Hey Everyone,
I currently have an 18k gallon in ground pool, D.E. filter, vinyl liner and use liquid chlorine.
I opened my pool to a bit of a green, cloudy mess, but it was clear within 2 days of running the filter and using some shock.
I used my Taylor kit and chemicals to get everything balanced nicely, but the free and total chlorine just keep returning to 0. I've added 120 oz of liquid chlorine and at the end of the night recently and it was still 0 in the morning. I went through all of my usual fixes for this kinda stuff by completely cleaning my filter and grids and reapplying new D.E. I scrubbed all of the walls and kept up with larger amounts of liquid chlorine, but it only shows up for the first hour, if not less.
I brought a sample to the closest pool store and they told me it must be pollen because of our area (New Jersey), and that the chlorine was never getting a chance to survive because the pollen was using it up immediately. They recommended a weekly clarifier of sorts that helps with this specifically in addition to daily liquid chlorine doses. I believe it's called Leslie's Perfect Weekly.
I'm hear to ask if this stuff could help or if I should begin the SLAM process, even though the water looks literally perfect. No algae growth. No visible film on the surface. I'm just confused as to what is eating up the chlorine so fast.
As I mentioned, all of my chemicals are within or near ideal range except the total and free chlorine.
All chlorine is essentially near 0. Clear on taylor test tube
CYA: 50
PH: 7.4
ALK: 85
Hardness: 180 (a little low) but I'm more focused on the Chlorine right now
Thanks ahead of time.
I currently have an 18k gallon in ground pool, D.E. filter, vinyl liner and use liquid chlorine.
I opened my pool to a bit of a green, cloudy mess, but it was clear within 2 days of running the filter and using some shock.
I used my Taylor kit and chemicals to get everything balanced nicely, but the free and total chlorine just keep returning to 0. I've added 120 oz of liquid chlorine and at the end of the night recently and it was still 0 in the morning. I went through all of my usual fixes for this kinda stuff by completely cleaning my filter and grids and reapplying new D.E. I scrubbed all of the walls and kept up with larger amounts of liquid chlorine, but it only shows up for the first hour, if not less.
I brought a sample to the closest pool store and they told me it must be pollen because of our area (New Jersey), and that the chlorine was never getting a chance to survive because the pollen was using it up immediately. They recommended a weekly clarifier of sorts that helps with this specifically in addition to daily liquid chlorine doses. I believe it's called Leslie's Perfect Weekly.
I'm hear to ask if this stuff could help or if I should begin the SLAM process, even though the water looks literally perfect. No algae growth. No visible film on the surface. I'm just confused as to what is eating up the chlorine so fast.
As I mentioned, all of my chemicals are within or near ideal range except the total and free chlorine.
All chlorine is essentially near 0. Clear on taylor test tube
CYA: 50
PH: 7.4
ALK: 85
Hardness: 180 (a little low) but I'm more focused on the Chlorine right now
Thanks ahead of time.
