Hello! I'm fairly new to pool ownership. Lots of my frantic Google searching brings me to TFP so I figured it's about time to join.
We bought a home with an Inground 10,000 gallon pool with sand filter last August. We only used it a few weeks before closing it for the season. We inherited the pool with basically no experience and all of the chemicals were off. We finally got it swimmable and had relatively no issues after the initial dropping $300 worth of chemicals in it.
This season, however, our chlorine levels will not stay up no matter what we do. We're using the same 3 inch pucks from last season. Our chlorine levels have been hovering between .2 and .4 despite using 3 pucks in the floater (overkill for our pool size) and shocking the pool at least 4 or 5 times now since the initial opening. It looks great. The water is crystal clear. We've played around with the cya and phosphates to see if those are the reason for the low chlorine, but we just got both of those in spec and it hasn't solved our chlorine issue. We also have a solar cover.
Can someone give me guidance on this? I've seen a lot of people here use liquid chlorine which I'm not opposed to, but we spent a fortune on the Leslie's tabs last season and I would like to use them if possible.
Stats:
Ph - 7.1. (this *just* dropped due to rain so I'll be treating that)
Alk- 106
Cya- 45
Fac - .48
Tac- .6
Ch-236
Tds- 500
Pho-0
Fe-0
Cu- .1
We bought a home with an Inground 10,000 gallon pool with sand filter last August. We only used it a few weeks before closing it for the season. We inherited the pool with basically no experience and all of the chemicals were off. We finally got it swimmable and had relatively no issues after the initial dropping $300 worth of chemicals in it.
This season, however, our chlorine levels will not stay up no matter what we do. We're using the same 3 inch pucks from last season. Our chlorine levels have been hovering between .2 and .4 despite using 3 pucks in the floater (overkill for our pool size) and shocking the pool at least 4 or 5 times now since the initial opening. It looks great. The water is crystal clear. We've played around with the cya and phosphates to see if those are the reason for the low chlorine, but we just got both of those in spec and it hasn't solved our chlorine issue. We also have a solar cover.
Can someone give me guidance on this? I've seen a lot of people here use liquid chlorine which I'm not opposed to, but we spent a fortune on the Leslie's tabs last season and I would like to use them if possible.
Stats:
Ph - 7.1. (this *just* dropped due to rain so I'll be treating that)
Alk- 106
Cya- 45
Fac - .48
Tac- .6
Ch-236
Tds- 500
Pho-0
Fe-0
Cu- .1