15K gal pool and had about 15-20 people in there the whole time from about 3 p.m. Sunday until about midnight. Chlorine was at 4 before the party. PH was 7.5. CYA 45. T/A 90. After they were in there for a few hours I saw the pool clouding and added a pound of shock. I put the brisket on the night before and got up at 5 a.m. to check on it Sunday morning before the party. Checked the chemicals and all was beautiful. Pool was crystal. Wrapped the brisket about 7 a.m. and gave it until 9:00...almost 11 hours at 225 degrees, but it was a HUGE trimmed brisket, which turned out perfectly by the way.
Anyway, they arrived about 3:00 p.m. Sunday and by 3:15 I had 14 people in the pool. I was only expecting 10-12 people the whole afternoon and evening for my son's party, as that is usually what he has to show up. Looked like a darn wave pool in a water park. People were all over the place. LOL At around 8:00 I tested the water and the chlorine had dropped significantly to barely reading 1, so I put 2 lbs. of shock in the deep end as they were staying in the shallow end. I hoped that would clear up the cloudiness, and it did some once the chlorine disbursed. I'm exhausted and go to bed about 10:00. Get up Monday morning and it's cloudy as heck. Test the water and I get basically no chlorine reading at all. I'd probably get more out of testing tap water. 5 drops and she's clear.
I put 4# of cal hypo in there when I get home Monday night and Tuesday morning she's pretty clear, not crystal as it has been. Quite a bit of junk on the bottom after running the pump all night and bringing it up to 5 or so. I'm fairly pleased. I get home this evening and it's a cloudy mess. Been running the X8 since about 5:00 p.m....I didn't get home til about 9:00. Did a backwash, did a rinse, checked the chemicals and FC is at 3 and PH is right almost exactly at 7.5. Did no other tests this evening. My chems are basically good, without running a full test. CYA shouldn't have changed. I KNOW I have to run a full test of the chems.
How does one prepare for such a huge load on a pool? Do you just shock it up crazy and ruin lots of swimsuits? It's cloudy as heck right now, but after backwashing and rinsing I hope that clears by morning. It was just a LOT of people in a small pool. 15-20 people in a 15K gal pool for that many hours is bound to cause problems. Not really sure how to handle that in the future. Any ideas?
JJ
Anyway, they arrived about 3:00 p.m. Sunday and by 3:15 I had 14 people in the pool. I was only expecting 10-12 people the whole afternoon and evening for my son's party, as that is usually what he has to show up. Looked like a darn wave pool in a water park. People were all over the place. LOL At around 8:00 I tested the water and the chlorine had dropped significantly to barely reading 1, so I put 2 lbs. of shock in the deep end as they were staying in the shallow end. I hoped that would clear up the cloudiness, and it did some once the chlorine disbursed. I'm exhausted and go to bed about 10:00. Get up Monday morning and it's cloudy as heck. Test the water and I get basically no chlorine reading at all. I'd probably get more out of testing tap water. 5 drops and she's clear.
I put 4# of cal hypo in there when I get home Monday night and Tuesday morning she's pretty clear, not crystal as it has been. Quite a bit of junk on the bottom after running the pump all night and bringing it up to 5 or so. I'm fairly pleased. I get home this evening and it's a cloudy mess. Been running the X8 since about 5:00 p.m....I didn't get home til about 9:00. Did a backwash, did a rinse, checked the chemicals and FC is at 3 and PH is right almost exactly at 7.5. Did no other tests this evening. My chems are basically good, without running a full test. CYA shouldn't have changed. I KNOW I have to run a full test of the chems.
How does one prepare for such a huge load on a pool? Do you just shock it up crazy and ruin lots of swimsuits? It's cloudy as heck right now, but after backwashing and rinsing I hope that clears by morning. It was just a LOT of people in a small pool. 15-20 people in a 15K gal pool for that many hours is bound to cause problems. Not really sure how to handle that in the future. Any ideas?
JJ
