Hello! So we bought a house that has a 20K IG pool. Once we moved in and uncovered this thing, it made me vomit. Was dark green, smelled like sewer and seemed to have two feet of leaves and debris at bottom. I know/knew NOTHING of pools, so I just had the family out there raking up leaves for weeks, and I just kept dumping ungodly amounts of shock in, and run pump nonstop for months. Also, I found it key to buy a few new replacement filters and keep rotating them in (and cleaning out). They get incredible nasty quick! To my surprise, I actually got it decent after two months although very cloudy. We swam in for 4 days. Well couple days later, it turned green, and now it is out of hand nasty dark green again.
I started making long trips to Leslie's, where they told me conflicting analysis and kept selling me different chemicals. Last thing I did was add two buckets worth of dry acid over few days. This was done just before the whole thing went green, so not sure if it had something to do with the issue.
Frustrated, I told my family I am giving up and gonna rip the pool out. My youngest daughter pleaded her case, so I gave it one more attempt with a web search. I found this site and really like what I'm reading. You guys have given me hope. I'm gonna give it the ole college try!
I just bought the 2006c test kit and subscribed for Pool Math. Here are my initial readings (looks ugly right):
FC 0.3
pH 8.2
TA 140
CYA 10
So, based on what I've read, my plan is to:
1. put in suggested amount of Muriatic acid until pH comes into target.
2. put in stabilizer (no one has it around here, so had to order online, waiting)
3. THEN, go nuts with chlorine and SLAM it, to raise chlorine and kill algae
Does this sound right? Or should I be putting in shock/chlorine in now?
I started making long trips to Leslie's, where they told me conflicting analysis and kept selling me different chemicals. Last thing I did was add two buckets worth of dry acid over few days. This was done just before the whole thing went green, so not sure if it had something to do with the issue.
Frustrated, I told my family I am giving up and gonna rip the pool out. My youngest daughter pleaded her case, so I gave it one more attempt with a web search. I found this site and really like what I'm reading. You guys have given me hope. I'm gonna give it the ole college try!
I just bought the 2006c test kit and subscribed for Pool Math. Here are my initial readings (looks ugly right):
FC 0.3
pH 8.2
TA 140
CYA 10
So, based on what I've read, my plan is to:
1. put in suggested amount of Muriatic acid until pH comes into target.
2. put in stabilizer (no one has it around here, so had to order online, waiting)
3. THEN, go nuts with chlorine and SLAM it, to raise chlorine and kill algae
Does this sound right? Or should I be putting in shock/chlorine in now?