Kids will want to swim in 4 hours.....HELP please.

[67mike]

Did you add the CYA?

As Dan said, you need to keep adding chlorine as often as you need to, to keep the FC above 2ppm.

Since you already have the floater I'd put it back in there until it's used up. You can use poolmath to figure out how much CYA that will add to the pool and then only add more if needed.

Well this am fc is 1.....yay!

 

[DanielP]

Well this am fc is 1.....yay!

Oh no, that's better but still not good. You need to test and add chlorine more often. Did you ever determine how much CYA you should have in the pool now based on how much stabilizer you added and how many pucks were dissolved in the water?

 

[TrevNJPool]

Maybe this will help. The CYA (sunscreen for chlorine) has to be adjusted correctly so you know how much chlorine you have to keep in your pool so you dont start growing algae. You want to be around 30 if your going to use bleach. Less if your going to continue to use the pucks because each puck contains CYA. Once the CYA gets too high your chlorine dose will have to be super high just to do the minimum sanitizing of your pool. If you keep allowing your chlorine to go to zero or 1, we will be trying to explain the SLAM process in a day or two. Best way to fight algae is to prevent it.

 

[67mike]

Thanks