Hi everyone! Love this group and the TFP methodology.
I just can’t seem to avoid adding chlorine to my new pool. Link to all my logs are here. I’ve done my best to keep accurate logs so you can see what I’m dealing with.
Background: Pool build completed Christmas of 2022. Normal 30 day start up from the builder. After 30 days they added salt and turned on the salt cell (intellichlor ic20). After 2 months running it on the cell 100% and maintaining with liquid chlorine and me testing like a madman every day wondering where the chlorine has gone every 2-3 days I did many tests and took my water to several different pinch a penny and Leslie’s to test for phosphates, metals etc. Nothing of concern came up in their tests. No phosphates ever— we don’t have them in the city water someone told me. The builder then determined my cell was bad and replaced the cell about a month later.
Now: I accidentally flooded my pool by leaving the water running overnight and so this provided me with the opportunity to start from nearly scratch on salt and cya. This was about 5 weeks ago when my new salt cell (ic20) was installed . My cya was under 30 and salt around 3200 after this event and so I added about 5lbs of cya over the course of a week and a half to bring it up to around 60/70 and also added a bag of salt which now has me around 3800-4000 on salt. The cell says maintain 3600 and all the right lights are always on. The new cell was installed March 29th and now here we are 5 weeks later and I’m still dealing with the same /similar issue. I have my pump running 8hrs a day with the cell at 100% and I still need to add at least 64oz or more of liquid chlorine every 3 days or so because my chlorine will get down to 1 and 2. Id like to mention that through this entire time my water is crystal clear and only begins to get cloudy if I don’t manually add liquid chlorine. Oh and I also tested that the new cell is producing chlorine by testing the water away from jets and then water directly from the jets and the chlorine level is nearly 1ppm higher at the jets!
I’ve also tried using only main drain and skimmer for circulation thinking maybe I had poor circulation with the cleaner always going but that didn’t really help either.
Please see my logs mentioned above and all my equipment details in my signature below. Any and everyone I talk to about this whether at a pool store or my dad who knows a lot about pools are all baffled by the fact of where 3+ ppm of chlorine can go over the course of 24 hours and why my chlorine will not stay in the pool, even though I have my cell running at 100% for sufficient time each day. One pool guy even told me my chlorine should be through the roof running it at 100% all the time and adding that much liquid chlorine together.
Any help or guidance is appreciated. I’m also going to upload a screenshot of a recent test from Leslie’s.
I just can’t seem to avoid adding chlorine to my new pool. Link to all my logs are here. I’ve done my best to keep accurate logs so you can see what I’m dealing with.
PoolMath Logs
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Background: Pool build completed Christmas of 2022. Normal 30 day start up from the builder. After 30 days they added salt and turned on the salt cell (intellichlor ic20). After 2 months running it on the cell 100% and maintaining with liquid chlorine and me testing like a madman every day wondering where the chlorine has gone every 2-3 days I did many tests and took my water to several different pinch a penny and Leslie’s to test for phosphates, metals etc. Nothing of concern came up in their tests. No phosphates ever— we don’t have them in the city water someone told me. The builder then determined my cell was bad and replaced the cell about a month later.
Now: I accidentally flooded my pool by leaving the water running overnight and so this provided me with the opportunity to start from nearly scratch on salt and cya. This was about 5 weeks ago when my new salt cell (ic20) was installed . My cya was under 30 and salt around 3200 after this event and so I added about 5lbs of cya over the course of a week and a half to bring it up to around 60/70 and also added a bag of salt which now has me around 3800-4000 on salt. The cell says maintain 3600 and all the right lights are always on. The new cell was installed March 29th and now here we are 5 weeks later and I’m still dealing with the same /similar issue. I have my pump running 8hrs a day with the cell at 100% and I still need to add at least 64oz or more of liquid chlorine every 3 days or so because my chlorine will get down to 1 and 2. Id like to mention that through this entire time my water is crystal clear and only begins to get cloudy if I don’t manually add liquid chlorine. Oh and I also tested that the new cell is producing chlorine by testing the water away from jets and then water directly from the jets and the chlorine level is nearly 1ppm higher at the jets!
I’ve also tried using only main drain and skimmer for circulation thinking maybe I had poor circulation with the cleaner always going but that didn’t really help either.
Please see my logs mentioned above and all my equipment details in my signature below. Any and everyone I talk to about this whether at a pool store or my dad who knows a lot about pools are all baffled by the fact of where 3+ ppm of chlorine can go over the course of 24 hours and why my chlorine will not stay in the pool, even though I have my cell running at 100% for sufficient time each day. One pool guy even told me my chlorine should be through the roof running it at 100% all the time and adding that much liquid chlorine together.
Any help or guidance is appreciated. I’m also going to upload a screenshot of a recent test from Leslie’s.
