Hi everyone,
I've had great success here before and was hoping for a repeat performance.
On Monday night my 27K gallon pool became a tad cloudy, I noticed while swimming. I checked levels:
FC: 1.8
CC: not present
pH: 7.8
TA: 80
CH: 160
CYA: 40
This has essentially been standard all year for me. I'll bump up the FC to 4 every other night (I use a 32 oz. empty Gatorade bottle when 1 bottle equals 1 FC point). I also added 16 oz. muriatic acid.
Tuesday the cloudiness remained, a light went off in my head that I hadn't backwashed my sand filter in quite a few weeks.
Tuesday night I backwashed and retested. All values were the same aside from FC that was now at 4 and pH at 7.6ish. I threw in the vacuum and also 2 gallons of 12.5% (now getting nervous) and went to bed.
Wednesday morning, still cloudy, not worse than Tuesday, FC high. I attributed cloudiness to particles settling still, so j just vacuumed again.
Thursday AM, rained last night:
FC: 4
CC: not present
TA: 80
CH: 160
pH: 7.9
CYA: didn't check, out of reagent
Out of frustration, I added 6 lbs arm and hammer, 30 oz. muriatic acid and 2 gallons 12.5% chlorine.
I've been running my filter 24 hours since Tuesday. Any thoughts on what I've done wrong?
Thanks in advance!
I've had great success here before and was hoping for a repeat performance.
On Monday night my 27K gallon pool became a tad cloudy, I noticed while swimming. I checked levels:
FC: 1.8
CC: not present
pH: 7.8
TA: 80
CH: 160
CYA: 40
This has essentially been standard all year for me. I'll bump up the FC to 4 every other night (I use a 32 oz. empty Gatorade bottle when 1 bottle equals 1 FC point). I also added 16 oz. muriatic acid.
Tuesday the cloudiness remained, a light went off in my head that I hadn't backwashed my sand filter in quite a few weeks.
Tuesday night I backwashed and retested. All values were the same aside from FC that was now at 4 and pH at 7.6ish. I threw in the vacuum and also 2 gallons of 12.5% (now getting nervous) and went to bed.
Wednesday morning, still cloudy, not worse than Tuesday, FC high. I attributed cloudiness to particles settling still, so j just vacuumed again.
Thursday AM, rained last night:
FC: 4
CC: not present
TA: 80
CH: 160
pH: 7.9
CYA: didn't check, out of reagent
Out of frustration, I added 6 lbs arm and hammer, 30 oz. muriatic acid and 2 gallons 12.5% chlorine.
I've been running my filter 24 hours since Tuesday. Any thoughts on what I've done wrong?
Thanks in advance!