im having some trouble, my pool water is a cloudy blue color. I shocked it multiple times, ive vaccumed tons and nothing seems to work. I just moved into my new house 7 months ago and when i went to close it it was a grose green color, i got it to be clear and then i covered it for the winter. The pool is brand new it hasnt been used in a few years. When i pulled the cover off 2 weeks ago i could see the bottom an seen it had layers of sludge on the bottom, so i bought the dolphin vaccum got it all sucked up but now i have been fighting the cloudyness. Ive taken samples to the pool store an done everything they said but nothing is working. I took a sample to a different store and they gave me some floc so i will be doing that tomorrow. I can see some white particles floating but it never goes away. Ive included a pic of my numbers the 1st pool store printed out for me
Help! Brand new to the pool world
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GOONiE
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I just went through this... I'm amazed that pool stores all give a FC range of 2-4 when the fc/cya chart says you should be a 6ish.
Don't trust pool store results, get a tf-100 kit.
For now, add a some chlorine. If you don't have some, buy chlorine from home depot or any other store that would carry pool supplies. Check out pool math at the top of the page.
I just went through this... I'm amazed that pool stores all give a FC range of 2-4 when the fc/cya chart says you should be a 6ish.
Don't trust pool store results, get a tf-100 kit.
For now, add a some chlorine. If you don't have some, buy chlorine from home depot or any other store that would carry pool supplies. Check out pool math at the top of the page.
Re: Help! Brand new to the pool world
thanks! How much chlorine would you say? Can i use bleach?
thanks! How much chlorine would you say? Can i use bleach?
GOONiE
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145oz of 6% which is the concentration of clorox but make sure it doesn't have any other laundry additives.
You can get 10% pure chlorox at any store that might sell chlorox. Home depot and other stores like it do.
btw 1 gallon is 128oz
145oz of 6% which is the concentration of clorox but make sure it doesn't have any other laundry additives.
You can get 10% pure chlorox at any store that might sell chlorox. Home depot and other stores like it do.
btw 1 gallon is 128oz
Re: Help! Brand new to the pool world
I was wondering what happened? I put flock in my pool late last night and checked it this morning an i was able to see the bottom and i vaccumed on waste and everything was fine, came home from my daughters tball game and its cloudy again!! Posted a new pic of my numbers on my other post
I was wondering what happened? I put flock in my pool late last night and checked it this morning an i was able to see the bottom and i vaccumed on waste and everything was fine, came home from my daughters tball game and its cloudy again!! Posted a new pic of my numbers on my other post
DeanP66
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Don't use that floc, unless you have a way to vacuum to waste. You don't want the floc going through your filter. It could gum it up badly. TFP generally doesn't recommend using floc. It's not necessary. We don't trust pool store testing. It is generally very unreliable. We generally recommend testing your own water with a quality test kit. The two we recommend are the TF-100 and the Taylor K2006C. They are the only two that include the quality FAS-DPD chlorine test. All other kits use an inferior and less accurate color matching kit that generally only goes up to only 5 PPM. If your pool is cloudy or or has some algae, you need to perform a SLAM. It's a process where you elevate your FC levels with liquid chlorine to a shock level (based on your CYA), and then maintain it there by testing and redosing every couple of hours. The more often you can test and redose, the faster the SLAM will go.
Don't use that floc, unless you have a way to vacuum to waste. You don't want the floc going through your filter. It could gum it up badly. TFP generally doesn't recommend using floc. It's not necessary. We don't trust pool store testing. It is generally very unreliable. We generally recommend testing your own water with a quality test kit. The two we recommend are the TF-100 and the Taylor K2006C. They are the only two that include the quality FAS-DPD chlorine test. All other kits use an inferior and less accurate color matching kit that generally only goes up to only 5 PPM. If your pool is cloudy or or has some algae, you need to perform a SLAM. It's a process where you elevate your FC levels with liquid chlorine to a shock level (based on your CYA), and then maintain it there by testing and redosing every couple of hours. The more often you can test and redose, the faster the SLAM will go.
Re: Help! Brand new to the pool world
just checked my chlorine and ph levels after work tonight at 1045pm and my chlorine level went back down to .5 an my ph stayed the same all day at 6.8 . I had already put ph increase once in the morning at 1.5 cups. So i just put another gallon of chlorine in the pool tonite. Going to check numbers in the morning. My cya today was a 50
just checked my chlorine and ph levels after work tonight at 1045pm and my chlorine level went back down to .5 an my ph stayed the same all day at 6.8 . I had already put ph increase once in the morning at 1.5 cups. So i just put another gallon of chlorine in the pool tonite. Going to check numbers in the morning. My cya today was a 50