I recently had some concrete repair done on my pool. I live in a cold climate and the thing is covered all the time which means crumbling concrete after a few years.
This took longer than anticipated. The weather has just been rain, rain, rain, which wasn't a problem with the concrete itself but they offered (and I accepted) for them to paint over the patches so it's not discolored everywhere.
The problem is, with all the rain we've been having and with all the vacuuming needed for cleanup, a not-insignificant portion of my water got replaced. Unbeknownst to me, this meant my salt got lowered to the point the SWG cut out. I didn't realize it at the time, and three days of no-chlorine-being-generated later I go test and the DPD tube is clear before I even start titrating it.
*sigh*
So now I need a bag of salt, when I haven't ever actually needed to add salt yet so I dunno where the heck I'm going to source it from.
I also need to test the CYA, but I hate that test and I'm profoundly frustrated right now so it can wait until morning.
Once I know the CYA, I'll probably need to rent a tanker truck full of chlorine because it takes (to me, at least, when I'm less frustrated I realize my pool isn't that big) a ton of it to SLAM my pool when it's got enough CYA for the SWG. A SLAM that only needs done because I didn't notice said SWG flipping it's wig because I was trying a new FC test and didn't have time to do a proper DPD test to confirm my wonky test results before now.
I went ahead and dumped a jug of chlorine I had sitting on the shelf on the pool and will find someplace to get my supplies tomorrow. This post is...about 30% me coming in to vent because my kids have been bugging me to let them in the pool for the last week and it's still not read yet, and 70% asking for advice. How quickly can I get the pool safe and ready? We're likely to have inclement weather tomorrow (AGAIN!), so I can probably put them off for another day, but I'm ready to get these kids physically active in the water and learning to swim.
This took longer than anticipated. The weather has just been rain, rain, rain, which wasn't a problem with the concrete itself but they offered (and I accepted) for them to paint over the patches so it's not discolored everywhere.
The problem is, with all the rain we've been having and with all the vacuuming needed for cleanup, a not-insignificant portion of my water got replaced. Unbeknownst to me, this meant my salt got lowered to the point the SWG cut out. I didn't realize it at the time, and three days of no-chlorine-being-generated later I go test and the DPD tube is clear before I even start titrating it.
*sigh*
So now I need a bag of salt, when I haven't ever actually needed to add salt yet so I dunno where the heck I'm going to source it from.
I also need to test the CYA, but I hate that test and I'm profoundly frustrated right now so it can wait until morning.
Once I know the CYA, I'll probably need to rent a tanker truck full of chlorine because it takes (to me, at least, when I'm less frustrated I realize my pool isn't that big) a ton of it to SLAM my pool when it's got enough CYA for the SWG. A SLAM that only needs done because I didn't notice said SWG flipping it's wig because I was trying a new FC test and didn't have time to do a proper DPD test to confirm my wonky test results before now.
I went ahead and dumped a jug of chlorine I had sitting on the shelf on the pool and will find someplace to get my supplies tomorrow. This post is...about 30% me coming in to vent because my kids have been bugging me to let them in the pool for the last week and it's still not read yet, and 70% asking for advice. How quickly can I get the pool safe and ready? We're likely to have inclement weather tomorrow (AGAIN!), so I can probably put them off for another day, but I'm ready to get these kids physically active in the water and learning to swim.