We have a 30,000 gal in ground pool with liner that has been a baquacil pool. The pool was 85% drained the refilled after the winter and sadly even though there was this much dilution the baquacil still shows within suggested baquacil range. We are trying to decide if we should just fully drain the pool, change the filter media and switch to salt at that time OR if we can treat the current water before switching to Salt.
We have added non-chlorine shock and are in the process of balancing the pH which is currently low. We are starting to get algae in the pool corners but do not want to add in the baquacil since we want to switch.
Questions:
1) If we drain it, what else needs to be done either before draining or after as part of the process of switching to salt
2) Alternatively if we continue on the route to treat the current water do we simply keep adding non-chlorine shock until there is no baquacil? Do we at some point start adding chlorine? What to do about algae buildup during this switchover time. We don't want to add more baquacil (so what do we do)?
3) What test kit should we use for this process?
All suggestions appreciated!
We have added non-chlorine shock and are in the process of balancing the pH which is currently low. We are starting to get algae in the pool corners but do not want to add in the baquacil since we want to switch.
Questions:
1) If we drain it, what else needs to be done either before draining or after as part of the process of switching to salt
2) Alternatively if we continue on the route to treat the current water do we simply keep adding non-chlorine shock until there is no baquacil? Do we at some point start adding chlorine? What to do about algae buildup during this switchover time. We don't want to add more baquacil (so what do we do)?
3) What test kit should we use for this process?
All suggestions appreciated!
Here are our conversion instructions below. Even if you exchanged all the water, you still need to do this process to remove the goo in the filter and lines. If you wish to exchange more water to try and help the process, that's fine, just don't drop the water level too low.
