I'm on day 7 of a SLAM and I haven't seen much progress in several days, even though I've been adding chlorine every 3-4 hours during the day and have been backwashing when filter pressure goes up by 25%. I'm suspicious that CYA is below 30 now because of all of the backwashing, and that is why I'm not seeing much progress. I tested my water and I can barely make out the dot at 30 and it completely disappears at 20. Chlorine was at 9 ppms when this test was done. I took a water sample to a pool store to confirm my test results and was told that the CYA is 26. All of the other test results were spot on so I assume this is accurate.
If I increased the CYA by 4 ppms to 30, could this help the SLAM go faster? Is there any reason why I can't use Dichlor to quickly raise the CYA if I only add enought to get CYA to 30 according to the pool math calculator? PH is only 7.2 so I wanted to make sure that it was okay to use Dichlor. I really don't' want to mess with putting stabilizer in a sock and dangling it over a return if I could increase the CYA with Dichlor instead which is faster and easier to add to the pool. Here are my latest test results: FC 9, CC .5, PH 7.2, TA 50, CYA 20-30, CH 140.
If I increased the CYA by 4 ppms to 30, could this help the SLAM go faster? Is there any reason why I can't use Dichlor to quickly raise the CYA if I only add enought to get CYA to 30 according to the pool math calculator? PH is only 7.2 so I wanted to make sure that it was okay to use Dichlor. I really don't' want to mess with putting stabilizer in a sock and dangling it over a return if I could increase the CYA with Dichlor instead which is faster and easier to add to the pool. Here are my latest test results: FC 9, CC .5, PH 7.2, TA 50, CYA 20-30, CH 140.
