I have a chlorine pool with an approximate 25k gal capacity. For context when I opened the pool it was dark green filled with algae. I have been SLAMing for 2 days now and running my sand filter 24/7 (16 total 1 lb bags of Leslie’s Power Powder Plus shock). This is 2 days of quadruple shock based off of a 1 lb bag treating 16.5k gal if I rounded my pool’s capacity up to 30k gal.
I’ve just gotten it to a good decent total chlorine level, but I’m unsure where to go from here. I’ve been using pool strips every morning and sunsets. Pool chemistry is:
Hardness - 120 ppm
Total Chlorine - 1 ppm
Free Chlorine - 0.5 ppm
Bromine - 0 ppm
Alkalinity - 80 ppm
Cyanuric Acid - was 0, expected to be 30 ppm with recent conditioner addition
pH - about 7.2
I held off on adding any CYA until now because I didn’t want to overchlorinate the pool and risk needing to de-chlorinate.
Since Total Chlorine is still somewhat high, is it a good plan to add 2 more lbs of shock which adds 6 ppm of chlorine to my pool? Or should I continue with 8 more lbs of shock? I don’t want to over chlorinate and waste money on more chemcials to bring FC back down. I anticipate the pH to rise naturally with shock additions as well. When chemistry is balanced, I’ll add clarifier in the end.
Thanks for the help!
I’ve just gotten it to a good decent total chlorine level, but I’m unsure where to go from here. I’ve been using pool strips every morning and sunsets. Pool chemistry is:
Hardness - 120 ppm
Total Chlorine - 1 ppm
Free Chlorine - 0.5 ppm
Bromine - 0 ppm
Alkalinity - 80 ppm
Cyanuric Acid - was 0, expected to be 30 ppm with recent conditioner addition
pH - about 7.2
I held off on adding any CYA until now because I didn’t want to overchlorinate the pool and risk needing to de-chlorinate.
Since Total Chlorine is still somewhat high, is it a good plan to add 2 more lbs of shock which adds 6 ppm of chlorine to my pool? Or should I continue with 8 more lbs of shock? I don’t want to over chlorinate and waste money on more chemcials to bring FC back down. I anticipate the pH to rise naturally with shock additions as well. When chemistry is balanced, I’ll add clarifier in the end.
Thanks for the help!