Recent content by buckshotsmom

Yes, you should continue to shock and keep the shock levels up until it holds over night (no more then .5 loss). Use the pool calculator here http://www.poolcalculator.com/ to determine what level of shock you need to be at and how much to put in to achieve that level. I don't think you need to...

I did notice that the drop seemed to hang on to the tip, I thought this would make the drop larger then normal, which I would think would give me a lower reading, maybe that is what happened on the first test, I will start to wipe the tip from now on and pay more attention to the size of the...

I just finished shocking my pool with bleach, 2 days ago I put in 4 lbs of CYA and enough acid to bring the PH down from 8 to 7.2, my TA at the time was 120. When I just checked it my PH is at 7.2 but my TA went up to 140, my FC is still a bit high at 10. We had some rain, less then a 1/2 inch...

I thought the same thing Richard, thats why I went back 1 hour later and retested, but I got the same reading. In the 5 years that I have had this pool, I have never seen a loss in FC this fast and I have had some real messy openings. This year the water looked really good. I guess thats why we...

My FC has now dropped to 11. Clearly I have organics that are eating up my chlorine. I calculated the rate of loss and it seems to me that if the bleach was "bad" then I would have had a larger % of loss after I added the second dose. My calculations are as follows, let me know if anyone finds...

Yes, I agree, my CYA is lower, but at this point would that have much of a difference in the rate of FC loss if the sun is not shining? I do have 8 lbs of Conditioner I was planning on putting in,(maybe even more to bring it up to around 70) but with out the sun for a few days I thought I...

I do not know what the CYA level is, at the end of last year it was around 40 and this year I had to replace about 1/4 of the water. No sun today, cloudy and rainy. If I had a lot of organics wouldn't I have a CC level? It just seems like a fast loss after only 2 hours and the water was really...

The Pool Calculator estimates 21,100 gal. I put 5 Jugs( 182 fl. oz. each) in the pool to start and got a reading of 7, then I put another 3 jugs in and got a reading of 15.

First, I want to say that I am a new member, but have been lurking here for several years. You all have taught me the BBB method and I love it! Thank you. I just opened up my pool and was pleased to find it quite clean. I bought some bleach from Walmart to shock the pool, the brand is "Good...