Hi my name is Chris and I am a new pool owner. I recently bought a home with a 32,000 gallon chlorine pool which came with a Hayward S-106T sand filter 1HP pool pump and Hayward heater. I have had no luck getting the pool water clear this season. I had the local pool store test my water and have received different set of instruction or advice each time I've gone. I've watched YouTube after YouTube video to learn as much as I can about pool maintenance and water chemistry. The previous owner self maintained the pool each season and kept it well maintained. The pool water looked crystal clear in the home listings. I have been reading all the articles here to try and get more knowledge on pool lingo, chemicals and maintenance. I have used two types of home test kits so far. One was a test strip (which from reading the articles here I now know they are not that great.) and a DPD Test kit. My water seems clean but I may be reading the test wrong because it still remains cloudy And slightly turquoise. Any advice on how I should attack this situation would be greatly appreciated.
Hello from Stormville
- Thread starter kewlix
- Start date
- Jun 22, 2014
- 52,028
- Pool Size
- 17888
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
Welcome to TFP! 
We can certainly help wit the water. Tell us exactly what test kit you have now. Also, we would like to see a full set of water test results from your own testing kit as follows:
FC
CC
CYA
PH
TA
CH
We'll go from there.
We can certainly help wit the water. Tell us exactly what test kit you have now. Also, we would like to see a full set of water test results from your own testing kit as follows:FC
CC
CYA
PH
TA
CH
We'll go from there.
Hello and thanks for the response. I'm using two test kits. One is a DPD kit from Leslie's pools. And the other it's a 5 way test strip kit from Bioguard.
According to the DFD kit
CL - 2
BR - 4
PH - 7.6
And with the levels according to the water strip are
TH - 200
BR - 4
FC - 1
PH - 7.2
TA - 120
I know these aren't all the numbers you are asking for, but these are what test kits I have and information they give me . Any help is appreciated. Thank you
According to the DFD kit
CL - 2
BR - 4
PH - 7.6
And with the levels according to the water strip are
TH - 200
BR - 4
FC - 1
PH - 7.2
TA - 120
I know these aren't all the numbers you are asking for, but these are what test kits I have and information they give me . Any help is appreciated. Thank you
Fair enough because you're new.
But we need reliable data or the advice is potentially harmful. We need an accurate CYA # to know where your FC should be. The pool store isn't accurate there, and test strips are way too vague there.
Unless you have no CYA, the FC level is way too low and will give you what you see.
Either test kit from TFtestkits.net is a better value in their price point as their comp Taylor kits (2006 / 2006C), but any of the 4 will give you reliable data and we can go from there.
Download PoolMath and add 3ppm of chlorine daily until the kit comes if you're going to hop right on ordering one.
Also, disregard the BR results. The block is either/or for FC or Bromine, not both.