Recent content by Snap96

For future reference, I would not use anything unless there was a % on the bottle since the pool math calculator takes the % into consideration. If you think you are using 6% and the bleach is actually 2%, you'll never do the SLAM correctly. And considering I just went through a 69 gallon...

Never got around to deep cleaning the filter since it's been raining on/off the last week. It's something I plan on doing at some point. Once I do, I'll report back. I'm still confused as to what caused this mess and what exactly ate 69 jugs of bleach. Whatever caused that cloudiness appears...

This is truly bizarre... So the FC drops from 21 to 11 overnight with the auto cover closed. I decided to not add bleach. It's been drizzling/raining all morning since my reading at 7:30am. Rain finally stopped so I opened the pool to just see where I'm at and here comes the bizarre...

Well...just when I thought it was getting better 8:30pm....21 7:30am...11 I'm really at a loss as to what is going on. Deep clean of the filter is next buy my wife is going to shot me when she sees me cutting the pipes (all pvc connections and no unions). It's raining so not sure when this...

The saga continues, but I'm feeling a little better... 7:15am...20.5...added 1 jug 2:30pm...18...added 1.5 jugs How much FC do I lose to the sun? Considering the pool has been open since this morning with full sun I feel as if I'm not losing as much to whatever is in the pool. I did read...

Got in the pool last night..... The 2 wall drains look fine and didn't noticing anything. Unscrewed the wall skimmer plate and I did notice some gunk/build-up behind it and cleaned it up. Inspected underneath the cover and it looked fine. I did notice underneath the cover's metal tube there...

No clorox...just plain regular. Right now I’m using Valley View 8.25% from Farm and Fleet.

Considering it looks like there is no end in sight, would it make sense to just bump the FC up to a much higher number (40) so that I'm above SLAM level for a longer period of time and there is a higher concentration of FC?

This is really baffling. There has be an enormous amount of algae growth somewhere to eat that much bleach and still be hungry. I've lost around 230 FC in 5 days.

I'll look at the lights again tonight, but I don't think they are the kind I can remove from the wall. I have PAL-2T4 lights and the manual says to drain below light to remove.

This is getting stupid now. Latest reading is 19. I added nothing since the last reading and I loss 4.5 FC in 1 3/4 hours.

1. We’re using the numbers on the side and the dot currently disappears when at 60. For FC, we take the number of drops and divide by 2 since each drop is 0.5. 2. We have not done a deep clean of the sand and was something I’ve thought of, but that would need to wait until the weekend. It has...

Just tested and I'm at 23.5....pool has been open and it's sunny out. I added 3 jugs of bleach 5 hours ago which added roughly 12.75 of FC. My rough calculation shows that I'm losing just over 1 unit of FC every hour and it shows no signs of slowing down. At this point, I might as well dump a...

64 jugs and still going. This is just plain nuts. The water is crystal clear and I didn't see any signs of algae anywhere. Here are the latest readings... 8/28...9:00pm...25...added nothing 8/29...7:30am...14.5...added 3 jugs of 8.25 and 1 jug of 6 8/29...12:30pm...26...added 1 jug of 8.25...

I'll be checking everything tonight for sure. Unfortunately, I can't find the higher percentage liquid chlorine around me. Our stores have already pulled pool supplies. I'd have to drain the pool a couple feet to remove lights so let's hope that is not the problem. I was able to locate 8.25%...