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First of all, Thanks so much to EVERYONE for all of their quick and informational responses I have gotten from all my questions! I recently posted about having the 36,000 gallon pool. I feel like I'm constantly dumping tons and tons of bleach into the pool. It looks great but is not holding...

I thought I was doing pretty good with the BBB method, but I feel like I'm dumping a lot of chlorine in my pool to keep my chlorine levels up. In the beginning, I had no CYA in my pool, but recently added 20lbs and waiting for CYA Regeant to arrive to retest. Right now I add about 2 of the big...

Thanks so much for all the help. Yes, I was shaking it, however the chlorine colors got darker, rather than lighter which is a good thing. I was hoping you all would tell me that waiting a few seconds would be the correct results. In the future, I'll just swirl it. One more question, when I...

Okay, I'm still new to all this testing but I'm wondering how to check the chlorine levels in my water with the Leslie's basic OTO test kit. When I put the 5 drops in, cap it, and then shake it, my chlorine reads .5 ppm and then like 20 seconds later it reads around the 1-2 ppm color. Which...

Thanks so much for the quick reply. I'm sorry I forgot to mention my pool!! I was in such a hurry to put my numbers out. I have a 36,000 gal. plaster pool, kidney shaped. Our water is disgusting because our pool covered ripped. There's no way I could wait a week to backwash. At the present...

:roll: Okay, bare wth me since I'm new to doing all of this water testing on my own. Here are the numbers I got when I tested my pool the day after opening and adding 2 gallons of bleach. I also went to the pool store tonight and got them to test my water too. Our FC and CC numbers are WAY...