Hello All,
I purchased a home last year that had an inground pool in which the previous owners were using Baquacil/CDX. Spent the whole summer last year trying to clear a cloudy pool and watching others enjoy their clear chlorine pools. This year I decided to make the switch and went to the local pool store for their advice and testing. I hadn't added any Baquacil chemicals since last August and when they tested my pool water in the middle of June the Sanitizer was measuring 21ppm and the Oxidizer was reading 1ppm. I was advised to powder shock it with 4 lbs of oxidizing shock to which to pool lit up green (but was blue by morning) and then from that point on dump 2 gallon of liquid shock (12.5%) every evening until the pool no longer reacts. After 16 days and still getting a reaction I decided to join TFPs and started doing this method (started last Friday). I bought the TF-100 XL kit and have been adding enough chlorine (8-12 gallons per day) to achieve 15 ppm FC with little change in the reaction that I was seeing before. I searched forums all day yesterday and came across advice to clean the sand bed of my filter for baqua goo and sure enough when I pulled the cover off the filter this morning it was a nasty bed of goo (sorry no pics). Becoming very frustrated and ready to drain the pool down, is there something I can do to speed the process up? I had the water tested too last week and the water test said I had 7 ppm of baquacil remaining in the pool (no idea how accurate that is where I've been shocking it like crazy). Any advice is appreciated! I'll try my best too to answer any questions about my pool/situation.
Thanks,
Dan Mac
I purchased a home last year that had an inground pool in which the previous owners were using Baquacil/CDX. Spent the whole summer last year trying to clear a cloudy pool and watching others enjoy their clear chlorine pools. This year I decided to make the switch and went to the local pool store for their advice and testing. I hadn't added any Baquacil chemicals since last August and when they tested my pool water in the middle of June the Sanitizer was measuring 21ppm and the Oxidizer was reading 1ppm. I was advised to powder shock it with 4 lbs of oxidizing shock to which to pool lit up green (but was blue by morning) and then from that point on dump 2 gallon of liquid shock (12.5%) every evening until the pool no longer reacts. After 16 days and still getting a reaction I decided to join TFPs and started doing this method (started last Friday). I bought the TF-100 XL kit and have been adding enough chlorine (8-12 gallons per day) to achieve 15 ppm FC with little change in the reaction that I was seeing before. I searched forums all day yesterday and came across advice to clean the sand bed of my filter for baqua goo and sure enough when I pulled the cover off the filter this morning it was a nasty bed of goo (sorry no pics). Becoming very frustrated and ready to drain the pool down, is there something I can do to speed the process up? I had the water tested too last week and the water test said I had 7 ppm of baquacil remaining in the pool (no idea how accurate that is where I've been shocking it like crazy). Any advice is appreciated! I'll try my best too to answer any questions about my pool/situation.
Thanks,
Dan Mac