I'm in process of reparing my swg that chlorinates the pool. I'm also leaving town Sunday for a week. In case I don't get the system fixed is there a temporary fix for chlorinating the pool for a week? I don't have a chlorinator any more, it got destroyed in the big freeze two years ago and I bypassed it and haven't replaced it yet. I've tried a single floater before and that really didn't help at all. It just needs to get me by for about a week.
manual method of chlorinating the pool
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clambert1273
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- Jun 13, 2013
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- Chlorine
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- CircuPool Edge-40
Float a few after dosing to Slam level before you leave 
that's where my head goes lol
that's where my head goes lol
KJB1
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I usually dump a gallon of chlorine in before leaving and 4 tablets in a floater / inline chlorinator. Should last 7 days
Raise your FC to SLAM level and put tabs in a floater. Do you have a cover you can put on? That may help FC loss in the Texas sun.
Oly
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A week of Texas sun will do a job on high free chlorine levels. You might make it with the advice above. Can you find a neighbor to add a ready, pre-measured amount of liquid mid way through the week?
Thanks all. I checked it the last couple of days after installing the thermistor and it's generating chlorine. So I SLAMed the pool with 10ppm before I left. When I got back it was at about 4ppm so all is good. And for the first time since all this trouble started at the beginning of the season the pool is not green! It is however very black spotted, the largest outbreak of black algae I've ever had. I don't know where that stuff comes from, but I thought I was done with it 4 years ago when I replastered the pool. But now it's slam and brush time for a couple of weeks!
- Jun 1, 2018
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- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
- Jun 1, 2018
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- 26000
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- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Black Algae
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As I said in the thread above, I wanted it high because I was gone for a week and the system had just been repaired and was catching up. So I wasn't really SLAMMing it as much as pre-loading it while the system caught up. And it worked. CYA had been about 10% when I started up this year, due to leaks in the system over the winter, but was up to about 50 by the time I returned. So all is a bit better now. After letting it settle down, adding water then of course 3 inches of rain, I'll check it again in a couple of days when all is stable again.
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- Jun 1, 2018
- 16,040
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
I was meaning that 10ppm fc is not high nor near slam level for most cya levels. The recommended cya range for a swg pool is 60-80ppm, more towards 80 in texas mid summer or it makes it very hard for the swg to keep up. The sun will consume the fc faster than the swg can make it.
Before increasing your cya above 30/40ppm be sure to do an
Overnight Chlorine Loss Test & deal with the black algae.