Hello all,
First post here an hoping to get some help. I've searched through a ton of posts in these forums and learned a lot over the past 2 weeks but still having issues.
Opened the pool on May 16th. 14K above ground pool previously on Baquacil. I followed ( or at least I thought i did) the directions for switching from baqacil to Chlorine. I added non chlorine shock at the beginning, filtered 2 days. I added a bit more too at that point as there seemed to be a little baquacil sanitizer still showing on strips. After another day or 2 the pool looked very clear. I started shocking the pool with chlorine. Would immediately turn clear green color. Would clear up, FC would go to zero and I would keep repeating. Eventually stopped turning a clear green with the addition of chlorine. I started adding CYA and currently at 40ppm. I'm worried this is where i went wrong and i added it before i should have in the process. I started adding it because the sun hits my pool strong from 5AM-3:30PM so after a handful of days i assumed the loss of Chlorine was due to not having CYA in the pool. The pool has been crystal clear for 2 weeks. I vacuum any of the debris that might settle and its been overall crystal clear and spotless.
The issue i have been having for almost 2 weeks is that I cannot hold a FC reading for the life of me. I started with 12.5% pool store chlorine, then found walmart 10% to be a better deal (date code is recent). I've been trying to do the SLAM procedure, but the Chlorine loss is so significant. Just an example, its cloudy out right now, FC at 2:30 was 4ppm. I added 1 gallon of 10% which should have increased it to 11.1FC. I tested an hour later (FAS-DPD) and it was back down to 4ppm. Which means I went thru 7ppm in an hour which seems ridiculous. CC was zero. 45 mins later we are at the following:
FC 1
CC O
CYA 40
TA 130
PH 7.0 (currently aerating to hopefully bring up since TA is high)
When the sun is hitting the pool I have no luck ever keeping Chlorine in. Overnight its not terrible but still fairly decent drops. I am going to test again tonight but last night i got it to 15ppm, this morning it was at 5ppm FC, 0CC. I've probably gone through 30-35 jugs of chlorine since starting. I know with the SLAM you are supposed to constantly keep the Chlorine up, but if I'm going though a gallon of bleach every hour in the shade it seems to be a ever failing process. In the end the only thing i can think of is i added CYA too soon in the conversion process, i can't think of anything else. Any help is much appreciated!
First post here an hoping to get some help. I've searched through a ton of posts in these forums and learned a lot over the past 2 weeks but still having issues.
Opened the pool on May 16th. 14K above ground pool previously on Baquacil. I followed ( or at least I thought i did) the directions for switching from baqacil to Chlorine. I added non chlorine shock at the beginning, filtered 2 days. I added a bit more too at that point as there seemed to be a little baquacil sanitizer still showing on strips. After another day or 2 the pool looked very clear. I started shocking the pool with chlorine. Would immediately turn clear green color. Would clear up, FC would go to zero and I would keep repeating. Eventually stopped turning a clear green with the addition of chlorine. I started adding CYA and currently at 40ppm. I'm worried this is where i went wrong and i added it before i should have in the process. I started adding it because the sun hits my pool strong from 5AM-3:30PM so after a handful of days i assumed the loss of Chlorine was due to not having CYA in the pool. The pool has been crystal clear for 2 weeks. I vacuum any of the debris that might settle and its been overall crystal clear and spotless.
The issue i have been having for almost 2 weeks is that I cannot hold a FC reading for the life of me. I started with 12.5% pool store chlorine, then found walmart 10% to be a better deal (date code is recent). I've been trying to do the SLAM procedure, but the Chlorine loss is so significant. Just an example, its cloudy out right now, FC at 2:30 was 4ppm. I added 1 gallon of 10% which should have increased it to 11.1FC. I tested an hour later (FAS-DPD) and it was back down to 4ppm. Which means I went thru 7ppm in an hour which seems ridiculous. CC was zero. 45 mins later we are at the following:
FC 1
CC O
CYA 40
TA 130
PH 7.0 (currently aerating to hopefully bring up since TA is high)
When the sun is hitting the pool I have no luck ever keeping Chlorine in. Overnight its not terrible but still fairly decent drops. I am going to test again tonight but last night i got it to 15ppm, this morning it was at 5ppm FC, 0CC. I've probably gone through 30-35 jugs of chlorine since starting. I know with the SLAM you are supposed to constantly keep the Chlorine up, but if I'm going though a gallon of bleach every hour in the shade it seems to be a ever failing process. In the end the only thing i can think of is i added CYA too soon in the conversion process, i can't think of anything else. Any help is much appreciated!