Howdy folks,
New here - bought a Taylor K-2006 kit and started using it a week ago to clear up a pool that was dark green upon opening. Before I started using the kit, just dumping a bunch of liquid chlorine in got us from dark green to cloudy - and we've been at cloudy ever since. I've been using the PoolMath app to SLAM as much as I can, using Austin's Pool Tech Shock (12.5% liquid chlorine). Weekends have been a few times a day but on weekdays I can usually only get to it once in the morning and once in the evening.
Definitely took me some trial and error to figure out what I was doing and what my different levels are, but at this point I feel like I'm at a standstill. I am following the SLAM process and adding gallons of chlorine each day but not seeing any differences. I'm also brushing the sides, vacuuming once or twice a day, backwashing/rinsing once a day as well. At this point, I have completely run out of R-0871 and nobody local sells it, so it's going to be at least a few days before I can accurately test for FC. Levels as of yesterday were hovering around 14 FC. CYA has been 58 and 60. I had measured my pH back last week at 7.2 but I read that I didn't need to continue testing it until the SLAM process was done.
At this point, it just feels like I'm doing something wrong - I've been dumping in chlorine for about a week now - probably at least 16 gallons' worth (unfortunately I don't think my logs are completely accurate as I think we missed some addditions) and it just seems like the cloudiness isn't changing at all.
In the absence of being able to accurately test without R-0871 for a few days...any suggestions? Anything I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
New here - bought a Taylor K-2006 kit and started using it a week ago to clear up a pool that was dark green upon opening. Before I started using the kit, just dumping a bunch of liquid chlorine in got us from dark green to cloudy - and we've been at cloudy ever since. I've been using the PoolMath app to SLAM as much as I can, using Austin's Pool Tech Shock (12.5% liquid chlorine). Weekends have been a few times a day but on weekdays I can usually only get to it once in the morning and once in the evening.
Definitely took me some trial and error to figure out what I was doing and what my different levels are, but at this point I feel like I'm at a standstill. I am following the SLAM process and adding gallons of chlorine each day but not seeing any differences. I'm also brushing the sides, vacuuming once or twice a day, backwashing/rinsing once a day as well. At this point, I have completely run out of R-0871 and nobody local sells it, so it's going to be at least a few days before I can accurately test for FC. Levels as of yesterday were hovering around 14 FC. CYA has been 58 and 60. I had measured my pH back last week at 7.2 but I read that I didn't need to continue testing it until the SLAM process was done.
At this point, it just feels like I'm doing something wrong - I've been dumping in chlorine for about a week now - probably at least 16 gallons' worth (unfortunately I don't think my logs are completely accurate as I think we missed some addditions) and it just seems like the cloudiness isn't changing at all.
In the absence of being able to accurately test without R-0871 for a few days...any suggestions? Anything I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
