Did I waste my money with the chlorine last night? No reaching the breaking point. It did clear up my pool so it is not cloudy anymore.
It's not that simple. You have to hold it at shock until you can pass the OCLT (overnight chlorine loss test). There's really no finite breaking point. The chlorine you've used up to this point hasn't been a waste, but you need to keep at it till you pass the OCLT.Did I waste my money with the chlorine last night? No reaching the breaking point. It did clear up my pool so it is not cloudy anymore.
As you can find out from The Pool Calculator, for your 14,000 gallon pool, 20 pounds (320 ounces weight) of 65% Cal-Hypo would raise the FC by 110 ppm while 20 gallons (2560 fluid ounces) of 12.5% chlorinating liquid would raise the FC by 179 ppm.mnvanci said:Ok - well I took my water to pacific pools and they did a chlorine demand test and told me I need now to add either 20lbs of calcium hypochlorite or 20 gallons of liquid chlorine. Which is stronger or are they the same?