Hello all!
My husband, 17 month-old and I (a clinical pharmacist) recently moved into our forever home, complete with our first pool. After some perusal on here, and some massive frustrations trying to balance our pool, It looks like the $200 in pool chemicals that our local pool supplier sold us may be quite the overkill, and possibly not quite what we need anyway ....
Looks like the strips that we've been using may not be the best resource, per this site, and I'm about to plunk down another $70 to get the Taylor 100 kit. We had algae, and lots of sediment, after our post-winter opening last month. We seem to have gotten *most* everything stable and in the desired range (again, per the test strips), but our chlorine keeps disappearing, even though we have the 3" pucks floating at all times. When we shock the pool with the appropriate packs of granular, non-chlorine shock, the chlorine level skyrockets for a day or slightly more, then disappears again. I have 2-3 pucks in the floater, and feel frustrated. We have yet to enjoy our pool, as we can't seem to get that chlorine under control and I do not want to expose my little one to massively over-chlorinated or way under-chlorinated (the germs! the germs!!!) pool water.
Any off-the-cuff suggestions until I can get some good numbers from the kits? Am I being paranoid about the water? It looks clear and barely smells of any chlorine at all (which is probably correct, from what I see), but I don't want anyone getting sick.
Thank you kindly for your attention, and happy swimming, all!
My husband, 17 month-old and I (a clinical pharmacist) recently moved into our forever home, complete with our first pool. After some perusal on here, and some massive frustrations trying to balance our pool, It looks like the $200 in pool chemicals that our local pool supplier sold us may be quite the overkill, and possibly not quite what we need anyway ....
Looks like the strips that we've been using may not be the best resource, per this site, and I'm about to plunk down another $70 to get the Taylor 100 kit. We had algae, and lots of sediment, after our post-winter opening last month. We seem to have gotten *most* everything stable and in the desired range (again, per the test strips), but our chlorine keeps disappearing, even though we have the 3" pucks floating at all times. When we shock the pool with the appropriate packs of granular, non-chlorine shock, the chlorine level skyrockets for a day or slightly more, then disappears again. I have 2-3 pucks in the floater, and feel frustrated. We have yet to enjoy our pool, as we can't seem to get that chlorine under control and I do not want to expose my little one to massively over-chlorinated or way under-chlorinated (the germs! the germs!!!) pool water.
Any off-the-cuff suggestions until I can get some good numbers from the kits? Am I being paranoid about the water? It looks clear and barely smells of any chlorine at all (which is probably correct, from what I see), but I don't want anyone getting sick.
Thank you kindly for your attention, and happy swimming, all!
