Hi there, great forum, I've been lurking for a long time but finally joined. Trying to revive this thread from the dead since there is some good information here, otherwise I will start a new thread if that is better.
I had an outdoor in ground pool for 16 years until now and became pretty good at the BBB method by the end of it. I just bought a house with a 20K gallon INDOOR concrete (or gunite, not sure how I would tell the difference) pool. This pool gets pretty much no sun. We have lived there a month and I tested the TC and PH when we moved in, both were high (sorry, wrote the numbers down but lost them during the move). I've been very busy with other things around the house but finally got caught up and am testing the chemicals again. Water has been clear the entire time with the exception that in the last 2 weeks small floating clear patches have formed on the surface. The skimmer does not suck enough to pull these in, or if it does they break into too small of pieces to be filtered. I've been removing them with pantyhose put over my pool skimmer and when doing that you can see that they break into fine crystals. I'm having decent luck getting those off the surface with that method. If anyone has advice on that issue then great, but my big question is related to chemicals since I am new to an indoor pool.
Very light bather load, but the Chlorine levels have not gone down in the month we've been here. Chlorine was so high I had to use the method of 3 parts tap water to 1 part pool water and multiplying that by 4 I would say the results are:
(Using HTH 6 way kit)
Total Chlorine 20
PH 8.6
Hardness 400
I did not have enough CYA indicator to do that test. I have not put any chlorine or anything else in the pool (when I need to I will definitely use liquid chlorine). Please give your advice on what I should do.
Also, it is hard water in this area, but I do have a water softener, which I "think" is hooked up to the spigot in the room where the pool is. I've already drained and added a few inches from the spigot to see if it made any difference, and none that I could tell. I can't really afford to drain the pool to "start over".
FYI, spigot water has 0 TC and 7.6 PH. Sorry, my outdoor pool 15 miles away always gave me problems keeping enough chlorine, I'm not used to the opposite problem at all. Thanks in advance!
I had an outdoor in ground pool for 16 years until now and became pretty good at the BBB method by the end of it. I just bought a house with a 20K gallon INDOOR concrete (or gunite, not sure how I would tell the difference) pool. This pool gets pretty much no sun. We have lived there a month and I tested the TC and PH when we moved in, both were high (sorry, wrote the numbers down but lost them during the move). I've been very busy with other things around the house but finally got caught up and am testing the chemicals again. Water has been clear the entire time with the exception that in the last 2 weeks small floating clear patches have formed on the surface. The skimmer does not suck enough to pull these in, or if it does they break into too small of pieces to be filtered. I've been removing them with pantyhose put over my pool skimmer and when doing that you can see that they break into fine crystals. I'm having decent luck getting those off the surface with that method. If anyone has advice on that issue then great, but my big question is related to chemicals since I am new to an indoor pool.
Very light bather load, but the Chlorine levels have not gone down in the month we've been here. Chlorine was so high I had to use the method of 3 parts tap water to 1 part pool water and multiplying that by 4 I would say the results are:
(Using HTH 6 way kit)
Total Chlorine 20
PH 8.6
Hardness 400
I did not have enough CYA indicator to do that test. I have not put any chlorine or anything else in the pool (when I need to I will definitely use liquid chlorine). Please give your advice on what I should do.
Also, it is hard water in this area, but I do have a water softener, which I "think" is hooked up to the spigot in the room where the pool is. I've already drained and added a few inches from the spigot to see if it made any difference, and none that I could tell. I can't really afford to drain the pool to "start over".
FYI, spigot water has 0 TC and 7.6 PH. Sorry, my outdoor pool 15 miles away always gave me problems keeping enough chlorine, I'm not used to the opposite problem at all. Thanks in advance!