Recent content by skeltah

Just thought id stop by and thank you guys for the help.. and post a couple pictures of my pools progress from swamp to pool. :-D my swamp.. after a day and just a couple gallons of bleach/scrubbing/vacuuming :wink: another day, more scrubbing/bleach This is about where I was when I...

Thanks for your help.. I'll let you know how it goes with the new shock levels.

Those ******** at the pool store had me put in more stabalizer when my CYA was at 30 last week.

What is a target CYA level? 30?

~40k gallon in ground Concrete/Blue Stone pool TR-100 Sand Filter, Pentair Whisperflo 2 speed pump. Its not a salt water pool.

I've been using %6 bleach.

Went to the pool store and had them test the water to get exact results.. Temp: 78 Saturation Idx -0.5 TDS 400 CYA 70 Tot Chlorine 3.7 free Chlorine 3.7 PH 7.5 Tot Alk 93 Adj Total Alk 72 Tot. Hardness 95 Last night, i shocked/brushed/vacuumed the pool again. I also put in 10lbs of BP300...

Those numbers are approx as im stuck with test strips until my kit arrives.

TC drops more than FC... They havent been in a 1 to 10 ratio for me. After i shock the pool, the FC gets to 10 as does the TC. But then overnight TC drops to ~3 while FC remains constant till the sun hits it. I havent been watching the PSI as closely as I should.. After back washing its...

TC has been at 3ppm and FC holds steady overnight. I've been backwashing once every 3 or so days... or when the pressure gets to around 35psi.

I opened my pool a week and a half ago... It was a swamp like it is every year at opening due to a stone fixture that makes it impossible to keep leaves/debris from entering. That issue aside. After vacuuming/shocking/brushing the pool daily my water is still cloudy. I've tried adding DE to...