Please help!
New pool fill, vinyl liner, 24K gallons, SWG. It was filled with well water and water trucked in. Turns out the truck that brought the water in, is a truck that they fertilize fields with. So, there was some concern of ammonia, however she never tested it.
My friend tried using pool math and the TFP method but we could never get the water balanced. The ph was always low, it would not hold a chlorine level. So she instituted help from a pool guy friend. He added some blue balancing packs (??) to it and then gave them shock to use every 4 hrs over a few day period. Interestingly, when they would add shock it would create a smoke type effect above the water.
The FC would be around 4.5, combined chloramines at 10 and pH at 6.2 and somehow the CYA crept up to 100. We think maybe something he added to the pool caused the CYA to jump up because before that, it was reading almost 0, even though she had added stabilizer. So, they drained several feet of pool water and have refilled with well water. Below are their #s now and we need HELP!
We read where you do a series of every 15 minute chlorine level checks, while you try to maintain a FC level of 5 (or is it 10) by adding bleach? How long do you do this series? I assume the goal is to hold a FC level at a certain # but not sure how long you are supposed to hold it. Once this series is done, is that when we are supposed to proceed with the SLAM?
Should we try to get the ph level up before we start with above?
FC- 1
CC- 8
pH- 6.8
TA- 80
CH- 325
CYA- 70
Water is clear with some green areas in the deep end.
Any help is greatly appreciated. My friend’s husband has already kicked the robot cleaner and broke its wheels over this, so we need some help before more damage is done… lol!
New pool fill, vinyl liner, 24K gallons, SWG. It was filled with well water and water trucked in. Turns out the truck that brought the water in, is a truck that they fertilize fields with. So, there was some concern of ammonia, however she never tested it.
My friend tried using pool math and the TFP method but we could never get the water balanced. The ph was always low, it would not hold a chlorine level. So she instituted help from a pool guy friend. He added some blue balancing packs (??) to it and then gave them shock to use every 4 hrs over a few day period. Interestingly, when they would add shock it would create a smoke type effect above the water.
The FC would be around 4.5, combined chloramines at 10 and pH at 6.2 and somehow the CYA crept up to 100. We think maybe something he added to the pool caused the CYA to jump up because before that, it was reading almost 0, even though she had added stabilizer. So, they drained several feet of pool water and have refilled with well water. Below are their #s now and we need HELP!
We read where you do a series of every 15 minute chlorine level checks, while you try to maintain a FC level of 5 (or is it 10) by adding bleach? How long do you do this series? I assume the goal is to hold a FC level at a certain # but not sure how long you are supposed to hold it. Once this series is done, is that when we are supposed to proceed with the SLAM?
Should we try to get the ph level up before we start with above?
FC- 1
CC- 8
pH- 6.8
TA- 80
CH- 325
CYA- 70
Water is clear with some green areas in the deep end.
Any help is greatly appreciated. My friend’s husband has already kicked the robot cleaner and broke its wheels over this, so we need some help before more damage is done… lol!
