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I was picking up some MA at Leslie's today and after telling them I had switched to liquid chlorine, they mentioned they sell the powder Calcium Hypochlorite without stabilizer. Is there any truth to this? Or if it is true, are there other reasons (besides the CYA) I shouldn't be using the...

Just wanted to thank everyone who responded! I was able to drain my pool a few times and the CYA now sits around 70. I was able to successfully SLAM the pool, (0 CC, Clear water, passed the overnight test) and the pool hasn't looked better! Thanks again!

I really appreciate all the advise! You guys are bringing me around to the idea of draining the pool. I also bought some bleach in the meantime and will stop using the tablets and powder. We do want to install a SWG and probably plan on doing that over the winter when the pool is not in use...

Yeah, disease is no good. So based on the calculator, I should drain around half of the pool? Here a link to the https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=52498EC5F279EE06!9063&authkey=!AHtNFInoqyR5FEI&v=3&ithint=photo%2cjpg

The weird thing is that the pool looks amazingly clear. Here is a pic...

I got the 170 ppm level by diluting the pool sample with tap water and then testing the normal way. I found the instructions on here. With only about a month or so of swimming weather, would it be ok or safe to just add the liquid chlorine (how much?) It would be much easier to do the draining...

Hi Everyone! We just bought this house with an awesome pool. We've tried calling a few pool cleaning companies, but can't get a call back or have been flaky, so we've decided to tackle it ourselves. Problem is we have extremely high CYA. Using a taylor test kit the previous owners left us...