2nd season with a pool, having some some trouble again. Last year, I got a house with a pool, and non-working DE filter (collapsed grates). Fixed the filter, came to TFP SLAMed it and all went well. It took me a couple of tries to figure out how often I had to cycle the pumps. The answer was twice a day, since it's an infinity pool and the overflows would always deplete chlorine first and go green. After it got away from me a couple of times, I figured out a schedule and a dosage and things settled for the whole season.
Although I ran the filter daily, I got behind on my chlorine over the winter and eventually it got down to nothing. The pool still didn't go green because it was cold. The water is clear, and I'm going through the slam procedure, but the chlorine consumption won't decline, I need to keep adding about a gallon a day. Last year my CYA was 70 and I slammed around 20, this year CYA is 35 (per TF100 and LPS) and I'm trying to SLAM around 14 but I'm not seeing that slow steady decrease in chlorine consumption. Should I just use the very high chlorine levels that I used successfully last time? Could my lower CYA be allowing the chlorine to deplete so much more quickly? Temps are still cool, pool is 72.
thanks,
c
Although I ran the filter daily, I got behind on my chlorine over the winter and eventually it got down to nothing. The pool still didn't go green because it was cold. The water is clear, and I'm going through the slam procedure, but the chlorine consumption won't decline, I need to keep adding about a gallon a day. Last year my CYA was 70 and I slammed around 20, this year CYA is 35 (per TF100 and LPS) and I'm trying to SLAM around 14 but I'm not seeing that slow steady decrease in chlorine consumption. Should I just use the very high chlorine levels that I used successfully last time? Could my lower CYA be allowing the chlorine to deplete so much more quickly? Temps are still cool, pool is 72.
thanks,
c