My Test Results - Help Please

[lapurple]

Okay friends. I just performed my first test using the Taylor kit 2006 and here are my results:

FC 4
PH 7.2
TA 130
CH 350
CYA 77
CC .25

If that's accurate, I think I'm in trouble.

 

[kellyfair]

Nah, you aren’t in trouble! But you want to round your CYA up to 80, which means you need more chlorine. Shoot for FC of 10.

How does water look?

 

[lapurple]

It's just barely hazy. I'm still fighting the yellow pollen accumulating on the bottom. 2 days in a row now I have vacuumed to waste and it keeps coming back! At least I think it's pollen. Check image below.

 

[mknauss]

Welcome to the forum!

Do you have pollen on your car or other surfaces?

I would suggest you have algae. What you are seeing is dead algae. Your FC in your test results above is too low. See [FC/CYA][/FC/CYA]

Tonight, do a Overnight Chlorine Loss Test. Raise your FC to 10 ppm using bleach/liquid chlorine this evening. Circulate your pool for 30 minutes. Test your FC and record. In the morning, before any sun shines on the pool and after running your pump for at least 30 minutes, take a water sample and test for FC and CC. If you lost more than 1 ppm FC overnight, it is time to SLAM Process.

Let us now what you get in the morning.

Take care.

 

[ctrav]

Welcome to TFP and already getting sage advice!

 

[lapurple]

Will do that. I'm sure there's some algae in there, but there is pine pollen in there as well. Hubby had just sprayed down the pool deck and overhead frame and screen with bleach and water. It was pretty yucky with pollen, mold, and algae. Later that evening the bottom of the pool was yuck! I hate Florida!

 

[mknauss]

We have NO pollen, mold, or algae here in southern Nevada ---- of course -- it is 110deg today too. Hasn't even warmed up yet this summer -----

Take care.

 

[lapurple]

How much chlorine should I use to get 10? I have these 2.5 gallon jugs from the pool store. Should i use a whole one?

 

[mknauss]

Use PoolMath. Put your pool volume in the spot towards the top and then your current FC in Now and Target of 10.

I come up with 1 gallon of 10% LC

 

[lapurple]

I have 10.5% sodium hypochlorite. I can't find that option in poolmath.

 

[mknauss]

Well, have never heard of that concentration. Normally 10%, 12.5%, etc.

Use the 10%. Your FC will go up a bit more than predicted.

 

[lapurple]

The whole 2.5 gallon jug?

 

[mknauss]

1 gallon.

 

[lapurple]

1 gallon.

I had a brain fart! lol!

I got the gallon put in, but it just started raining....grrr.

 

[mknauss]

Pool does not care about rain. You might get wet, it already is.

You can follow through with the test, unless you are to get ark amounts of rain.

Take care.

 

[kellyfair]

Yeah, Marty, but you have winter there. No thanks!

Hi, Purple! I have driven through Baldwin many, many times!