My pool water is needing help

[Loyal_Lion]

I would raise your pH by 0.4. Do you have 20 mule team borax on hand? If so use it and pool math to raise pH by 0.4. Test pH 30 minutes later and report pH.
If you don't have 20 mule, test pH tomorrow. With a TA of 120, your pH should rise naturally. If it gets into the 7s, then don't add 20 mule (except below).
If still in the 6s tomorrow, get some 20 mule team borax and raise pH by 0.4.

As to next steps, that is to SLAM the pool. You need the K-1515 to SLAM.
You can add 3ppm per day of liquid chlorine, nothing else.
You can also add 30ppm CYA to the pool in prep for the SLAM. Use the sock method. After it is soaking for 30 minutes, start squeezing the sock...it should dissolve fairly quickly. When the sock hits the water, then switch to adding 5ppm per day until the K-1515 arrives. (Add either 3ppm without CYA or 5ppm with the sock in the water...don't add 3, then add sock, then add 5ppm...make sense?)

I don't have any 20 mule team borax on hand but will test pH in the morning. Current reading on chlorine is reading 2-4ppm as of a few minutes ago at 9pm EST. I do have some stabilizer but have not yet added any back into the pool based on your previous feedback. Sounds like I can add some back tomorrow to get to 30ppm? Should I add more liquid now before I go to bed to bump it up overnight?

 

[PoolStored]

Sounds like I can add some back tomorrow to get to 30ppm?

Yep, then add 5ppm of liquid chlorine until the K-1515 arrives...then SLAM! Link-->SLAM Process

Should I add more liquid now before I go to bed to bump it up overnight?

Nah. Start tomorrow with CYA and 5ppm.

 

[Loyal_Lion]

Will do. Thank you so much for your guidance! Much appreciated!

 

[PoolStored]

Will do. Thank you so much for your guidance! Much appreciated!

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[Loyal_Lion]

This morning ALL free chlorine is gone. Very little total. I had a feeling it wouldn't maintain over night.

 

[PoolStored]

then add 5ppm of liquid chlorine until the K-1515 arrives...then SLAM! Link-->SLAM Process

 

[Loyal_Lion]

OK. Heading out of town for a week starting tomorrow so I'll have to do this when I get back. I'm sure I will see green pool when I get back.

 

[TinFoilHat]

You don't have anyone to add one gallon of chlorine to the pool every day for you? A trusted neighbor?

 

[Loyal_Lion]

You don't have anyone to add one gallon of chlorine to the pool every day for you? A trusted neighbor?

I do, but it will take way more than a gallon a day to maintain any fc for even a few hours. I dumped 9 gallons in last night and by this morning it was gone.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Then buy a pallet and have it delivered to your garage and they can use it.

 

[Loyal_Lion]

Then buy a pallet and have it delivered to your garage and they can use it.

No kidding. Thats probably what it would take, lol. Already gone through 25 gallons since Saturday and not a dent so might take a tanker truck full of it. On a serious note, since I am leaving for a week I turned the chlorinator back on and within 5 minutes the pool had the white sheets of foamy material again. 5 minutes! Crazy. The whole time it's been off and I've been adding liquid it did not happen, turn it back on and boom! Looks like snow and ice on the water surface.

 

[mknauss]

The foam from a SWCG happens every spring on certain pools. Seems to be a combination of water temperature, chemistry, flow rate, and SWCG type. Once the water warms, it typically goes away pretty rapidly.