Hi TFP Fam!
New home owner with pool for the first time. My pool guy left the pool green past couple months so took things into my own hand (it gets worse before it gets better right?)
Pool was dark green and large amounts of shock were barely putting a dent (apparently my skimmer might be leaking and needs a replacement?) Pool guy says thats the reason chlorine doesn't hold. My water bill so far has not been too high, so I'm assuming its a slow leak and under 500 gallons per month if even. I have an auto water re filler in the pool. (calling leak detection is on the list). I am in California and in the winter months there is no algae, less UV demand against the chlorine probably.
Anyways....went to Leslie's and bought some yellow out. Was suppose to use just 2 pounds of it and I gave him all the instructions.... pool guy uses 5 pounds.....and when I Ask him he just shrugs....I proceed to facepalm.
Next morning:
The pool has never been more blue (albeit cloudy). However as I have been researching on here....the chlorine demand is out of control. So the ammonium sulphate in yellow out probably created all sorts of chloramines and probably still large amounts of ammonia in there?
I don't have my taylor kit yet just strips (my pool guy does and he tests once a week when he comes), but I've been to different Leslie's and testing seems consistent with what they have (from what I read here its not accurate and many people here dont accept but I'm assuming its in the ball park and lets me know the big cc problem)
On day 1 he added enough liquid chlorine 12% to bring FC up to 10 initially
Leslie readings:
Day 3:
FC: 1
CC:13
PH: 8.7
TA: 155
CYA:5
Phosphates: 1325
day 4:
FC: .79
CC:11
PH: 8.7
TA:150
CYA:5
Phosphates:1322
I am assuming the excess ammonia is what is causing these insane CC numbers and not holding FC
So now that I am learning SLAM seems to be the method, where I keep it at 10 ppm consistently over a couple hours and initially checking every 15 minutes. I'll need my own chlorine kit for this obviously.
How much liquid chlorine do I need to stock up on to wage this war? Purchase 20-25 gallons?
Also would non chlorine shock help lower cc? It is an outdoor pool with heavy sun all day, will the cc continue to drop naturally? From my research here I assume some of it will and some of it wont. So maybe naturally it will come down to like 5-6ppm over the next couple days.
Continuing to learn! Thanks for any help/suggestions.
New home owner with pool for the first time. My pool guy left the pool green past couple months so took things into my own hand (it gets worse before it gets better right?)
Pool was dark green and large amounts of shock were barely putting a dent (apparently my skimmer might be leaking and needs a replacement?) Pool guy says thats the reason chlorine doesn't hold. My water bill so far has not been too high, so I'm assuming its a slow leak and under 500 gallons per month if even. I have an auto water re filler in the pool. (calling leak detection is on the list). I am in California and in the winter months there is no algae, less UV demand against the chlorine probably.
Anyways....went to Leslie's and bought some yellow out. Was suppose to use just 2 pounds of it and I gave him all the instructions.... pool guy uses 5 pounds.....and when I Ask him he just shrugs....I proceed to facepalm.
Next morning:
The pool has never been more blue (albeit cloudy). However as I have been researching on here....the chlorine demand is out of control. So the ammonium sulphate in yellow out probably created all sorts of chloramines and probably still large amounts of ammonia in there?
I don't have my taylor kit yet just strips (my pool guy does and he tests once a week when he comes), but I've been to different Leslie's and testing seems consistent with what they have (from what I read here its not accurate and many people here dont accept but I'm assuming its in the ball park and lets me know the big cc problem)
On day 1 he added enough liquid chlorine 12% to bring FC up to 10 initially
Leslie readings:
Day 3:
FC: 1
CC:13
PH: 8.7
TA: 155
CYA:5
Phosphates: 1325
day 4:
FC: .79
CC:11
PH: 8.7
TA:150
CYA:5
Phosphates:1322
I am assuming the excess ammonia is what is causing these insane CC numbers and not holding FC
So now that I am learning SLAM seems to be the method, where I keep it at 10 ppm consistently over a couple hours and initially checking every 15 minutes. I'll need my own chlorine kit for this obviously.
How much liquid chlorine do I need to stock up on to wage this war? Purchase 20-25 gallons?
Also would non chlorine shock help lower cc? It is an outdoor pool with heavy sun all day, will the cc continue to drop naturally? From my research here I assume some of it will and some of it wont. So maybe naturally it will come down to like 5-6ppm over the next couple days.
Continuing to learn! Thanks for any help/suggestions.