Hello TFPC! This is my first post although I have been lurking around the last couple of weeks reading up and getting schooled!
Here's my dilemna...
I have a 24' round, 54" high, 13,500 gallon pool that was installed last year. The pool has been on the Sustain pool chemical regimen since new. We had some green algae issues towards the end of last season that my "pool store" said should not be an issue after using the winterizing kit before closing. Well, that didn't turn out like that. Opened the pool about 2 weeks ago and it looked like the home for the Creature from the Green Lagoon. Used the opening kit the store supplied me with, which contained a pound of shock, algecide, and clarifier. Ran the pump for 2 days continuous. No change. Brought a water sample in to the "pool store". Everything looked "great" accept that the pool was green. Was sold a metal sanitizer. Put it in and ran the pump continuous for 24 hours. No change. Went back to the "pool store". Tested the water again. Now I had high phosphates. Was sold another concoction that would cure all my problems. Dumped the phosphate remover in and ran the pump continuous for 2 days. You guessed it, no change. I did have to clean and re-gen my filter 4 times that day though. But, still green....
Found TFPC online and started reading. Boy was I an idiot!! I ordered a Taylor K-2006C test kit that just arrived today. Got all my numbers that I'll list below. After finding TFPC, I started shocking the pool, kinda sorta doing the SLAM, with the numbers I had from the pool store as a guideline. I now have a kinda blue pool after 10 gallons of liquid shock over the last 3-4 days along with skimming, vacuuming, and wall and floor scrubbing. But before I continue on the road I'm now on, I wanted to put up a post and see what you guys think of my numbers and what my strategy going forward should be. This is a Sustain pool and I already have $300 worth of the those maintenance chemicals for this season so I don't really want to dump it all if I can help it.
Here are my numbers from the Taylor kit :
FC = 40
CC = 2
Ph = 7.8
TA = 150
CH = 300
CYA = 70
Before doing anything else, I'm wondering if I should dump some of the water and do a partial water change. With the CYA hovering at 70, I'm assuming that would be the first thing to do. But I figured I would see if you guys could take a peek and let me know if that's where I should be headed right now. I have uploaded 2 pics of my pool, the green is where I pretty much started from when I opened it, and the blue one is where I stand right now for reference. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you everyone for taking a peek at my post and I appreciate your time.
Here's my dilemna...
I have a 24' round, 54" high, 13,500 gallon pool that was installed last year. The pool has been on the Sustain pool chemical regimen since new. We had some green algae issues towards the end of last season that my "pool store" said should not be an issue after using the winterizing kit before closing. Well, that didn't turn out like that. Opened the pool about 2 weeks ago and it looked like the home for the Creature from the Green Lagoon. Used the opening kit the store supplied me with, which contained a pound of shock, algecide, and clarifier. Ran the pump for 2 days continuous. No change. Brought a water sample in to the "pool store". Everything looked "great" accept that the pool was green. Was sold a metal sanitizer. Put it in and ran the pump continuous for 24 hours. No change. Went back to the "pool store". Tested the water again. Now I had high phosphates. Was sold another concoction that would cure all my problems. Dumped the phosphate remover in and ran the pump continuous for 2 days. You guessed it, no change. I did have to clean and re-gen my filter 4 times that day though. But, still green....
Found TFPC online and started reading. Boy was I an idiot!! I ordered a Taylor K-2006C test kit that just arrived today. Got all my numbers that I'll list below. After finding TFPC, I started shocking the pool, kinda sorta doing the SLAM, with the numbers I had from the pool store as a guideline. I now have a kinda blue pool after 10 gallons of liquid shock over the last 3-4 days along with skimming, vacuuming, and wall and floor scrubbing. But before I continue on the road I'm now on, I wanted to put up a post and see what you guys think of my numbers and what my strategy going forward should be. This is a Sustain pool and I already have $300 worth of the those maintenance chemicals for this season so I don't really want to dump it all if I can help it.
Here are my numbers from the Taylor kit :
FC = 40
CC = 2
Ph = 7.8
TA = 150
CH = 300
CYA = 70
Before doing anything else, I'm wondering if I should dump some of the water and do a partial water change. With the CYA hovering at 70, I'm assuming that would be the first thing to do. But I figured I would see if you guys could take a peek and let me know if that's where I should be headed right now. I have uploaded 2 pics of my pool, the green is where I pretty much started from when I opened it, and the blue one is where I stand right now for reference. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you everyone for taking a peek at my post and I appreciate your time.