1st let me say thank you all. I have been a lurker here for a little over a year, since buying my home that came with a pool. I have learned a ton.
Clearly I did not open my pool this year properly and thus my constant issues this year.
The Problems:
- Almost always no FC.
- Constant fight with alge on the sides of the pool.
- cloudy water
I do not have my $$$$ tester yet and with the 4th holidays this week I started the shocking yesterday without it. (I know bad form! But I am more scared of my wife and 2 daughters than anything else. :lol: )
Starting Information via Leslie Pools & my HTH Test Kit:
FC=0
CYA= 75
TA= 140
PH= 7.4
Salt= 3200
Using the Chlorine / CYA Chart I need to shock at 28.
Using the bleach calculator I came up with a need for 4.2 gal. (I am using SMART Liqui-shock 10%)
So I did the following.
Monday- Soaked my cell in a 5 gal bucket with 1:4 b-acid/water for 24hr. (did not have a lot of junk on it but figured it was better safe than sorry.)
Tuesday-
1. Purchased 8 gal of liqui-shock
2. At 5PM put 4 gal of liqui-shock into the pool, turned on the pump and sweeper.
3. Started manually sweeping the pool sides and steps.
4. At 5:30 took samples from 4 different areas of the pool and I was not even at the 5/10 top range of yellow on the HTH test glass.
5. At 5:45 took another 4 samples as above same results, so I added another gal of liqui-shock.
6. At 6 took another 4 samples and I was 50/50 as far as top color of yellow or the next one below.
7. Continued to manually sweep and scrub the tile and pool.
8. 6:30 took another 4 samples and I was not in the top yellow anymore, added another gal of Liqui-shock. (off to dinner)
9. Came back out at 7:30 tested 4 samples it was 50/50 between the top level of yellow and the one under it. Added another gal of liqui-shock.
*** Total so far is 7 gal of liqui-shock at 10% per gal.***
10. Tested at 8PM was a solid top level yellow, swept the pool again.
11. Tested at 9PM steady top level of yellow.
12 Tested at 10PM steady top level of yellow.
Wednesday-
1. Tested this morning at 6AM and I am at the 3-6 level. So I dumped in the last gal of liqui-shock I had.
Here are my questions:
1. With me being at work and unable to continue shocking did I just waste 40 bucks in shock? I have a short day so I will be back home and could resume shocking at 2PM.
2. Should I continue to shock the pool when I get home?
3. The water was never green it was just really cloudy, this morning it looked 100% better than yesterday. Nothing on the sides of the pool, water fall, or steps. Should I keep the kids out of the pool for another day? If I have to do this all over again anyways I would rather open the pool and do this whole thing again next week.
PS: I have a bunch of friends in the DFW area that have SWG pools and they don't do Crud to their pools and they are AWESOME! If I had a buck for every time one of my buddies told me, " Jim I don't know what your problem is. I run my pump 9 hours a day, have the boy sweep and skim the pool once a week, pour a gal of acid into the pool every other month if the PH gets too high, pour in a bit of stabilizer if we have a big storm, add salt once a year at the start, and that is IT!"
I wonder why mine is so different? :grrrr:
Anyways..... thanks for the help. Sorry for the long post but from past observation I think I have answered all the questions I have seen newbies get asked.
Clearly I did not open my pool this year properly and thus my constant issues this year.
The Problems:
- Almost always no FC.
- Constant fight with alge on the sides of the pool.
- cloudy water
I do not have my $$$$ tester yet and with the 4th holidays this week I started the shocking yesterday without it. (I know bad form! But I am more scared of my wife and 2 daughters than anything else. :lol: )
Starting Information via Leslie Pools & my HTH Test Kit:
FC=0
CYA= 75
TA= 140
PH= 7.4
Salt= 3200
Using the Chlorine / CYA Chart I need to shock at 28.
Using the bleach calculator I came up with a need for 4.2 gal. (I am using SMART Liqui-shock 10%)
So I did the following.
Monday- Soaked my cell in a 5 gal bucket with 1:4 b-acid/water for 24hr. (did not have a lot of junk on it but figured it was better safe than sorry.)
Tuesday-
1. Purchased 8 gal of liqui-shock
2. At 5PM put 4 gal of liqui-shock into the pool, turned on the pump and sweeper.
3. Started manually sweeping the pool sides and steps.
4. At 5:30 took samples from 4 different areas of the pool and I was not even at the 5/10 top range of yellow on the HTH test glass.
5. At 5:45 took another 4 samples as above same results, so I added another gal of liqui-shock.
6. At 6 took another 4 samples and I was 50/50 as far as top color of yellow or the next one below.
7. Continued to manually sweep and scrub the tile and pool.
8. 6:30 took another 4 samples and I was not in the top yellow anymore, added another gal of Liqui-shock. (off to dinner)
9. Came back out at 7:30 tested 4 samples it was 50/50 between the top level of yellow and the one under it. Added another gal of liqui-shock.
*** Total so far is 7 gal of liqui-shock at 10% per gal.***
10. Tested at 8PM was a solid top level yellow, swept the pool again.
11. Tested at 9PM steady top level of yellow.
12 Tested at 10PM steady top level of yellow.
Wednesday-
1. Tested this morning at 6AM and I am at the 3-6 level. So I dumped in the last gal of liqui-shock I had.
Here are my questions:
1. With me being at work and unable to continue shocking did I just waste 40 bucks in shock? I have a short day so I will be back home and could resume shocking at 2PM.
2. Should I continue to shock the pool when I get home?
3. The water was never green it was just really cloudy, this morning it looked 100% better than yesterday. Nothing on the sides of the pool, water fall, or steps. Should I keep the kids out of the pool for another day? If I have to do this all over again anyways I would rather open the pool and do this whole thing again next week.
PS: I have a bunch of friends in the DFW area that have SWG pools and they don't do Crud to their pools and they are AWESOME! If I had a buck for every time one of my buddies told me, " Jim I don't know what your problem is. I run my pump 9 hours a day, have the boy sweep and skim the pool once a week, pour a gal of acid into the pool every other month if the PH gets too high, pour in a bit of stabilizer if we have a big storm, add salt once a year at the start, and that is IT!"
I wonder why mine is so different? :grrrr:
Anyways..... thanks for the help. Sorry for the long post but from past observation I think I have answered all the questions I have seen newbies get asked.