Hi Everyone!
I've been lurking and learning from you all for weeks now. My new house has my very first pool ever. I'm a complete newbie, but very eager to do this the right way!
My memories of pools were always red-eyes and smelly clothes, and i'm determined to keep that from happening here.
I had one of the local (and well respected) pool companies open the pool, and it was BLACK (I'll post pics when i can dig them up). From there I added 4 gallons of 10.7% liquid chlorine, based on their recommendation. It wasn't enough to clear the pool in the 4 days since, but it's significantly better, but obviously stopped improving over the past 2 days. It's still cloudy and i can't see the bottom.
FYI, the pump has been running full time since then and I've kept all the filters clean.
While the local pool place seem well recommended, I need to have a good understanding what's going on myself, so here i am!
All I have are test strips right now (k2006 has been ordered)
based on the test strip here is where i am:
FAC: 0
TCL: 1
Alk: 120
Ph: 8ish
TH: 0
CYA: is low, may be 0 but certainly below 30.
So I think i need to address the PH level first (the pool calculator tells me how much to add), but do i then need to address CYA before SLAMing? I think i do, but I'm hoping for some expert advise.
Cheers guys, and thank you!
I've been lurking and learning from you all for weeks now. My new house has my very first pool ever. I'm a complete newbie, but very eager to do this the right way!
My memories of pools were always red-eyes and smelly clothes, and i'm determined to keep that from happening here.
I had one of the local (and well respected) pool companies open the pool, and it was BLACK (I'll post pics when i can dig them up). From there I added 4 gallons of 10.7% liquid chlorine, based on their recommendation. It wasn't enough to clear the pool in the 4 days since, but it's significantly better, but obviously stopped improving over the past 2 days. It's still cloudy and i can't see the bottom.
FYI, the pump has been running full time since then and I've kept all the filters clean.
While the local pool place seem well recommended, I need to have a good understanding what's going on myself, so here i am!
All I have are test strips right now (k2006 has been ordered)
based on the test strip here is where i am:
FAC: 0
TCL: 1
Alk: 120
Ph: 8ish
TH: 0
CYA: is low, may be 0 but certainly below 30.
So I think i need to address the PH level first (the pool calculator tells me how much to add), but do i then need to address CYA before SLAMing? I think i do, but I'm hoping for some expert advise.
Cheers guys, and thank you!