I bought a house with a pool this winter so I'm a rookie to say the least. I have read up on here and feel that I have a basic understanding of how each of the chemicals are contributing to the health of my pool. I've been having issues the last three weeks keeping chlorine in the pool. For instance I'll dump three gallons of 10% liquid chlorine in around 9pm which will bump me up from 0ppm to 11ish ppm. By the morning I will be at 2-3 ppm and by the next evening I will be back close to zero. All this trouble and reading on this forum convinced me to by the TF100 test kit and I just took my first readings tonight. FYI...I just got back from a four day vacation today so the water is cloudy and I was expecting no chlorine which is what I got. It also rained a lot this weekend. The water may be a little green but mostly just cloudy.
Here are the results of my testing:
FC, CC, TC =0
PH =7.1
TA =180
CH = 180
CYA = 80-100
Planning to have a pool party on Friday so need some assistance! This test result matched my test strips pretty well and I had been thinking that I should drain to lower CYA, but shouldn't the chlorine be much more stable than my pool is acting with high CYA? I'm loosing 100% FC in less than 24 hours! Also, before vacation I had gotten my PH closer to 7.5, but with the solar cover on and a bunch of trichlor pucks in the pool it come back down.
Thanks for any help,
Jeff
Here are the results of my testing:
FC, CC, TC =0
PH =7.1
TA =180
CH = 180
CYA = 80-100
Planning to have a pool party on Friday so need some assistance! This test result matched my test strips pretty well and I had been thinking that I should drain to lower CYA, but shouldn't the chlorine be much more stable than my pool is acting with high CYA? I'm loosing 100% FC in less than 24 hours! Also, before vacation I had gotten my PH closer to 7.5, but with the solar cover on and a bunch of trichlor pucks in the pool it come back down.
Thanks for any help,
Jeff