Recent content by deepwater01

I drained 1/3 of the pool...refilled with water...it rained 1 inch, so I had to drain 1 additional inch. I've been adding 12% liquid shock ....4 cases on Saturday....non chlorine shock yesterday (3 lbs)....today I added 4 lbs. CYA - 60 ppm (the home test is very difficult to get an actual...

How many inches would you drain? Again I was initially told the whole pool....

Got My kit still having problems with chlorine demand! Topics Merged for Consistency As of June 3, 2010 - Combined Chlorine - 8.0 Free Chlorine - 0.5 Total Chlorine - 8.5 CYA - 110 Total Alk. - 170 Borates 30 pH - 7.2 As of this AM June 4, 2010 Free Chlorine - 0.5 Combined Chlorine 8.5...

Took my water in (NOT to the place that initially helped me open this year). Here's what the readings came back in as (no test strips used - which I realize now are worthless). Free Chlorine - 3.1 ppm Total Chlorine - 7.3 ppm Combined Chlorine - 4.2 ppm pH - 7.1 (thank you everyone ...

This is only our 2nd season with a 22,500 gallon inground pool - we thought to play it safe and have a pool service help open and balance our pool by Memorial Day. I knew things were going wrong when the pool was green and getting worse about 1.5 weeks ago. I kept asking for a chlorine demand...