Hi all,
Been browsing here a couple days and think I read just about every article in the pool school section. Here is the background on "my" pool.
I just started renting this home and since I've never had to maintain a pool before I had a local company come out to do a one time cleaning and show me what I needed to do to maintain it. The pool itself had a fairly decent covering of what the tech told me was mustard algae but otherwise appeared to be in pretty good shape. She did some tests, told me the salt was low and a couple others (can't remember now). She also vacuumed the pool to waste. A couple days later the algae appeared to making a comeback so I vacuumed to waste again (dreading the coming water bill) and took a sample to the local pool store for testing. This is what the results were:
FC - 1.0
TC - 1.0
CC - 0.0
pH - 7.8
TA - 75
CH - 150
CYA - 50
Salt - 2500
So based on that (and before I knew it could it cheaper from reading here) I bought some more salt, TA increaser, and CYA. I added all that a couple days ago. It appears that the algae is not coming back but now the deep end of the pool (about 7.5ft) is pretty murky. The shallow end looks very clear. I am going to take a sample back to the store later today or tomorrow morning but I'm wondering what might be going on here. Should I just bite the bullet and shock the pool? I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the clarity issue since one end looks really clear and the other end is not. I will update later with the new test results (I have a test kit that "came with the house" but it doesnt test CYA). I need to figure this out soon since I will have company this weekend and need to figure out if I can do what needs to be done in time.
Been browsing here a couple days and think I read just about every article in the pool school section. Here is the background on "my" pool.
I just started renting this home and since I've never had to maintain a pool before I had a local company come out to do a one time cleaning and show me what I needed to do to maintain it. The pool itself had a fairly decent covering of what the tech told me was mustard algae but otherwise appeared to be in pretty good shape. She did some tests, told me the salt was low and a couple others (can't remember now). She also vacuumed the pool to waste. A couple days later the algae appeared to making a comeback so I vacuumed to waste again (dreading the coming water bill) and took a sample to the local pool store for testing. This is what the results were:
FC - 1.0
TC - 1.0
CC - 0.0
pH - 7.8
TA - 75
CH - 150
CYA - 50
Salt - 2500
So based on that (and before I knew it could it cheaper from reading here) I bought some more salt, TA increaser, and CYA. I added all that a couple days ago. It appears that the algae is not coming back but now the deep end of the pool (about 7.5ft) is pretty murky. The shallow end looks very clear. I am going to take a sample back to the store later today or tomorrow morning but I'm wondering what might be going on here. Should I just bite the bullet and shock the pool? I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the clarity issue since one end looks really clear and the other end is not. I will update later with the new test results (I have a test kit that "came with the house" but it doesnt test CYA). I need to figure this out soon since I will have company this weekend and need to figure out if I can do what needs to be done in time.