Hi all, enjoying my third year here at TFP. Opened up to a green mess this year, with a couple of days of hard work I am well on my way to being once again crystal clear. I have two questions however....
1) I know this sounds counter intuitive but does non-chlorine shock show up on our free chlorine test as free chlorine?
2) My liner is quite faded (it is 13 years old), especially in certain spots like the stairs in the shallow end as well as the floor and a few spots in the deep end. My wife is telling it is because of the bleach I add to the pool eveeryday. Before I started using the method we do here I had endless algae issues and followed the pool store advice. Tons of shock and everything else you could imagine went into the pool and my CYA was well over 100 and honestly I couldnt even tell you what my chlorine level was back then. Since I have adopted the TFP method I have taken my chlorine dispensor and thrown it in the garbage and hard piped where it used to be. Right now I am sure my chlorine levels are lower on a daily basis then they ever have been. So my question is what is causing the liner to fade, I feel it can’t be the bleach but it is due to the sun and the years of being abused by the pool store. Am I on the right track with that?
1) I know this sounds counter intuitive but does non-chlorine shock show up on our free chlorine test as free chlorine?
2) My liner is quite faded (it is 13 years old), especially in certain spots like the stairs in the shallow end as well as the floor and a few spots in the deep end. My wife is telling it is because of the bleach I add to the pool eveeryday. Before I started using the method we do here I had endless algae issues and followed the pool store advice. Tons of shock and everything else you could imagine went into the pool and my CYA was well over 100 and honestly I couldnt even tell you what my chlorine level was back then. Since I have adopted the TFP method I have taken my chlorine dispensor and thrown it in the garbage and hard piped where it used to be. Right now I am sure my chlorine levels are lower on a daily basis then they ever have been. So my question is what is causing the liner to fade, I feel it can’t be the bleach but it is due to the sun and the years of being abused by the pool store. Am I on the right track with that?