Hello!
I am draining and refilling some of my water due to having CYA of about 100. I did about a third, since we've had very very heavy rainfall and I've had to pump water out several times in the last few days already. I'm still refilling, and have about 3 inches above the skimmer line to go. I tested the water earlier out of curiosity and since I was extremely chlorine-locked with a green pool my chlorine was at 13ppm! 0 combined chlorine, 7.2 Ph, TA at 70.
My question is, what do I do about such high chlorine? Do I wait until its all filled up and retest? Once chlorine is "locked" is it unusable no matter the CYA concentration? After about 2 hours of refilling my CYA was at 80, and like I said, I've got several more hours to go and my pool is GREEN. But, I want to get rid of my green pool ASAP. If CYA is "diluted", will the chlorine work or is it spent and I just need to wait till it burns off? Im sorry if this seems silly, I'm still trying to figure all this out! Thank you!
I am draining and refilling some of my water due to having CYA of about 100. I did about a third, since we've had very very heavy rainfall and I've had to pump water out several times in the last few days already. I'm still refilling, and have about 3 inches above the skimmer line to go. I tested the water earlier out of curiosity and since I was extremely chlorine-locked with a green pool my chlorine was at 13ppm! 0 combined chlorine, 7.2 Ph, TA at 70.
My question is, what do I do about such high chlorine? Do I wait until its all filled up and retest? Once chlorine is "locked" is it unusable no matter the CYA concentration? After about 2 hours of refilling my CYA was at 80, and like I said, I've got several more hours to go and my pool is GREEN. But, I want to get rid of my green pool ASAP. If CYA is "diluted", will the chlorine work or is it spent and I just need to wait till it burns off? Im sorry if this seems silly, I'm still trying to figure all this out! Thank you!