So I'm treating a neglected pool... my neglected pool...
alkalinity is ... 0
PH is about 6.5
hardness is 33
free chlorine at 0.4
total chlorine at about 3.5
CYA at 76 (although before finding this website i added more chlorine stabilizer, so its safe to say its a bit higher now maybe 80+)
I dont have a quality test kit yet so I'm just using a 5 way test kit from home depot, unfortunately this means I cannot test for CYA (the numbers above are from Leslies test).
I imagine the first thing I should do is empty the pool a bit to lower the CYA before dealing with the other issues, however I am unclear on the order of operations. Once I lower My CYA should i balance my PH, Raise alkalinity, increase hardness? Or do I just immediately add liquid chlorine to raise chlorine.
Any advice would be fantastic.
Also where do you recommend I get my chemicals? Leslies is expensive but home depot rarely has what I need.
alkalinity is ... 0
PH is about 6.5
hardness is 33
free chlorine at 0.4
total chlorine at about 3.5
CYA at 76 (although before finding this website i added more chlorine stabilizer, so its safe to say its a bit higher now maybe 80+)
I dont have a quality test kit yet so I'm just using a 5 way test kit from home depot, unfortunately this means I cannot test for CYA (the numbers above are from Leslies test).
I imagine the first thing I should do is empty the pool a bit to lower the CYA before dealing with the other issues, however I am unclear on the order of operations. Once I lower My CYA should i balance my PH, Raise alkalinity, increase hardness? Or do I just immediately add liquid chlorine to raise chlorine.
Any advice would be fantastic.
Also where do you recommend I get my chemicals? Leslies is expensive but home depot rarely has what I need.