Chlorine not holding ?

[breal951]

I have been working on this pool 28,000 gallon for about three weeks now, and can Not get a
Chlorine reading of any kind ? I have added the proper amount of Conditioner the Ph is reading
at 7.6 and the TA is at 100 what is going on. I have added 3 gallons of liquid chlorine and 4 Tabs
just to try to get a reading and nothing . What is going on any help would be Great Thanks.


Troubled

 

[JohnT]

Welcome to TFP!

Three gallons of chlorine could be used up in an hour in a pool with algae. Check out SLAMing Your Pool and follow the process. You should see chlorine immediately.

 

[Catanzaro]

How are you testing? Do you have one of the recommended test kits? 3 gallons of what % strength liquid chlorine? Please post up a full set of results.

In order for the TFP community to assist you in clearing up your pool, we need some information from your own test kit.

 

[breal951]

I am using liquid chlorine full strength, I have brushed all the algae and cleaned the filters twice
it is Staying algae free at the moment but getting cloudy at times ?

 

[breal951]

I am using liquid chlorine, not sure what the strength is, I am using a Taylor test kit.

 

[pooldv]

Something is consuming the chlorine, probably algae or ammonia. The solution is to keep adding more liquid chlorine or bleach and SLAM your pool following this process, Pool School - SLAM - Shock Level And Maintain

 

[MarianParoo]

What is the CYA level?

 

[JohnT]

I am using liquid chlorine full strength, I have brushed all the algae and cleaned the filters twice
it is Staying algae free at the moment but getting cloudy at times ?

Why it gets cloudy, it will use up more chlorine than you've added in just an hour. You should be testing every hour until most of the chlorine is still there from one hour to the next. Then you can start waiting a little longer between tests.

 

[Paul.]

Hi breal951,

Would you mind posting your full tests results?

It is possible that you have algae growing even if you don't see the bloom accumulation yet.
You might need to slam the pool, but knowing your full results, especially CYA, we can guide you better.

Also, what is your primary method of chlorination, I see that you are using liquid chlorine and tabs as well. What Tabs are you using?

 

[breal951]

The Ph is 7.6 the TA is 100 and the CYA is 100 as I added conditioner about three weeks ago and the pool is
28,000 gallons, Thanks

 

[Paul.]

On my test kit, 100 cya is the maximum range, ( what test kit do you use)?
Sadly your CYA might be higher than that. With such a High CYA, it may be impractical to SLAM. With that high of CYA and the cloudiness, you are not getting enough sanitation to kill the algae.
You can retry the test but with 1:1 pool water and tap water, multiplying the result by 2.

If the CYA is still over 100, you might have to drain some of the pool water to get the CYA to a level that we can manage and then SLAM to kill the algae.
The tabs you are using increase the CYA. Maybe removing them completely and switching to bleach may be your best bet.

 

[singingpond]

Why did you add conditioner (CYA presumably) recently? Did someone advise doing so?

 

[breal951]

I checked the conditioner and it was only reading around 40 so I added 5 pounds.

 

[PAGirl]

What are you using to test? How long after adding are you testing?

 

[singingpond]

5 lbs. in 28,000 gallons shouldn't have raised CYA from 40 to 100+.

How are you measuring CYA levels (and other test results)?

Unless you are using a salt water generator for chlorination (are you?), CYA at 40 would have been pretty good...

 

[MarianParoo]

Yes. You said you had a Taylor kit. Which model?