My husband and I bought our home last spring and it came with a pool that hadnt been opened in a year. The cover was ripped and the water was basically black. We removed the cover last summer because it was just shedding into the pool. We weren't living in the house yet so we couldn't devote time to the pool which then turned into a frog habit. We are finally living here and since May 2nd have been fighting this pool non stop with barely anything to show. We shocked it hard and got it milky blue. We were going to the "pool store" in town religiously and getting all different things to balance the water. In the beginning, our CYA was 0, FC was 0, and our Ph was low. We did what ever and added who knows what. I stopped believing them and found this site. I put in the calculator our pool info and did the amount of stablizer to get to about 40 cya. We were using strip testers and it said the cya was 0, then a few days later it was 30ish like it should be. I was so happy but the water was still a cloudy mess. We have never seen the bottom, ever. So I caved and bought the K2006 and tested the cya. HAHA. 90 is what I was getting. I was so mad. We then measured our pool and found that the previous owners told us the wrong measurements so what I was calculating as a 17k gallon pool is actually only 13.5k gallons. So I did wayyy too much stablizer. We drained our pool half way and refilled it yesterday/ this morning. It's still cloudy but not milky blue like it was. I know 1st I should test the cya again to insure it went down. But then what are my next steps with prepping the water? Is it just to raise it to SLAM again until it's clear?
TL;DR - pool was milky blue, cya was 90. Did a half drain and refilled. Now what?
TL;DR - pool was milky blue, cya was 90. Did a half drain and refilled. Now what?
