I'm so glad to have found this forum! I have renewed hope now! We were spending a ton of $ at a local pool place trying to correct our AG 24ft x 4' pool (16,000 gallons, right)? Its been green and cloudy since mid July! And everything I bought to correct the water hasn't helped much... but I think the chemicals they sold to me got my pool water a little bit better. Still green and murky though
Here's the latest read out:
FC - 0
CC - test says "total chlorine" 0.5
pH - 8.3
TA - 133
CH - test says "total Hardness" 329 (1/2 well water)
CYA - 133
I couldn't spend yet ANOTHER $100 there this week but I knew my pool needed chlorine so I looked online to find a cheap alternative and found you guys! I ran to Aldi, poured in 4 gallons of 6% bleach this afternoon and then this evening poured in 1/2 a bottle of generic 8.5% bleach. I also added 4 oz. of blue pool clarifier again because tiny green keeps shooting back out into pool. (been vacuuming like crazy)... Cartridge filter btw. They sold me some tiny $20 bag of DE type stuff to gum up the filter... I put a gallon of algaecide in over the past 2 weeks. I put in a small $20 bag of baking soda last week...I KNEW THATS WHAT IT WAS! (could have got the same amount for like $3.00 in grocery store)! Put in pounds & pounds of super Chlor ~ put in expensive lo-n-slo at least 3x in the last month ~ also did the phos free treatment stuff ( 2 weeks ago - and again last night). Also, that super expensive Super Floc stuff! Theres more, but that's off the top of my head, and I'm all spent out. Problem is, I have no test kit yet & by the time I get one online it'll be time to close the pool anyhow, I'm sure. I know I need to SLAM my pool but I really don't understand how to know how much bleach to poor in, when & how often to do it, and how it works. My husband gave up weeks ago, But I'm not so ready to throw in the pool towel YET! Thanks for any advice, marnie
Here's the latest read out:
FC - 0
CC - test says "total chlorine" 0.5
pH - 8.3
TA - 133
CH - test says "total Hardness" 329 (1/2 well water)
CYA - 133
I couldn't spend yet ANOTHER $100 there this week but I knew my pool needed chlorine so I looked online to find a cheap alternative and found you guys! I ran to Aldi, poured in 4 gallons of 6% bleach this afternoon and then this evening poured in 1/2 a bottle of generic 8.5% bleach. I also added 4 oz. of blue pool clarifier again because tiny green keeps shooting back out into pool. (been vacuuming like crazy)... Cartridge filter btw. They sold me some tiny $20 bag of DE type stuff to gum up the filter... I put a gallon of algaecide in over the past 2 weeks. I put in a small $20 bag of baking soda last week...I KNEW THATS WHAT IT WAS! (could have got the same amount for like $3.00 in grocery store)! Put in pounds & pounds of super Chlor ~ put in expensive lo-n-slo at least 3x in the last month ~ also did the phos free treatment stuff ( 2 weeks ago - and again last night). Also, that super expensive Super Floc stuff! Theres more, but that's off the top of my head, and I'm all spent out. Problem is, I have no test kit yet & by the time I get one online it'll be time to close the pool anyhow, I'm sure. I know I need to SLAM my pool but I really don't understand how to know how much bleach to poor in, when & how often to do it, and how it works. My husband gave up weeks ago, But I'm not so ready to throw in the pool towel YET! Thanks for any advice, marnie