Hello! Recently we have started to maintain our own pool, as we wanted to save some money by getting rid of the guy who did it for us. All was going well until about a month later, (now). My first issue is usually go to the pool store to get my pool readings (chlorine was low, 1ppm, I hadn't put tablets for the week yet), I told him we use tablets and the guy said that chlorine tablets do not raise chlorine levels, just maintain. So I asked if he could give me something to raise it, which he did, (pool shock). I found it kind of weird that tablets wouldn't raise the levels, so I didn't use the shock immediately to see if it was true. The chlorine level was back up to around 5 the next day so I just kept the pool shock which leads to the second issue. About a week later Algae was blooming, nothing major, just some green dirt that needed to be brushed. I read that you're supposed to shock when that happens as well as a bit of algaecide, so they came in handy. Did that last night and let the pump run since. Woke up in the morning to find pretty high amounts of white powder, which i'm assuming is Shock just sitting at the bottom of the pool by the drain. I thought that was odd but brushed it off then moved on with my day, 9 hours later i noticed that the dust came back a little bit, brushed it again. 24+ hours later the chlorine level is still off the charts, my tester says way above 10ppm, shouldn't it have come back down by now? Sorry for the big block of words and these might be retarded questions so I apologize.
I don't have a full tester yet just the taylor basic, my current levels are:
Chlorine: 10+PPM
PH: ~8.0
Another issue is that the pools plaster seems to be degrading at a high rate, (copper color stains, sandpaper rough, can't be brushed) even though the plaster is supposed to have 5+ more years left according to the inspection report from June 2018. I can provide additional pics if needed.
Thank you!!
I don't have a full tester yet just the taylor basic, my current levels are:
Chlorine: 10+PPM
PH: ~8.0
Another issue is that the pools plaster seems to be degrading at a high rate, (copper color stains, sandpaper rough, can't be brushed) even though the plaster is supposed to have 5+ more years left according to the inspection report from June 2018. I can provide additional pics if needed.
Thank you!!