My mother-in-law sent me a picture of her green pool today which brought me here.
I believe I a few issues at play leading up to this problem:
I believe I a few issues at play leading up to this problem:
- My current test kit only measures total chlorine and pH - My measurement tonight is 5 ppm or higher (hard to estimate color comparitors), unfortunately I believe my free residual was/likely is 0 ppm.
- I ordered a Taylor k2006 but it won't get in for a week.
- I believe our main drain is plugged - I foolishly swam to the bottom and put my hand on the drain and felt no suction.
- Would I call a pool repair man, a plumber, someone else?
- Drop the pH to roughly 7.2
- Take a sample to the pool store to get a ballpark of the CYA since my kit won't be in for a week.
- Use the calculator from this site to determine the target chlorine residual.
- Hopefully add chlorine to the pool to start the SLAM process.
- Is this too soon? Should I wait for the k2006 to show up?
- Contact someone to help with the main drain.