Hi,
We're heading out of town for a week and I plan to bring our pool up to SLAM before we leave. I've skimmed the forums and I think I have a game plan in place. It's going to be hot and will be in the 90s rest of the week here.
- I'm currently filling up my pool with water since it evaporated some. Will doing this lower my CYA? My CYA current is at 50.
- I plan to bring it up to SLAM level this evening before we leave tomorrow AM. I also plan to leave some tabs in a floatie for the time away and have it somewhat centered in the deep end in case I can't have anyone come by drop any liquid chlorine in.
- We will skim/empty all baskets. We plan to leave the pool pump running at low setting. It seems like the recommendation maybe to turn it off? Does keeping the pump running while we are away help the algae at anyway? I read the flow of water needs to move in order for tabs to dissolve.
- Worst case scenario all the chlorine is gone by the time we come back and run into an algae situation, we will need to SLAM to get rid of it right?
Can I test FC/CC alone only using my TF-100 kit? I tested this morning and FC was at 1 and CC at 0. For CC, is there an ideal? Or am I right to interpret it as having no chlorine. Either way, it was low so I dumped in some liquid chlorine in while water is also being added. I plan to dump more chlorine in later this evening.
Thank you!
We're heading out of town for a week and I plan to bring our pool up to SLAM before we leave. I've skimmed the forums and I think I have a game plan in place. It's going to be hot and will be in the 90s rest of the week here.
- I'm currently filling up my pool with water since it evaporated some. Will doing this lower my CYA? My CYA current is at 50.
- I plan to bring it up to SLAM level this evening before we leave tomorrow AM. I also plan to leave some tabs in a floatie for the time away and have it somewhat centered in the deep end in case I can't have anyone come by drop any liquid chlorine in.
- We will skim/empty all baskets. We plan to leave the pool pump running at low setting. It seems like the recommendation maybe to turn it off? Does keeping the pump running while we are away help the algae at anyway? I read the flow of water needs to move in order for tabs to dissolve.
- Worst case scenario all the chlorine is gone by the time we come back and run into an algae situation, we will need to SLAM to get rid of it right?
Can I test FC/CC alone only using my TF-100 kit? I tested this morning and FC was at 1 and CC at 0. For CC, is there an ideal? Or am I right to interpret it as having no chlorine. Either way, it was low so I dumped in some liquid chlorine in while water is also being added. I plan to dump more chlorine in later this evening.
Thank you!