Hello TFP community -
I'm a excited new first time pool owner - bought a new home in Sep 2016 with a truly awesome pool. Had a pool service up until three months ago, until when the leaves and pollen became heavy, and the pool guy started showing up less and less frequently until one day he just quit showing up. Panicked, I went to the pool store, they sold me a case of dichlor shock and phosphate remover. Not knowing any better, I netted, vacuumed, and shocked the pool as per their instructions, the water did clear up, but knowing that I needed to learn about pools fast, found this site and realized I may just have screwed up big time. I've been slowly fixing my mistakes by only using 12% bleach, completely turned off the tablet chlorinator so as to not add any more CYA, started doing my own testing at home using a Taylor K-2006 test kit, the testing results have gradually improved but now it is time to start swimming and I need advice on the best course of action to get things normalized.
So here are my measurements as of this morning:
pH - 8.0
TA - 180
CH - 850
CYA - 100 (down from almost 200 after I added the shock, thanks to some heavy rain)
FC - 5
CC - 0
Any advice will be appreciated.
I'm a excited new first time pool owner - bought a new home in Sep 2016 with a truly awesome pool. Had a pool service up until three months ago, until when the leaves and pollen became heavy, and the pool guy started showing up less and less frequently until one day he just quit showing up. Panicked, I went to the pool store, they sold me a case of dichlor shock and phosphate remover. Not knowing any better, I netted, vacuumed, and shocked the pool as per their instructions, the water did clear up, but knowing that I needed to learn about pools fast, found this site and realized I may just have screwed up big time. I've been slowly fixing my mistakes by only using 12% bleach, completely turned off the tablet chlorinator so as to not add any more CYA, started doing my own testing at home using a Taylor K-2006 test kit, the testing results have gradually improved but now it is time to start swimming and I need advice on the best course of action to get things normalized.
So here are my measurements as of this morning:
pH - 8.0
TA - 180
CH - 850
CYA - 100 (down from almost 200 after I added the shock, thanks to some heavy rain)
FC - 5
CC - 0
Any advice will be appreciated.