high chlorine

Hello again, We just opened our pool in CO for the 4th season and the chemicals seem to be at their worst. The company that opened our pool on Monday said the Ph was really high (not sure if/how they tested it) and put 64 oz of 20' muriatic acid in. They also put in 2 lbs of 54% cal-hypo...

Send help! Of course I found this wonderful group AFTER possibly making mistakes. We just moved to a house with an in ground pool. It’s clean and beautiful looking. Seems well maintained, but I don’t know much in the way of pools. I downloaded the Clorox pool app and based on results it told...

I learned a few years ago from this forum that swimmers need not wait for chlorine to drop to 4ppm after a shock treatment to use the pool. I've seen answers from TFP experts say numbers as high as 17ppm of free and total chlorine was just fine. So today I was in a Facebook group and a person...

Pool is bouncing back from being swamp green. FC: 15 TC: 15 pH: 7.5 TA: 34 CYA: <67 Want to add clarifier to my cloudy pool (Cartridge filter pool pump) but am not sure if its okay to add with such high chlorine. I know about baking soda being able to raise the alkalinity in pool. I Wanted the...

Hi there everyone! I'm a new home/pool owner and new to the thread - have been lurking around and not sure if I'm seeing anything specific to my problem so here goes... (I apologize, this is extremely long) ----Backstory---- We moved into our home a little over 4 weeks ago and the pool has been...

Hi, I’m a relatively new pool owner (1yr) looking for some advice on what went wrong with my two attempted Iron stain treatments and how to fix the now strange chlorine levels. Sorry for the lengthy post but it’s a complex tale.... I have a 10,000 gal salt pool with SWG that had iron stains...