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Well just to update our progress with the pool. I added stabilizer and shocked the heck out of the pool with bleach. and today My readings are: CYA 40 tot chlorine 5.5 free chlorine 5.5 ph 8.1 tot alkalinity 111 adj total alk 99 tot hardness 258 my pool is still...

I did not start any stabilizer as yet. Do you think I should even though I started this pool and last year I added the recomended amounts and only drained to below the skimmer basket for winter? I know it is not showing up on my test though.

My water is now a beautiful cloudy blue. I have been trying to keep the water at shock level but it is hard to tell when my only test kit i have right now does not registar past 5. any ideas how how to judge this. I am making such good progress turning my swamp back to an oasis.

thank you everyone for the help. I jus got back from the pool store and they told me they did not recomend adding stabilizer because i added it last year and it probably not showing up because of the contaminates in the water. here are my numbers they gave me today: cya 0 tot cholorine .3...

No I was not told at pool store to put in stabilizer. hmmm. my pool is 11,500 gal.

I have added 11.5 lbs of balance pak 100 and 3.5 of Lo n Slo. I want to change over to bleach today but I dont know how muchto use. I can't seem to find what level my chlorine need to be to shock. Is it 12?

I am using the hth 6 way test kit I purchased from walmart. These are the numbers I got when I tested today. Maybe I am doing the test wrong. the hardness and alkaline ares the ones where you drop test till color changes. the numbers I got from the pool store last week were cya 0 tot...

When we opened our pool this year there was all kind of leaves that fell in off the cover. I mean alot! We had alot of rain here which prevented us from getting started on cleaning this thing up. Before I knew about this site I took my water to the pool store and they had me add stablizer and...