Hi All -
This is my first post. Apologies if this is covered somewhere else but I couldn't find anything that matched my situation.
Here's the situation:
- Pool is dark green/brown and thick seeming
- Have shocked the living daylights out of it with liquid chlorine
- Have vacuumed
- Have used everything the store sold me a couple of times (now I know from reading this to cut that out!)
Basically, it was a perfect storm. My liquid chlorine feeder went out while on a two week vacation. My "helpful" home sitter tried using my robot to clean up the algae that began to form. I'm sure that trekked the algae all over the pool.
As I was in France and couldn't easily help, I told him to shut it down and leave it for a week until I got home.
Now I cannot for the life of me bring it back.
I've got a taylor 1004 kit so I have some good #'s but not all. I've got the big kit around here somewhere I just need to find it.
But, here are my stats and some pictures attached...
FC - +10 (can't see higher with this kit)
PH - 7.2
Total Alk - 60-70
CYA - 0 (from test strip)
CA - 250-300 (from test strip)
My pool system is old (like a VW, I like it) and has no flush to waste, but I do have an external pump so I can vacuum stuff out of the pool - which I've been trying...
Cleaning the filter every couple of hrs.
Wife wants me to call in the pros but I know I can fix this!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Until then, I'll just keep vaccuuming, cleaning the filter, etc.
Thanks again!
Max
This is my first post. Apologies if this is covered somewhere else but I couldn't find anything that matched my situation.
Here's the situation:
- Pool is dark green/brown and thick seeming
- Have shocked the living daylights out of it with liquid chlorine
- Have vacuumed
- Have used everything the store sold me a couple of times (now I know from reading this to cut that out!)
Basically, it was a perfect storm. My liquid chlorine feeder went out while on a two week vacation. My "helpful" home sitter tried using my robot to clean up the algae that began to form. I'm sure that trekked the algae all over the pool.
As I was in France and couldn't easily help, I told him to shut it down and leave it for a week until I got home.
Now I cannot for the life of me bring it back.
I've got a taylor 1004 kit so I have some good #'s but not all. I've got the big kit around here somewhere I just need to find it.
But, here are my stats and some pictures attached...
FC - +10 (can't see higher with this kit)
PH - 7.2
Total Alk - 60-70
CYA - 0 (from test strip)
CA - 250-300 (from test strip)
My pool system is old (like a VW, I like it) and has no flush to waste, but I do have an external pump so I can vacuum stuff out of the pool - which I've been trying...
Cleaning the filter every couple of hrs.
Wife wants me to call in the pros but I know I can fix this!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Until then, I'll just keep vaccuuming, cleaning the filter, etc.
Thanks again!
Max