Hey all,
Just had my pool opened day before and they put 4 gallons shock in. I have a salt water pool and its still cold here 58 degrees. I went to the pool store to test my water and they said my combined chlorine was super high at almost 8 free chlorine 0.6. The print out said I needed 27 lbs of shock and I said no frigin way im throwing 27 gallons of chlorine in a 16k gallon pool. Chlorine was only light yellow in the test kit today after they put 4 gallons in so I added 4 more and hours later still yellow so added 2 more for a total of 10 gallons. Now going to just wait a full day as already 10 seem like a lot of shock.
Anyone see any issue with this approach as I am trying to just clear it enough to see the bottom to vacuum. My pool is a salt water pool but the water is cold and once clear going to add a few more bags of salt and get the salt cell doing its thing.
Just had my pool opened day before and they put 4 gallons shock in. I have a salt water pool and its still cold here 58 degrees. I went to the pool store to test my water and they said my combined chlorine was super high at almost 8 free chlorine 0.6. The print out said I needed 27 lbs of shock and I said no frigin way im throwing 27 gallons of chlorine in a 16k gallon pool. Chlorine was only light yellow in the test kit today after they put 4 gallons in so I added 4 more and hours later still yellow so added 2 more for a total of 10 gallons. Now going to just wait a full day as already 10 seem like a lot of shock.
Anyone see any issue with this approach as I am trying to just clear it enough to see the bottom to vacuum. My pool is a salt water pool but the water is cold and once clear going to add a few more bags of salt and get the salt cell doing its thing.
