Just took ownership of a pool

[JoshuaDavid]

Hello everyone, this is my first post here after reading a ton. I'm excited to start maintaining my pool and hopefully saving on the monthly upkeep cost.

I have been using a pool company, but no longer... They basically sabotaged my pool and didn't want to come fix it and cancelled my contract.
So long story short on Friday May 24 a water hose was left running for approximately 8 hours causing my pool to overfill and flood my yard.
The next day we had a huge party with a lot of children. And the day after that the pool looked like a swamp.

I've been taking samples to Leslies and am not seeing the results I would expect given that I've been treating the water as suggest for a week now.
I've spent a ton a chlorine and it just keeps disappearing.

I did order a test kit today and am waiting for that to arrive, but in the meantime how should I treat this based on current results?

My setup:
10,000 gallon in ground liner
filter: Pentair - Sta-Rite System 3 S7M120
1 main pump
1 booster pump

Leslies results as of today:
Free Chlorine: .16
Total Chlorine: .72
pH: 7.2
Total Alkalinity: 84
Calcium Hardness: 155
Cyanuric Acid: 27
Iron: .1
Copper: .5
Phosphates: 2863
TDS: 900

 

[reggiehammond]

10,000 gal pool to go from 0 FC (free chlorine) to 5 FC would take 1/2 gallon of 10% liquid chlorine (available Walmart, Home Depot, etc)
Just add that daily until your test kit arrives. It's utterly pointless to use pool store testing for anything more.

Once you have a kit, post a full set of test results and we can take it from there. Likely just need an easy little SLAM Process and you'll be back to normal.

 

[JoshuaDavid]

Good evening, I received my testing kit today and these are my results

FC .5
CC 1.5
TA 90
CH 275
CYA 40

The pool still looks the same as in my original post, but slightly clearer and less foamy. (I can see my drains in the deep end)

 

[mknauss]

Test the pH. Lower the pH to 7.2 if necessary.

Raise the FC to SLAM Level for a CYA of 40. That is 16 ppm FC. Maintain that level by testing and adding liquid chlorine several times each day.

Read the SLAM Process

 

[JoshuaDavid]

I’m not entirely sure how to read this for ph testing.

 

[mc2021]

Are you sure you used the right reagent bottle to test the ph? It should have a red cap. If you did that is really low and you need to get it up.

I questioned it since I'm not sure you can get ph that low with a TA of 90. Here's the PH wiki page if you tested correctly

PH - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[JoshuaDavid]

Are you sure you used the right reagent bottle to test the ph? It should have a red cap. If you did that is really low and you need to get it up.

I questioned it since I'm not sure you can get ph that low with a TA of 90. Here's the PH wiki page if you tested correctly

PH - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

I did it incorrectly the first time. I think it’s 7.5 or 7.8

 

[jconnpac]

I did it incorrectly the first time. I think it’s 7.5 or 7.8

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I believe the fill line is the black line at the top, not where it says “max”