Hello,
I opened my pool this season on May 14th for the first time after purchasing a house and the previous owner showed me how to do it. It's a 15x30 4.5ft pool with around 11k gallons.
I have a cartridge filter and Simple Salt system with a copper diode. I have been running our pump nonstop since May 14th.
I put a bag and a half of salt 40 pound bags, bucket of prime on the first day. Then we added a bag of shimmer a day or two later. 1 bottle of vivid.
After a week we couldn't get the cloudiness to go away and the pool store near us recommended 4 pounds of Lo and Slo because the PH and alkalinity was high. This didn't work and we took another sample in 2 days later and they recommended more Lo and Slo. We added up to 10 pounds so far and that did bring the pH and alkalinity down to perfect levels, but a few days later it was offset again.
The pool store recommended 2 burnout 72 bags after we took them a pool sample. This didn't work again and we went to a new pool store.
The new pool store measured my salinity at 2200 ppm. He recommended 3-4 bags more of salt. I just added 3 bags 7 hours ago and it is still cloudy, we'll see tomorrow.
I'm hoping y'all can shed some knowledge on me this pool is kicking our butts.
Thanks for any help.
-Alec
I opened my pool this season on May 14th for the first time after purchasing a house and the previous owner showed me how to do it. It's a 15x30 4.5ft pool with around 11k gallons.
I have a cartridge filter and Simple Salt system with a copper diode. I have been running our pump nonstop since May 14th.
I put a bag and a half of salt 40 pound bags, bucket of prime on the first day. Then we added a bag of shimmer a day or two later. 1 bottle of vivid.
After a week we couldn't get the cloudiness to go away and the pool store near us recommended 4 pounds of Lo and Slo because the PH and alkalinity was high. This didn't work and we took another sample in 2 days later and they recommended more Lo and Slo. We added up to 10 pounds so far and that did bring the pH and alkalinity down to perfect levels, but a few days later it was offset again.
The pool store recommended 2 burnout 72 bags after we took them a pool sample. This didn't work again and we went to a new pool store.
The new pool store measured my salinity at 2200 ppm. He recommended 3-4 bags more of salt. I just added 3 bags 7 hours ago and it is still cloudy, we'll see tomorrow.
I'm hoping y'all can shed some knowledge on me this pool is kicking our butts.
Thanks for any help.
-Alec