Gday folks,
I've been busy at work and have let my pool develop some algae.
I just purchased a taylor k-2006c kit and want to SLAM my pool but have some preliminary questions. I have a salt water pool with a jandy 1400 generator. The pool store mistakenly told me to add too much salt at the beginning of the season and my salt is now too high and causing my cell not to generate chlorine. It's at 4200 ppm according to my cell, but jandy says I should have it between 3000-3500. I just dumped a bunch of water and am in the process of refilling to the point that hopefully brings the salt down to the correct level. If I find my salt is still too high, is there much point in starting to SLAM it? I have a long weekend free (unusual) and really want to get this fixed so I'm hoping I could continue and fix the salt issue after.
My second question, my CYA looks to be low for a salt pool. I had it around 40 before and as I run my first test with the Taylor kit it looks to be below 30. Obviously I need to get it up. 1) I understand from TFP that a salt pool CYA should be around 70-80. If that's the case, how much liquid CYA should I dump to get it to acceptable levels? 3) do I need to wait a period of time before I SLAM?
My last question - for anyone who has followed the slam process before, how much chlorine (approx as I know it's different for every pool depending) do I really need to buy? I'm going to go refill some jugs and just want to know how much I should bring home to minimize my trips back to the pool store.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE. Really hoping to get back on track.
I've been busy at work and have let my pool develop some algae.
I just purchased a taylor k-2006c kit and want to SLAM my pool but have some preliminary questions. I have a salt water pool with a jandy 1400 generator. The pool store mistakenly told me to add too much salt at the beginning of the season and my salt is now too high and causing my cell not to generate chlorine. It's at 4200 ppm according to my cell, but jandy says I should have it between 3000-3500. I just dumped a bunch of water and am in the process of refilling to the point that hopefully brings the salt down to the correct level. If I find my salt is still too high, is there much point in starting to SLAM it? I have a long weekend free (unusual) and really want to get this fixed so I'm hoping I could continue and fix the salt issue after.
My second question, my CYA looks to be low for a salt pool. I had it around 40 before and as I run my first test with the Taylor kit it looks to be below 30. Obviously I need to get it up. 1) I understand from TFP that a salt pool CYA should be around 70-80. If that's the case, how much liquid CYA should I dump to get it to acceptable levels? 3) do I need to wait a period of time before I SLAM?
My last question - for anyone who has followed the slam process before, how much chlorine (approx as I know it's different for every pool depending) do I really need to buy? I'm going to go refill some jugs and just want to know how much I should bring home to minimize my trips back to the pool store.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE. Really hoping to get back on track.