Hi all. Pool installed on Thursday. Finally finished filling with hose Saturday morning. I had added some shock during this time as electric was not connected till last night.
Getting the general hang of testing. I have added baking soda, bleach, and just started some cya ( sock method) last night.
As of last night chlorine was about 2ish. No visible cya reading yet. Ph about 7.2.
Questions:
1. How often to run pump per day and best time to run?
2. A chlorination system came free with pool. It's currently connected but I set it to 0. I'm hoping that means nothing is getting to pool. Figured we'd leave it connected for vacations. Should I remove the pacs in it or just kept them and hope 0 is truly 0?
3. First major mishap...I was checking connections as chlorination was leaking and accidentally opened pump cover. Had water gushing everywhere. Took a bit before I remembered to close valve. Got cover back on. Put system back together but didn't totally fill with water at first. Pump is self priming but Do I need to prime filter? I tried to read directions but filter said to open air vent and we don't have one.
4. Pool store gave us a bag of cellulose stuff in place of DE for filter. Bag had directions on how much to add based on filter area. Also had a conversion in comparison to lbs. of DE typically added. Of course they did not add up. Filter says 19 sq ft area so I used that value. I added in about 3/4 of the bag that states 1 bag for 24 sq ft. According to lbs of DE I would have needed 2 full bags which didn't seem right. How do u know if u gave right amount of cellulose?
5. Our filter has a bump cleaning process. I assume I do not have to add more cellulose using this process?
Im sure more questions will pop up but those are the ones I have right now....
Getting the general hang of testing. I have added baking soda, bleach, and just started some cya ( sock method) last night.
As of last night chlorine was about 2ish. No visible cya reading yet. Ph about 7.2.
Questions:
1. How often to run pump per day and best time to run?
2. A chlorination system came free with pool. It's currently connected but I set it to 0. I'm hoping that means nothing is getting to pool. Figured we'd leave it connected for vacations. Should I remove the pacs in it or just kept them and hope 0 is truly 0?
3. First major mishap...I was checking connections as chlorination was leaking and accidentally opened pump cover. Had water gushing everywhere. Took a bit before I remembered to close valve. Got cover back on. Put system back together but didn't totally fill with water at first. Pump is self priming but Do I need to prime filter? I tried to read directions but filter said to open air vent and we don't have one.
4. Pool store gave us a bag of cellulose stuff in place of DE for filter. Bag had directions on how much to add based on filter area. Also had a conversion in comparison to lbs. of DE typically added. Of course they did not add up. Filter says 19 sq ft area so I used that value. I added in about 3/4 of the bag that states 1 bag for 24 sq ft. According to lbs of DE I would have needed 2 full bags which didn't seem right. How do u know if u gave right amount of cellulose?
5. Our filter has a bump cleaning process. I assume I do not have to add more cellulose using this process?
Im sure more questions will pop up but those are the ones I have right now....
