I have an above ground 10,000 gal vinyl pool in CT which I opened 3 weeks ago. I shocked it with bleach and algae stuff and it went orderly from green to grey within the 1st week and I would have though on the way to clear. After the 2nd week, I ran test and added 2 lbs. of borax to raise the pH from. 7.0 and a lb. of stabilizer to raise my cya from 0. Cartridge filter was running 24/7 the first 2 week. I added some clear stuff. Now I brought a sample to the pool store after the 2nd week and they told me I had too much free chlorine which bleached the test result for the other attributes. I probably over shocked it as I was impatient with the slow process to clear. So I ran the pump during the day and did not add any chlorine to get it back to normal. So now it has been 3 weeks and I got results form the pool store:
FC = 1.5
TC = 1.5
pH 7.2
TA = 60
CYA = 40
CH = 70
Total dissolved solids = 500
copper/iron = 0
phosphates = 0
They said the numbers were good but they tried to sell my $60 of chemicals to raise calcium and TA. I bought a brush and went home to plug the number into the pool calculator which told me to add baking soda to raise TA. Now the perplexing thing is the pool is still annoyingly cloudy! It is cleary around the 3-4 feet on the edges but cloudy as you see the center. What can I do?? Thanks.
FC = 1.5
TC = 1.5
pH 7.2
TA = 60
CYA = 40
CH = 70
Total dissolved solids = 500
copper/iron = 0
phosphates = 0
They said the numbers were good but they tried to sell my $60 of chemicals to raise calcium and TA. I bought a brush and went home to plug the number into the pool calculator which told me to add baking soda to raise TA. Now the perplexing thing is the pool is still annoyingly cloudy! It is cleary around the 3-4 feet on the edges but cloudy as you see the center. What can I do?? Thanks.