Hi everyone
Great forum you have going here. Long time pool owner in Florida and now Alabama.
I uncovered this year and was presented a mess of a pool, worst I can recall ever having to deal with. Started out a week ago by throwing in some snake oil from Walmart and a couple bags of shock which got me nowhere, I think this pool just laughed at me.
Next stop was the Jewelry Store, I mean Pool store, told them what was going on and they did what they always do which is run the water sample in their fancy computer and $200 later I walked out of the store.
15,000 Gal / Oval / Vinyl, Sand Filter / 1.5hp pump (new) / Polaris Cleaner on 1hp pump
May 6 Test 1
FC - 0
TC - 0
CC - O
PH - 8
TA - 57
CH - 55
CA - 96
I knew I didn't want to throw in a lot of expensive "Poolife" products or I went with just adding the 4 bags of shock she said I needed and brushed everything down. Woke up the next day to a green pool that didn't look any different than the day before.
May 7 Test 2
FC - 0.18
TC - 0.32
CC - O.14
PH - 7.9
TA - 60
CH - 105
CA - 94
Walked away this time with 5lbs of shock and 250lbs of sand. Changed out / cleaned the sand filter and added the 5lbs of shock. Let that cook for awhile.
May 8 Sunday
Hmmm still have a pretty green pool and I'm now out about $800. Sunday was spent looking at the pretty green pool and searching the internet for help and what do I find? You guys of course and some great YouTube vids on how to beat back the green monster. My big takeaway was 1) FC, 2) CYA, 3) SLAM and how the three work together.
May 9 Test 3 10AM
FC - 1.58
TC - 2.24
CC - O.66
PH - 7.8
TA - 69
CH - 122
CA - 78
Now this is my third trip into the Jewelry Store and the same girl has run all the samples and knows I have a Algae problem. She tells me my FC is good and wants to sell me some more snake oil. When I asked her about my high CYA she said we don't worry about that until its above 150.
I thank her for her time and tell I good on pool products for this trip. Done burning money in their store.
Went back to work and ordered a Taylor K-2006C test kit but it won't arrive until Friday or Tuesday next week.
1) Stopped at Walmart and picked up 10 Gal of 10% bleach
2) Drained 40% of water out of pool
3) Filled Pool (all nighter)
4) Added 5 gal of bleach to pool
May 10
I didn't have a test kit yet so from here forward I'm using WAG (wild *** guess) procedures to SLAM my pool. Came home to a somewhat blue pool and added 1 gal of bleach followed up with brushing.
May 11 Test 4 10AM
FC - 12.47
TC - 13.13
CC - O.66
PH - 8.1
TA - 72
CH - 104
CA - 52
Arrived home today with a very blue but cloudy pool, added another gal of bleach and brushed. I still need to work on my balance but for now I'm just going to WAG it until my K-2006 arrives. I will say the pool is 200% better than it was before I found this website.
Thanks
Dennis
Great forum you have going here. Long time pool owner in Florida and now Alabama.
I uncovered this year and was presented a mess of a pool, worst I can recall ever having to deal with. Started out a week ago by throwing in some snake oil from Walmart and a couple bags of shock which got me nowhere, I think this pool just laughed at me.
Next stop was the Jewelry Store, I mean Pool store, told them what was going on and they did what they always do which is run the water sample in their fancy computer and $200 later I walked out of the store.
15,000 Gal / Oval / Vinyl, Sand Filter / 1.5hp pump (new) / Polaris Cleaner on 1hp pump
May 6 Test 1
FC - 0
TC - 0
CC - O
PH - 8
TA - 57
CH - 55
CA - 96
I knew I didn't want to throw in a lot of expensive "Poolife" products or I went with just adding the 4 bags of shock she said I needed and brushed everything down. Woke up the next day to a green pool that didn't look any different than the day before.
May 7 Test 2
FC - 0.18
TC - 0.32
CC - O.14
PH - 7.9
TA - 60
CH - 105
CA - 94
Walked away this time with 5lbs of shock and 250lbs of sand. Changed out / cleaned the sand filter and added the 5lbs of shock. Let that cook for awhile.
May 8 Sunday
Hmmm still have a pretty green pool and I'm now out about $800. Sunday was spent looking at the pretty green pool and searching the internet for help and what do I find? You guys of course and some great YouTube vids on how to beat back the green monster. My big takeaway was 1) FC, 2) CYA, 3) SLAM and how the three work together.
May 9 Test 3 10AM
FC - 1.58
TC - 2.24
CC - O.66
PH - 7.8
TA - 69
CH - 122
CA - 78
Now this is my third trip into the Jewelry Store and the same girl has run all the samples and knows I have a Algae problem. She tells me my FC is good and wants to sell me some more snake oil. When I asked her about my high CYA she said we don't worry about that until its above 150.
I thank her for her time and tell I good on pool products for this trip. Done burning money in their store.
Went back to work and ordered a Taylor K-2006C test kit but it won't arrive until Friday or Tuesday next week.
1) Stopped at Walmart and picked up 10 Gal of 10% bleach
2) Drained 40% of water out of pool
3) Filled Pool (all nighter)
4) Added 5 gal of bleach to pool
May 10
I didn't have a test kit yet so from here forward I'm using WAG (wild *** guess) procedures to SLAM my pool. Came home to a somewhat blue pool and added 1 gal of bleach followed up with brushing.
May 11 Test 4 10AM
FC - 12.47
TC - 13.13
CC - O.66
PH - 8.1
TA - 72
CH - 104
CA - 52
Arrived home today with a very blue but cloudy pool, added another gal of bleach and brushed. I still need to work on my balance but for now I'm just going to WAG it until my K-2006 arrives. I will say the pool is 200% better than it was before I found this website.
Thanks
Dennis
