Ready for the Slam and need guidance PLEASE.

[Flying Tivo]

Are you testing with the 5ml sample, it will save you on reagents. Also fill in your signature with your pool info.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

I am using 10 ml. Is all my info not in my signature? I thought I had it all added.

 

[mknauss]

More detail the better in the signature. See ours. If on a phone, turn it sideways to see the signatures.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

I guess I don’t know enough about it so hard to post more. After all I am a woman and I am learning and have a long way to go lol.
Btw; we are getting a little rain right now. How or will this effect my pool chemicals and the slam process?

 

[mknauss]

That's OK -- if we need more info later we will guide you on how to find it.

Rain has little effect on water chemistry. You might get wet adding your chlorine, but no other issues.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

Ok so between my daughter and myself we have managed to stay on this today and work to. We have tried to maintain shock level 12 with success sometimes fluctuating between 9.5 - 12. I am still not getting a CYA reading of higher than 20 (could be less as tune only goes to 20). Why can’t I get any cya in this pool? Any advice?

 

[Pool Newbie!]

The above post was actually from yesterday. Just realized I didn’t hit post lol.

 

[mknauss]

When was the CYA fully dissolved from the sock?

When you do the CYA test, try this next time.

Once you have your solution ready, back to the sun, etc. Fill the vial to a line, say 80, lower the vial to your waist level and glance for the dot, you see it, add solution to the 70 line, glance, see it, repeat until you no longer see it with a glance. Then use the CYA value one step above the line you read. So if you stopped at 50, use 60 ppm CYA.

The vial is in logarithmic scale. So it is not viable to interpolate between the lines. Just use the whole numbers, such as 50, 40, 30, ....

 

[Pool Newbie!]

The CYA was fully dissolved around 12 noon on Sunday. I checked it around 5:30 yesterday (Monday). I will try that method of checking it today. Thanks for the advice. I really hope I see a noticeable difference in water color soon. My daughter is loosing hope and starting to doubt me and this method.

 

[Steve_in_C]

I helped a neighbor SLAM his pool last year. It took him 3 weeks, but it's related to how well you maintain the FC shock level, amount of algae/ debris, and filtration capacity. A sand filter takes the longest to clear the water. After the water began to significantly improve in my neighbor's SLAM, we added DE to the sand filter per Pool School instructions. This cleared it up a lot faster but required frequent backwashing and replacement of backwashed DE. The SLAM method works. Keep following their advice.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

Seems like everyone I talk to things I’m crazy and never heard of slamming. They say why don’t you just pour a bunch of shock in it? I don’t know the answer. Just following the slam instructions. So can you give me an answer to give them?

 

[Katodude]

Tell you friends that is what you are doing. Remember SLAM stands for Shock Level and Maintain. Powdered Shock is Chlorine with other additives. Right now you don’t want those additives just the pure chlorine.

 

[Steve_in_C]

Using this 73% cal hypo shock product

Amazon.com : Zappit 73% Cal Hypo Pool Shock - Calcium Hypochlorite Super Shock 50lb : Gateway

Amazon.com : Zappit 73% Cal Hypo Pool Shock - Calcium Hypochlorite Super Shock 50lb : Gateway

www.amazon.com

at 1 pound /16,500 gallons spikes your FC by 5.3 according to pool math. Just tell them that you are shocking your pool repeatedly with liquid chlorine instead and achieving the same goal as powdered shock without unwanted stuff. In fact, tell them that you are exceeding what a shock will do because you are maintaining that shock level untl your problem is fixed. They cannot accomplish the same goal with a single shock treatment.

In essence you ARE pouring a bunch of shock in. It's just liquid chlorine shock. And you are doing it in a controlled manner with specific goals.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

Thanks for the info. I never think fast on my feet and I’m so new to this I definitely wouldn’t do well in a debate.
Now I’m armed with answers lol.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

Should I be back washing?

 

[Mr Bruce]

When your pressure gauge reads 25% more than it does right after a backwash. Otherwise, no.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

Pressure gauge hasn’t fluctuated at all. Staying around 14.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

Ok so added more stabilizer to raise to 30 since my reading wasn’t changing from 20- and I guess it all finally hit because this evening it tested at 45. This raised my slam level target to 18. Have I messed everything up with my cya or is it normal to raise shock level target. Please advise and it would be encouraging if someone could point out some progress I’ve made lol. And any idea how long this will take from this point?
FC- 12.5
CC- 1.5
CYA- 45
PH- 7.5
TA- 100
CH- 125

 

[Fast7]

I just went thru entire thread and I noticed OP only added 10 ppm worth of CYA initially when she/he couldn't get any reading.
That's not enough to register even without any amonnia present assuming starting CYA was 0.
That could have been part of the issue why CYA wasn't detectable.

 

[Pool Newbie!]

I just went thru entire thread and I noticed OP only added 10 ppm worth of CYA initially when she/he couldn't get any reading.
That's not enough to register even without any amonnia present assuming starting CYA was 0.
That could have been part of the issue why CYA wasn't detectable.

I added 1 lb 11 oz which was pool calculator recommendation to raise it from 20 to 30. So are you saying that was a mistake