My neighbor just moved in and inherited a 22K pool. His kids have been using it regularly and I tried to get him to look at TFP (he manages it himself). Anyway fast forward month, the pool got really cloudy & yellow, it was also leaving tons of yellow stuff (I assumed algae) in his filter last week. Feeling bad I brought my test kit over and found the problem immediately (FC = 0) and as he has a chlorine feeder I was pretty sure there was a CYA issue, 1st test 100, 2nd diluted test 140 - 160 (not as bad as I thought). So in FL I would assume he would want that to be around 40-50 in summer. I also tested his PH (fine @ 7.4)
I recommended draining 2/3 of the pool and buying a bunch of liquid chlorine getting a test kit and I'd help him SLAM. Fortunately I actually had a 3 gallon pack that I had bought from home depot a couple months ago and needed to get rid of so we dumped all 3 in the pool. Well a few days later the pool cleared up and he's super happy. Now with 140+ CYA 3 gallons goes no where near SLAM intensity, I was wondering how that solved the problem? Anyway I haven't tested again or done an OCLT, so I think it's just a matter of time. He asked me if the issue would come back and I said "probably, but hopefully not"
Is it strange that 3 gallons of chlorine could clear up a pool with 140+ stabilizer? and is there any chance it will stay that way? Just wondering it caught me by surprise when it cleared up so easily.
I recommended draining 2/3 of the pool and buying a bunch of liquid chlorine getting a test kit and I'd help him SLAM. Fortunately I actually had a 3 gallon pack that I had bought from home depot a couple months ago and needed to get rid of so we dumped all 3 in the pool. Well a few days later the pool cleared up and he's super happy. Now with 140+ CYA 3 gallons goes no where near SLAM intensity, I was wondering how that solved the problem? Anyway I haven't tested again or done an OCLT, so I think it's just a matter of time. He asked me if the issue would come back and I said "probably, but hopefully not"
Is it strange that 3 gallons of chlorine could clear up a pool with 140+ stabilizer? and is there any chance it will stay that way? Just wondering it caught me by surprise when it cleared up so easily.
