Did you dump stabilizer into your pool without a sock?
Well not directly but indirectly
Since the pool was finished with the PB last month & his pool service guy wrapped up his pool school I had been debating keeping his service for weekly cleaning & ultimately decided to try that for a little while
My understanding was they would be adding tricolor to the chlorine feeder as needed & brushing , emptying baskets etc.
I had already started using liquid chlorine & was SLOWLY adding liquid CYA because I'm paranoid about that getting too high & I was keeping the chlorine feeder off completely or on a very low setting
Well my wife told me they came to clean yesterday & even vacuumed the pool (we had tons of rain Mon night & Tue morn) so that sounded good
When I got home & read their card it indicated they added
2 pounds of stabilizer :-(
(it was mostly cloudy yesterday)
So I was very concerned about that especially since my tests were indicating a CYA of 30-40
Today the suns out so I'm testing the water & adding liquid chlorine & brushing the pool etc., then I see what I think are some stains in the deep end (lighter color variation spots on the finish)
now my mind starts to add this up I'm thinking these guys just dumped some powdered CYA in the deep end & then tried to vacuum up what didn't dissolve in the water
I did a CYA test late afternoon today with low sun & ran out of R-0013 while trying to do it & I'm worried it's well above 60 now
So I plan on having a discussion with the owner of the pool service
(I honestly enjoyed his pool school & the discussions we had about water chemistry enough to think I could trust him/his service but like almost anything else they're only as good as the people they hire)
and will probably fire them after I hear what he has to say
The older I get the more strongly I believe that if you want something done right(correctly) you must do it yourself