Hello,
O Woe is me. Our power cover has bit the dust. A new one is on order, but will not be here until June 16th. We let the damaged cover sit on the pool for a month, but it just got too disgusting... standing water on top of the cover, algae and then mosquito larvae. So the other day I just cut it around the perimeter and pulled it off. Pool was not in good shape - a bunch of dirt had fallen off the cover, there were baby mosquitos swimming around....
I tested the water - balanced it to ph 7.5, set the salt cell to "superchlorinate" and dumped in a gallon of 10% bleach. Next morning, the pool looked much nicer, but the free chlorine was all gone .
With the power cover, I had gotten a bit lazy about the CYA - basically the cover protected the chlorine from the sun and also from evaporating, and the salt cell easily kept up.
Unless I want to add a gallon of chlorine every day, I need some CYA in that water! Now CYA is ...shall we say....*reluctant to dissolve". In the past, I've
done the sock trick - fill an old sock with it and put it in the skimmer. Then come and squeeze the sock once in a while.
Can I just dump it in the pool? We won't be swimming until after the 16th, because we don't have quite the cubic money to heat it. Surely it will
just dissolve in the 10 days or so? Or will it stain the plaster?
O Woe is me. Our power cover has bit the dust. A new one is on order, but will not be here until June 16th. We let the damaged cover sit on the pool for a month, but it just got too disgusting... standing water on top of the cover, algae and then mosquito larvae. So the other day I just cut it around the perimeter and pulled it off. Pool was not in good shape - a bunch of dirt had fallen off the cover, there were baby mosquitos swimming around....
I tested the water - balanced it to ph 7.5, set the salt cell to "superchlorinate" and dumped in a gallon of 10% bleach. Next morning, the pool looked much nicer, but the free chlorine was all gone .
With the power cover, I had gotten a bit lazy about the CYA - basically the cover protected the chlorine from the sun and also from evaporating, and the salt cell easily kept up.
Unless I want to add a gallon of chlorine every day, I need some CYA in that water! Now CYA is ...shall we say....*reluctant to dissolve". In the past, I've
done the sock trick - fill an old sock with it and put it in the skimmer. Then come and squeeze the sock once in a while.
Can I just dump it in the pool? We won't be swimming until after the 16th, because we don't have quite the cubic money to heat it. Surely it will
just dissolve in the 10 days or so? Or will it stain the plaster?