I opened my pool roughly 2 weeks ago.
I expected a green mess down there, but instead I found a detritus mess down there with zero green.
Upon testing, I found FC 14 in the water. According to Pool Math, it's supposed to be between 4 and 11 , so that's not too far beyond the pale except I haven't touched the water since last October. "This is what I get for having the local pool guys close for me since I was too busy," I thought.
Now, I WANT the chlorine to drop, because I have some iron stains on my pool from last year I want to wash off, and when I tried to use ascorbic acid on it last year without dropping chlorine levels first it didn't work. Except, I've had the pool uncovered for two weeks now and my FC is STILL 4.5. This means 1 of three things is happening:
1) I have lost all sense of what work it takes to keep this thing chlorinated since I converted it to saltwater. Before, if I wasn't pouring a bit of chlorine in every other day levels dropped to far, even if it was covered. Now I've had two weeks of filling my skimmer basket with tree buds and it's still sanitizing. CYA doesn't stabilize THAT much, does it? The waters still cold, maybe that's throwing me off?
2) I'm doing something wrong with the test kit. I've been doing this a while though but I never rule out human error with myself.
3) My test kit is too old. I'm still using the powder and titration solution I got like 2 years ago .
My bet is on #1 but I wanted to ask here because this is just really weird to me. At the same time, the whole reason I have iron stains to begin with is because chlorine got too high since I'm still trying to learn how to use the SWG after converting...
I expected a green mess down there, but instead I found a detritus mess down there with zero green.
Upon testing, I found FC 14 in the water. According to Pool Math, it's supposed to be between 4 and 11 , so that's not too far beyond the pale except I haven't touched the water since last October. "This is what I get for having the local pool guys close for me since I was too busy," I thought.
Now, I WANT the chlorine to drop, because I have some iron stains on my pool from last year I want to wash off, and when I tried to use ascorbic acid on it last year without dropping chlorine levels first it didn't work. Except, I've had the pool uncovered for two weeks now and my FC is STILL 4.5. This means 1 of three things is happening:
1) I have lost all sense of what work it takes to keep this thing chlorinated since I converted it to saltwater. Before, if I wasn't pouring a bit of chlorine in every other day levels dropped to far, even if it was covered. Now I've had two weeks of filling my skimmer basket with tree buds and it's still sanitizing. CYA doesn't stabilize THAT much, does it? The waters still cold, maybe that's throwing me off?
2) I'm doing something wrong with the test kit. I've been doing this a while though but I never rule out human error with myself.
3) My test kit is too old. I'm still using the powder and titration solution I got like 2 years ago .
My bet is on #1 but I wanted to ask here because this is just really weird to me. At the same time, the whole reason I have iron stains to begin with is because chlorine got too high since I'm still trying to learn how to use the SWG after converting...