I went up to the cottage for a couple days and upon my return the water has become fairly cloudy in my pool. It is not that bad and we still swam in it.
The pool was covered for 2 days and it was very hot over the weekend, we think the pool pump stopped circulating water because we had a power outage and the breaker tripped. We have a chlorinator in the pump house so I assumed the chlorine level dropped because of the lack of circulating the chlorine. Seems to me that the chlorine all evaporated.
The test strip reads 0 FC, I turned the Chlorinator on high and added a litre of bleach on sunday also put the pump on full speed to circulate the water, it hasn't cleared up so I added another litre of bleach today to see if it starts to clear. How long should it take to get the FC level back up...assuming by CYA level are at the proper level ? I assume if it is taking to long my CYA is too high and I should start draining some water tonight and shock with more bleach. I also have not put my solar cover back on since Sunday, should I be covering the pool to avoid the sun from burning up the chlorine when I shock ?
I used Power Chlor from Biogaurd when I opened the pool and it cleared up in 1-2 days as it was slightly cloudy....my issue with that is if I use it again my CYA will go higher, does the Power Chlor have stabilizers in it ?
I haven't yet invested in a test kit because they are so expensive in Canada but I know I should. These test strips really suck ! I will be looking at ebay, to bad the TFTestkits are not available in Canada
Any recommendations would be greatly helpful,
Thanks,
The pool was covered for 2 days and it was very hot over the weekend, we think the pool pump stopped circulating water because we had a power outage and the breaker tripped. We have a chlorinator in the pump house so I assumed the chlorine level dropped because of the lack of circulating the chlorine. Seems to me that the chlorine all evaporated.
The test strip reads 0 FC, I turned the Chlorinator on high and added a litre of bleach on sunday also put the pump on full speed to circulate the water, it hasn't cleared up so I added another litre of bleach today to see if it starts to clear. How long should it take to get the FC level back up...assuming by CYA level are at the proper level ? I assume if it is taking to long my CYA is too high and I should start draining some water tonight and shock with more bleach. I also have not put my solar cover back on since Sunday, should I be covering the pool to avoid the sun from burning up the chlorine when I shock ?
I used Power Chlor from Biogaurd when I opened the pool and it cleared up in 1-2 days as it was slightly cloudy....my issue with that is if I use it again my CYA will go higher, does the Power Chlor have stabilizers in it ?
I haven't yet invested in a test kit because they are so expensive in Canada but I know I should. These test strips really suck ! I will be looking at ebay, to bad the TFTestkits are not available in Canada
Any recommendations would be greatly helpful,
Thanks,