me to slow down on my chlorine use and to raise my TA with fancy-packaged baking soda. My TA was @65 (perfect for my pool). FC was at 6 and cc's were @.61. They said nothing about the need to shock the pool, but the report told me to shock it with tool little chlorine to fix the problem.
Technically, they weren't completely wrong, well they wouldn't have been wrong if the cc's were under .5, because my CYA was only 33 and my upper target should have been 4 to 5 at that CYA level with a non-swg pool with no organic matter, but according to their test, I had organic matter, and so I should have been SLAMing the pool. But yet the salesperson told me I was keeping too much chlorine in the pool and in reality, I had way too little. See how they don't make sense.
I was just being cautious at the time and making sure I was keeping enough FC in the pool while waiting on my refill. I soon got the refill; confirmed that I had cc's; got my ph adjusted; and started a SLAM. But that was a wake up call to me; not to let myself run out trying to stretch it out, because you've got to have the FAS-DPD to do a SLAM the right way, as you will see; no way around it; and you need to do an accurate measurement with the FAS-DPD on a regular basis in order to determine whether or not you need to SLAM, and to ensure that you're keeping FC in the target range. The FAS-DPD lets you get good readings at that high FC level even if the pool store can't, and I'd bet it's not all that high. It just looks high to them.
But all of that will come later; first you'll be getting rid of some CYA, and then SLAMing, and then once you kill it all, you'll have an easy-to-maintain pool the TFP way! Since you chuckled at the pool store's advice, sounds like you're reading and understanding TFPC and realizing how messed up their advice is sometimes.
