Hello folks,
I need some advice regarding the maintenance of my pool. After several backwashes, I was able to get the pool clean of any visible algae. Last Saturday, I took a water sample down to my local pool store from where I purchased my 21 foot pool. I use a Big Dipper ozone machine. Here were the results:
Alcalinity: 40 ppm
pH: 7.4
Stabilizer (CYA): 50
Chlorine: 0 ppm
I started learning about caring for my pool by reading several threads on this forum. I purchased liquid pool chlorine and poured roughly 2.4 litres into the pool. Also added about 5 kgs of Alca+ to bring up the alkalinity of the water. This was last Saturday.
Today, I added 2.4 litres of liquid chlorine to the pool since I was seeing some traces of algae. I had the water tested tonight and here are the numbers:
Alcalinity: 100 ppm
pH: 8.0
Stabilizer (CYA): 0
Chlorine: 0 ppm
How is it that the CYA and Chlorine (FC) is at 0??
The girl at the counter recommended that I add 800 grams of pH- to lower the pH and that I should shock the pool one a week with 750 grams of chlorine since I'm using the ozone machine and 1 puck per week.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Nick
I need some advice regarding the maintenance of my pool. After several backwashes, I was able to get the pool clean of any visible algae. Last Saturday, I took a water sample down to my local pool store from where I purchased my 21 foot pool. I use a Big Dipper ozone machine. Here were the results:
Alcalinity: 40 ppm
pH: 7.4
Stabilizer (CYA): 50
Chlorine: 0 ppm
I started learning about caring for my pool by reading several threads on this forum. I purchased liquid pool chlorine and poured roughly 2.4 litres into the pool. Also added about 5 kgs of Alca+ to bring up the alkalinity of the water. This was last Saturday.
Today, I added 2.4 litres of liquid chlorine to the pool since I was seeing some traces of algae. I had the water tested tonight and here are the numbers:
Alcalinity: 100 ppm
pH: 8.0
Stabilizer (CYA): 0
Chlorine: 0 ppm
How is it that the CYA and Chlorine (FC) is at 0??
The girl at the counter recommended that I add 800 grams of pH- to lower the pH and that I should shock the pool one a week with 750 grams of chlorine since I'm using the ozone machine and 1 puck per week.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Nick