- Jan 21, 2014
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- Pool Size
- 20000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
usually in the 60oz (2.5-3ppm) range (8.25%). I'm going to bump my CYA up to 50 and see how that goes. (eventually)
How much chlorine do you put in daily?
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Gee all this talk about CYA of 50 makes me want to jump in. I am currently at 30. And my pool consumes 1.5 ppm
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30 ozs of 10% daily for last 5 days, maintains my FC at 5, currently at 40 CYA. Last 5 days been pretty rainy, so I'm sure that will go up when the REAL swim season starts here!
on average 60oz of 7.86% every couple days. Brings me from a 1.5 back up to a 4.5 and i'm good for a couple more days. My CYA is around 35 and i'm thinking of bringing that up to around 45 to 50. 1/2 the pool is shaded all day.
I'm glad you asked because I was going to. I almost have this down to a science but I'm still new. My little 6,000 gallon pool gets plenty of sun and active bathers. My pool is a SWG pool and I seem to go through 12oz per day of the 8.25% bleach. I try to keep my FC at 6 and I lose 1.5 to 2.0ppm daily. I measure in the AM sometimes and add the difference that night plus the loss which by next morning should have me sitting at 7.5 FC and never lower than 6.0 FC. by the way, my CYA is 70.
Full sun all day long - just bumped CYA up from 40 to 45ish. I lose approx. 3ppm each day and it takes approx. 8 cups of 10% to keep my Chlorine level at 6.
I usually lose about 3FC a day. For me that's around 20oz depending on if I'm using the 10% or the 8.25%. I dose for 8 and it usually tests 5-5.5 the next day.
My CYA *was* between 30-35 but with a few backwashes and a top off I think I've dropped below 30. Thinking about bumping my CYA up to 40. I might actually use a couple of tabs I have left over from the old days... *gasp* Gonna check the ol pool math to see what it would take.
My CYA *was* between 30-35 but with a few backwashes and a top off I think I've dropped below 30. Thinking about bumping my CYA up to 40. I might actually use a couple of tabs I have left over from the old days... *gasp* Gonna check the ol pool math to see what it would take.
CYA 50
20K gallons
Add typically 2PPM a day
Most evenings the TC is 4.5 and I hit it with 60OZ to kick it up to 6.5 give or take
Been working well so far this summer w/ pretty high temps and lots of sun
South Carolina
20K gallons
Add typically 2PPM a day
Most evenings the TC is 4.5 and I hit it with 60OZ to kick it up to 6.5 give or take
Been working well so far this summer w/ pretty high temps and lots of sun
South Carolina
I have a 10,000 gal. vinyl. The cya is 60. i live near Beaumont. I was using 1 cup of bleach during the winter months, but now i am using 4 cups to maintain 4 ppm.
my cya WAS around 40, and I am using 32 oz of 8.25 each sundown. But, my CYA seems to have dropped. So in addition to the 32 oz I have two tabs in the floater.
Just bough 10%, so I'll have to recalc.
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I feel bad about all the wasted plastic. might look into the refill options.
Just bough 10%, so I'll have to recalc.
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I feel bad about all the wasted plastic. might look into the refill options.
We average about 2 ppm a day (22 Oz of 12.5%) with cya at 40 ppm. Just a note, our cya was 30 at the beginning of the season and we were losing 4 ppm a day.
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if your only burning 1.5 ppm per day, id leave it alone. Its unlikely to get much better than that.
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our town has a plastic recycling bin near city center. Thats where mine go. 36 bottles last year. I expect to triple that this year on a pool with 3 times the water. You might check and see if you have a bin nearby. Then you wont feel so bad about it.
Mostly cloudy day today. Only lost 2 FC. Time to up CYA.
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About 2ppm per day (25-30 CYA, mostly covered) but for me that's only about 2 oz of 10.5% bleach per day 
I have to say it's really cool to see the responses from others in how much bleach, %, they put in their X gallon pool... it helps give me an idea of how much chlorine my pool should be using up.
oh we have curbside recycling, it's just more than I'd like. But we go through like two gallons of milk and a dozen hard lemonade bottles eash week, so I try to keep it in perspective
Very similar here. I lose about 2 ppm per day since it has started getting warmer. Typically, I add about 24 oz of bleach every other day. I like to keep it around 7ppm. I don't want to risk getting algae again...after a year like last year.
After reading through these, I need to get my CYA up to 50. CYA has been hanging around 20-25. I have only used bleach since startup 2 years ago and get a good amount of splash out with 4 boys in it everyday all summer. I feared the CYA monster after reading all the stories here on TFP and was keeping it on the low side. Time to bump up CYA and use less bleach, I am putting a full jug almost every day to be on the safe side with our full NM sun and constant swimming of four boys. I'd like to go to a half jug or less daily.
Thanks for all the insight in this thread.
J.
Thanks for all the insight in this thread.
J.
dialing in your CYA to control FC usage is the true secret to the TFPC method. Get it dialed in perfect, and enjoy a TFP at as low of a cost as possible. Get it dialed in at start of season, re-check it mid season to make sure you are still good to go, make any adjustments needed.
also, from my experience, Jason has that pool calc dead on with the CYA calculations (all of them really) and if you have accurate test results, measure out and add EXACTLY the amount of stabilizer that is needed, when you test again you will be right at where you wanted to be.
I use one jug of 8.25% per day give or take and my CYA is just under 30. Some days I need more and occasionally I can skip a day. It really depends on how much mud my lab/otter mix tracks into the pool and whether he decides to drop something nasty in the pool like a 8 foot tree branch so he can retrieve it. Sometimes the things he drops in the pool is dirty and sinks which uses up a bunch of my FC. It really is my dog's pool... I just maintain it for him.
