First Vacation since I got a pool

[Brettacus]

Hello all,

I just wanted to get some advice.

I am about to go on vacation for a week and I don’t want anything to go wrong with my pool. (Had some trouble a few months ago and now everything has been perfect for the past month and a half. Water so clear it feels like there isn’t even water in the pool.)

I am currently using Liquid chlorine and I keep it between 4 and 6. CYA is between 30 and 40.

Essentially after a day my chlorine drops to around 4-4.5 and then in the evening I add enough to get it to 6. Been doing that for a month and things are perfect.

Since I will be gone for a week what do you all recommend I do? I still have some chlorine tabs that came with the pool, should I just throw some in there for the week and then check and balance when I get home?

My wife’s sister is going to come by a few days to feed our animals and possibly swim, but I don’t trust her to add any chemicals.

Any tips would be helpful!

Thanks,

Brett

 

[reggiehammond]

Raise FC to SLAM using liquid, then throw 2-3 tabs in a floater (not skimmer.)
Easy peasy.

Moving forward - you need to raise your FC target. You're flirting with danger running so close to minimum. There's no drawback, all benefit to running on high end of target.

 

[proavia]

Raising to SLAM, with supplemental tabs, is the easiest way to keep FC at a good level while unattended.

Sound advice.

 

[Brettacus]

Here are my test results from about an hour ago.

I have been using the pool math app and I always keep FC on the high end of the ideal range as it recommends me to be at 4, but if I did that I would would probably be at 1.5 - 2 after a really sunny day.

My pool has been perfect for almost 2 months now and I haven’t even shocked the pool once in that span. Even when I brush I get no clouding or stuff settling at the bottom, so I would be hard pressed to think I have some sort of organic issue.

 

[proavia]

Here are my test results from about an hour ago.

I have been using the pool math app and I always keep FC on the high end of the ideal range as it recommends me to be at 4, but if I did that I would would probably be at 1.5 - 2 after a really sunny day.

My pool has been perfect for almost 2 months now and I haven’t even shocked the pool once in that span. Even when I brush I get no clouding or stuff settling at the bottom, so I would be hard pressed to think I have some sort of organic issue.

If the CYA reading falls between any two markings on the test vial, round up to the next larger/higher number.
A reading of "35" gets rounded up to 40 and gets entered in PoolMath as CYA 40.

A pool maintained to TFP standards NEVER needs to be "shocked".

 

[Brettacus]

If the CYA reading falls between any two markings on the test vial, round up to the next larger/higher number.
A reading of "35" gets rounded up to 40 and gets entered in PoolMath as CYA 40.

A pool maintained to TFP standards NEVER needs to be "shocked".

That’s great to know. I have been following TFP standards for 2 months now and have never had a single issue. Before I was shocking once or twice a week and felt like I could never swim.

I found TFP, slammed the pool (took about 12 pounds of shock until it passed the 3 tests) and ever since it’s been perfect.

I was worried about if I ever needed to shock, but it’s good to know that if I maintain everything then I don’t need to.

Thanks to everyone here, things have been so much easier.