Quick question:
Our pool is less than a month old, we are proud first time pool owners, and we have been having heavy rain for the last four days. Today the weather finally cleared so out to the pool I went to check water chemistry and to start cleaning up. I have a 5 way test kit these are the levels I experienced this evening:
FC 1.0
CC between 1.0 - 2.0
PH 8.0 - added 16 oz of muriatic acid to get ph level down at 8pm this evening (will test again tomorrow morning) - Acid demand test called for 1 quart of muriatic acid
Akalinity tested at 150ppm - our water has high alkalinity and we've been working to get it down to normal levels for a couple weeks...it's steadily getting lower witht he muriatic acid.
CYA levels unknown
and Calcium Hardness levels unknown (will get this tested at the pool store this week).
Waiting for my vacuum hose and vacuum head to come in the mail so I can get this crazy dirt out of the pool; however, it was brushed really good.
My question is do I still need to shock the pool because of the heavy rain over the last several days if our chlorine levels look okay?
TIA!
Our pool is less than a month old, we are proud first time pool owners, and we have been having heavy rain for the last four days. Today the weather finally cleared so out to the pool I went to check water chemistry and to start cleaning up. I have a 5 way test kit these are the levels I experienced this evening:
FC 1.0
CC between 1.0 - 2.0
PH 8.0 - added 16 oz of muriatic acid to get ph level down at 8pm this evening (will test again tomorrow morning) - Acid demand test called for 1 quart of muriatic acid
Akalinity tested at 150ppm - our water has high alkalinity and we've been working to get it down to normal levels for a couple weeks...it's steadily getting lower witht he muriatic acid.
CYA levels unknown
and Calcium Hardness levels unknown (will get this tested at the pool store this week).
Waiting for my vacuum hose and vacuum head to come in the mail so I can get this crazy dirt out of the pool; however, it was brushed really good.
My question is do I still need to shock the pool because of the heavy rain over the last several days if our chlorine levels look okay?
TIA!