I am a first timer on this forum and i've already read plenty of great tips!
I'm looking for some help with the following problem. I opened my pool 2 days ago and it's still very green. I have a 32,000 gal gunite pool that's probably 25 years old with a sand filter. I've added 1 gal of algecide, 4 gal of liquid super shock. I've brushed, brushed, vacuumed, vac some more, backwashed and rinsed a bunch of times, vac some more, etc.
Last year, we had a similar problem and the pool company recommended a bunch of chemicals that changed our green problem to a cloudy/misty problem that lasted for half the summer!
I tested the water tonight and here are the ugly #'s:
CYA: 67
TC: 8.5
FC: 0.2
ph: 7.4
TA: 120
Hardness: 156
The pool store said they want to do a more complete chlorine test tomorrow that will take an hour or so to get the results. As you can probably tell, i am a novice in need of some guidance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
I'm looking for some help with the following problem. I opened my pool 2 days ago and it's still very green. I have a 32,000 gal gunite pool that's probably 25 years old with a sand filter. I've added 1 gal of algecide, 4 gal of liquid super shock. I've brushed, brushed, vacuumed, vac some more, backwashed and rinsed a bunch of times, vac some more, etc.
Last year, we had a similar problem and the pool company recommended a bunch of chemicals that changed our green problem to a cloudy/misty problem that lasted for half the summer!
I tested the water tonight and here are the ugly #'s:
CYA: 67
TC: 8.5
FC: 0.2
ph: 7.4
TA: 120
Hardness: 156
The pool store said they want to do a more complete chlorine test tomorrow that will take an hour or so to get the results. As you can probably tell, i am a novice in need of some guidance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim