Like an idiot I added Calcium Chloride and Soda Ash right after each other not realizing I wasn’t supposed to and now the water is super cloudy and Milky. How long will it take to clear? Should I just wait or should I do something to fix it? CH was low and PH was low so I added basically at same time. Please Help!
Added Calcium Chloride and Soda Ash
- Thread starter Cards12783
- Start date
- May 3, 2014
- 62,717
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Post a full set of water chemistry test results. Low pH typically needs no action unless your TA is also very low.
The cloudy will clear once the chemistry is stable.
The cloudy will clear once the chemistry is stable.
Thanks for your reply:
Cleared some overnight. Big mistake with the soda ash but obviously created a chemical reaction mixing those chemicals and created calcium carbonate.
Test Results this morning are
PH 7.4
ALK 105
CH 220
CL 4.2
CYA 35
Slightly negative CSI at the moment
Cleared some overnight. Big mistake with the soda ash but obviously created a chemical reaction mixing those chemicals and created calcium carbonate.
Test Results this morning are
PH 7.4
ALK 105
CH 220
CL 4.2
CYA 35
Slightly negative CSI at the moment
- May 3, 2014
- 62,717
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
- Jan 7, 2012
- 2,127
- Pool Size
- 21000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
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Under normal circumstances, a pool should never need soda ash.
- Jun 24, 2021
- 16,212
- Pool Size
- 29000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-60 Plus
We recommend adding calcium products on a day that you are NOT adding products that change pH.