Hi Guys/ Gals at TFP.
I recently purchased a 20’ x48” circle vinyl pool around early June and things were great. I bought test strips and some chemicals from my local Lowe’s (probably bad idea according to my pool store) and things were going fine. I kept the water clear and sparkling for weeks till sometime last weekend. I was still using the test strips and said my PH, TA were high. It dropped using Clorex PH down and everything was fine for a bit.
Gave it a shock with same brand shock, to raise the FC and TC a bit since they were on the low side and boom cloudy pool. Water went from visible to can’t see anything down below. This is really upsetting since it’s gonna be hot now and my kid wants to jump in.
According to my local pool store it’s the “Phosphates” that are causing me to get cloudy water. I went with there methods for a couple days to make the water more manageable but for the sake of it, it still won’t clear up.
These are the very last analysis report I got from them:
FC:1
TC:1
CH:200
CYA:60
TA:120
pH:7.4
Pho:500
now I did a retest this morning with my equipment (equivalent to Taylor k2006)
and got
FC:0
TC:1
pH:7.4
TA:150
CH:500? Wouldn’t read right
Cya: 80ish-90ish
Any help would greatly be appreciated
-jo
I recently purchased a 20’ x48” circle vinyl pool around early June and things were great. I bought test strips and some chemicals from my local Lowe’s (probably bad idea according to my pool store) and things were going fine. I kept the water clear and sparkling for weeks till sometime last weekend. I was still using the test strips and said my PH, TA were high. It dropped using Clorex PH down and everything was fine for a bit.
Gave it a shock with same brand shock, to raise the FC and TC a bit since they were on the low side and boom cloudy pool. Water went from visible to can’t see anything down below. This is really upsetting since it’s gonna be hot now and my kid wants to jump in.
According to my local pool store it’s the “Phosphates” that are causing me to get cloudy water. I went with there methods for a couple days to make the water more manageable but for the sake of it, it still won’t clear up.
These are the very last analysis report I got from them:
FC:1
TC:1
CH:200
CYA:60
TA:120
pH:7.4
Pho:500
now I did a retest this morning with my equipment (equivalent to Taylor k2006)
and got
FC:0
TC:1
pH:7.4
TA:150
CH:500? Wouldn’t read right
Cya: 80ish-90ish
Any help would greatly be appreciated
-jo