Hello all,
With my first post here to TFP, I will say that I am a new pool owner in New Hampshire. Recently moved into a house with an AG pool that was mostly full from last year. I have been learning the pool owner game through different online resources as well as some initial information and products from my pool store, but ran into this forum a couple weeks ago and have decided to get all of my information here as I feel that it is a valuable resource and the information so far seems very good.
In joining the community, I have also ordered the recommended test kit (TF100) and received it today. Prior to receiving this in the mail, I had done several things to get my pool a nice clear blue and have gone through a few cycles of non-blue to blue by now. Those cycles have been mostly caused by the addition of chlorine turning my water to a yellow/orange color (all signs both from reading here point to iron in the water source). The latest cycle ended a few days ago when I was able to get my yellow water filtered out for the most-part and the pool turned clear blue. I took this opportunity to do some vacuuming, brushing and leaf raking in the pool to make sure that the next steps i took were unimpeded by a dirty pool.
Upon receiving the test kit, I tested the chemical levels in the pool:
FC - 0
CC - 0
TA - 180 (I realize this is high. I was using a pool store test strip prior to getting the TF100 and according to that test strip I am sitting around 100 here which is where I planned to be and adjusted accordingly)
CYA - 0
PH - 7.8
After taking these tests, I added 2 bottles of liquid chlorine (SHOCK-IT from pool store as I had a supply of this already), almost immediately, as somewhat expected, I noticed the water once again turning yellow. I have seen many posts about yellow water, but not many seem to be the same exact problem. All of those seem to suggest sequestrant. I am interested in finding out a sequestrant to use in order to try to get this to stop happening as I believe what will happen all summer will be everytime I add a significant amount of chlorine, the pool will turn yellow again, and I will have to wait a day or two before it will get back to blue and a day or two after that, it will be out of chlorine as it seems has happened.
So, what should i be looking for in sequestrant? Is this what the solution should be or is there something else that could be the issue here?
Thanks in advance for your help!
With my first post here to TFP, I will say that I am a new pool owner in New Hampshire. Recently moved into a house with an AG pool that was mostly full from last year. I have been learning the pool owner game through different online resources as well as some initial information and products from my pool store, but ran into this forum a couple weeks ago and have decided to get all of my information here as I feel that it is a valuable resource and the information so far seems very good.
In joining the community, I have also ordered the recommended test kit (TF100) and received it today. Prior to receiving this in the mail, I had done several things to get my pool a nice clear blue and have gone through a few cycles of non-blue to blue by now. Those cycles have been mostly caused by the addition of chlorine turning my water to a yellow/orange color (all signs both from reading here point to iron in the water source). The latest cycle ended a few days ago when I was able to get my yellow water filtered out for the most-part and the pool turned clear blue. I took this opportunity to do some vacuuming, brushing and leaf raking in the pool to make sure that the next steps i took were unimpeded by a dirty pool.
Upon receiving the test kit, I tested the chemical levels in the pool:
FC - 0
CC - 0
TA - 180 (I realize this is high. I was using a pool store test strip prior to getting the TF100 and according to that test strip I am sitting around 100 here which is where I planned to be and adjusted accordingly)
CYA - 0
PH - 7.8
After taking these tests, I added 2 bottles of liquid chlorine (SHOCK-IT from pool store as I had a supply of this already), almost immediately, as somewhat expected, I noticed the water once again turning yellow. I have seen many posts about yellow water, but not many seem to be the same exact problem. All of those seem to suggest sequestrant. I am interested in finding out a sequestrant to use in order to try to get this to stop happening as I believe what will happen all summer will be everytime I add a significant amount of chlorine, the pool will turn yellow again, and I will have to wait a day or two before it will get back to blue and a day or two after that, it will be out of chlorine as it seems has happened.
So, what should i be looking for in sequestrant? Is this what the solution should be or is there something else that could be the issue here?
Thanks in advance for your help!
(do it yourself to see what it does)
