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Phew! Thanks!

I am back from 4 day vacation. I had added enough bleach before I left to bring my FC up to shock level, hoping for a level of 22ppm based on my CYA level being 55. I tested today now that I am back from vacation and my numbers are: FC 25, CC 0, PH 7.4 but I know it's inaccurate due to high...

Thank you that was a handy link. I just plugged in the shock level number and PH of 7.2 into poolmath and now I will make the additions of bleach and dry acid to shock the pool til I come home Thursday. Thanks so much everyone. Don't know what I'd do without this site! - - - Updated - - -...

Hi Will be gone for 4 days. There is someone home to put in chemicals if need be but he wont be testing the water. I leave tomorrow. I just tested and current numbers are FC 4.5, CC .5, PH 7.7, TA 160, CYA 55. I am going to add 3.7 oz of bleach and 3 oz dry acid tonight. I usually have to...

Thank you! I forgot about the Chlorine CYA chart. I hope soon this will all become second nature to me. I tested again today and will test everyday. So I tested today and in the math calc I entered 40 as my CYA in both Now and goal column because that's the goal I aimed to reach based on the...

Oh yes thank you. I read that adding CYA will affect the FC. Here I thought I had to wait a week to test again so that the CYA dissolved. But I'll test again today to see how the CYA is affecting the FC and add more bleach according to math calculator. And seems like I should continue...

Thanks for all your help everybody! I don't know what I'd do without this site! I have a Kokido 6 way test. I plan to upgrade soon to either TF-100 or K-2006. I just wanted to get going right away. I had a thought that yesterday I had accidentally poured too much of the bleach in one spot...

Hi This is my first pool. Two days ago filled it with water. Yesterday took tests with 6 way tester and added bleach and baking soda as per the math calculator. Then today I tested again before adding anything more. But so far, both times I tested, the calcium hardness test came out 0. The...