Your best time to shock the pool is at night. I would not wait til 6am to boost it up. I'd do it ASAP, as soon as you lose significant shock levels <i.e.> 9ppm.
frustratedpoolmom said:What product are you using?
Casey said:Have you thought that maybe it's the filter? I'm just throwing it out there. :| My neighbors pool <the one that did an atomic shock> couldn't clear her pool even after the shock because there was something wrong with her sand filter, it wasn't filtering. It'd blow and circulate the pool but would not clear it. It cleared soon after she replaced the filter.
I too just noticed you don't even have a signature. How are we suppose to know what kind of equipment you have? Maybe the answer could lie there? Just a thought.
I see in your first post that the size of your equipment isn't known. Can you take a picture of all that you have so we can see it. Someone may know exactly what you have. Also, can you take a pic of the pool in all it's beastliness so we can see it for ourselves.
teapot said:So you can see it will be killed and you are starting to hold chlorine so it will happen. As I said in an earlier post it's your call on draining and re-filling vs cost of the battle but you are getting there.
If the sand filter is badly channeled it could pass water through with out filtering but that won't effect the killing just the clearing of the pool.
teapot said:Hi adadof3,
Yep that is pretty green.
The filtration does not make a huge difference at this point although as you have said some of the algae is being caught and backwashed away.
It is imprtant to keep the water circulating to make sure of no dead spots.
When you mix your shock and poor it in you should see the local area where you deposit it go milky blue for a second or so as chlorine will kill some of the algae in around 30 seconds. Personally I would increase the shock dose, based on the bucket dose. I will work out some costs compared with the 14% hypochlorite bleach I mentioned before hopefully that could save you some money.
You probably don't believe it at the moment but once you have this beaten the control is so much easier and cheaper than what you are doing now.
The box on the wall (blue) is an aquamatics ioniser, copper /silver (the same as I use) Is this actually wired up to work?
What is your current PH level?