Confused new pool owner

[Ownerofapool]

Hi all,
Here are my water tests from Clorox test strips. Don’t really know where to go from here . Bought a new pool and it can hold 1200 gallons. Used to treat with 6% bleach alone every other day until water grew algae.

 

[Ownerofapool]

Hi all,
Here are my water tests from Clorox test strips. Don’t really know where to go from here . Bought a new pool and it can hold 1200 gallons. Used to treat with 6% bleach alone every other day until water grew algae.

Total hardness 500
Total chlorine 0
Free chlorine 0
Ph 7.9
TA 40
Stabilizer 0

 

[duraleigh]

Welcome to the forum

Please confirm your pool is 1200 gallons.

 

[Ownerofapool]

My pool is a round 10 ft diameter pool and 36 inches in depth from funsicle

 

[Ownerofapool]

Hi,
After posting, I emptied about half of the pool water. Do you recommend to refill from there and treat? I wish to avoid emptying all of the water if I can as this is my fourth time emptying the pool this season due to unsuccessful pool maintenance. Any advice on what to do?

 

[Ownerofapool]

Hi All! I am a new pool owner and I have a question about my round 1200 gallon above ground pool. I filled my pool 3 days ago, but haven’t put anything inside it yet. Now it is cloudy and weird. I bought some test strips (Clorox test strips and HTH test strips) and tested the water now. Here are my results:
Total hardness 500
Total chlorine 0
Free chlorine 0
Ph 7.8
TA 40
Stabilizer 0
I was thinking to empty half of the pool to reduce the calcium level and refill with fresh water then treat.
I don’t know where to go from here.
Also, should I be covering the pool at night? some leaves do get in.

 

[mknauss]

Welcome to the forum!

You may want to consider following Seasonal Pools

 

[Newdude]

I don’t know where to go from here

You need a reliable test method. Strips are just awful and won't let you be trouble free.

Test Kits Compared

Or find a smaller drop based kit and add the CYA test kit and a Taylor k1515 kit for FC.

You need 30 ppm of CYA and liquid chlorine per PoolMath. This part we trust as we know your fill water had 0 CYA.

Your calcium is high from your fill water if you didn't add any. Draining and refilling won't help in that case, but the test strip could be off here instead.

 

[Ownerofapool]

Thank you all for the advice! I will add liquid chlorine and cya that I bought, but I have a question on ph and total alkalinity. Will I need to adjust them if they get high? The Clorox app says that the ph is high and I need to lower it while the TA is too low and that the ideal range is 80-110. Do I need to adjust them too?

 

[wireform]

Any filtration system?

 

[Ownerofapool]

Yes, Intex cartridge filter