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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl okay great! I can adjust the jets and make it rain! Thanks Optica!
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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl Water is better, still pretty cloudy, all test are in the good range except alkalinity. I've tested it several times and it reads in the 220-230 range now. PH is 7.4 - when the pool calculator says to lower the PH with muriatic acid...
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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl I'm testing with the Taylor 2006 fas dpd, and I did mean combined chlorine up above. I just tested the water again after work, and low and behold, fac is still at 12 ppm with cc down to ~.5 :) the water looks INFINITELY better now...
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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl I went to the new house and upped the ante on the bleach. I remeasured when I got there and got this: Free cl: 4.0 Total cl: 2.0 Total Alkilinity: 105 pH: 7.2 CYA: 44 So I shocked it up to 20ppm FAC, waited an hour and a half, and...
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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl Yup, I've been raking like there is no tomorrow :) I think I actually caught the "swamp thing" in one of the hundreds of scoops of junk that come from the bottom!
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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl okay, that makes some sense, I just need to keep on attacking, testing, attacking, testing until I deflower the algae bloom? Thanks for the tip on removing the debris on the water - I keep skimming it, and it keeps coming back as...
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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Re: New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Bl Added a picture for good measure
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    New pool owner ...with a case of the "Chlorine Demand Blues"

    Hi Everybody, Just bought my first house with a 20x40 vinyl liner inground pool (~31k gallons -per the guy at the pool store) and they tell me I have "Chlorine Demand." Their advice was that I buy 30-40 lbs of shock to fix it. Free cl: 0.0 Total cl: 1.5 Total Alkilinity: 105 Total Adjusted...