Hi all. Sorry for the delay in posting. I've had my pool for 5 seasons now; it came with the house. Every time it rains hard, my pool fills up with water and dirt and mud. Well, it rained hard and turned the water deep, dark brown. It's like someone dumped a half a yard of mulch in there! So, after working so hard on getting it balanced and then to have the water get so messed up so fast, I had enough. What made it worse was I went to a neighbor's house to see his pool and it was crystal clear. So, I looked through the old paperwork from the prior owners and called up the contractor. Apparently, this is a known issue! He and the previous owners argued about this for a while: he blames their landscaping and I guess they blamed him. Anyway, I'm furious and I'll have to figure out the solution.
Enough venting...I'm using the Taylor Complete FAS-DPD Pool Water Test[FONT=arial, sans-serif] Kit K-2006. I'm pretty good with it. I've let the pool run for 2 days, cleaned the cartridges and now I'm left with green water (instead of brown), so I'm starting from scratch. Based on the above, it looks like I need to get my all of my numbers together (which I should be able to do today) and then go from there. Important question: should I start with chlorine in the mean time to help get rid of the green?[/FONT]