Hi,
We moved into a house with a pool about 10 days ago. The water looks really nice not even a tiny bit green. The previous person who lived here had a company come every week to take care of the pool (I found a chlorine tablet in the skimmer). The first thing I did was to clean the filter - which seemed necessary. Then I took a sample to Lesslie's to get an idea of what was going on. They said everything is fine Chlorine is around 5ppm.... I should have known better.
Today I received my test kit I got the Taylor K-2006 and these are the results:
pH = 7.6
FC = 30ppm
CH = 750ppm
CYA ~300ppm (diluted test)
TA = 175ppm
Temperature: 72F
Pump is running 8h a day
The pool gets about 7h of sun a day
The pool is about 7500 gallons
I scrub the pool every 2 or 3 days
We live in Las Vegas and it is still around 90F so we can still use the pool in the afternoon which we do since I thought it was in good health.
So all the values except PH seem really high. My assumption after loots of googeling is that I have to drain 1/3 or 1/4 of the water to get the CYA down and then use liquid chlorine/ bleach. Is there anything else I can or should do? This is our first pool and I am not really sure what to do next. Is it still safe to use the pool? FC is high but most of it should have bonded with CYA (maybe?!).
Thank you so much for your help!
We moved into a house with a pool about 10 days ago. The water looks really nice not even a tiny bit green. The previous person who lived here had a company come every week to take care of the pool (I found a chlorine tablet in the skimmer). The first thing I did was to clean the filter - which seemed necessary. Then I took a sample to Lesslie's to get an idea of what was going on. They said everything is fine Chlorine is around 5ppm.... I should have known better.
Today I received my test kit I got the Taylor K-2006 and these are the results:
pH = 7.6
FC = 30ppm
CH = 750ppm
CYA ~300ppm (diluted test)
TA = 175ppm
Temperature: 72F
Pump is running 8h a day
The pool gets about 7h of sun a day
The pool is about 7500 gallons
I scrub the pool every 2 or 3 days
We live in Las Vegas and it is still around 90F so we can still use the pool in the afternoon which we do since I thought it was in good health.
So all the values except PH seem really high. My assumption after loots of googeling is that I have to drain 1/3 or 1/4 of the water to get the CYA down and then use liquid chlorine/ bleach. Is there anything else I can or should do? This is our first pool and I am not really sure what to do next. Is it still safe to use the pool? FC is high but most of it should have bonded with CYA (maybe?!).
Thank you so much for your help!
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