Another first time results and post
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As of Friday, I didn't know yet what to purchase to deal with my test results. We have a chlorinator and have used the pucks in it over the last 15 years but after finding this web site and studying up on pool school, I decided to do this method and see if it worked. I turned the chlorinator completely off Monday morning ( forgot to do it Sunday when I started my SLAM. This is the first attempt at using TFP methods.) I purchased stabilizer & 10% liquid chlorine from Walmart. Nothing else has gone in the pool except pH down. What do you think?
FC 19 tonight and will do overnight test to see if it holds till am. Does anyone know about the dirt like fall out I mentioned above?
Okay. How long after your last chlorine addition did you get the 19 result? I want to make sure that it circulated well. The gunk is either pollen or dead algae. My guess is dead algae.
As long as you tested after sundown and gave the addition time to circulate (3 hours!), then that 19FC should be golden. Good luck!
Thanks ya'll! I am looking forward to a trouble free pool this summer and NO swimmers ear!
This morning FC is 18 so that passes the OCLT test. The water is clear but I am still a little uneasy about that dirt in the pool. I am going to vacumm today. The water gets cloudy when I vacumm or sweep until it settles to the bottom again. I am tempted to use a manual vacumm to waste rather than the robot which stirs it up.
I end up debating that each year - vac to waste or let the robot get some of it and stir up the rest? Usually a combination of the two. Vac to waste loses water so fast so when dealing with dirt I usually vac on filter and let the sand filter get it. You can sweep the dirt toward the drain and or stir it up so that the skimmer gets it.
I would manually vacuum really slowly on filter. If you have big clumps of dirt, you could have someone at the pump switch it to waste for those.