Just set up a brand new 3500g above ground pool. Put water in a coupe days ago and yesterday starting adding chemicals.
My house water is filtered and softened so I'm pretty much starting at ground zero.
Last night I added Chlorbrite from Leslie's Pool Supply. (It's such a small pool, it was easy for me to grab there instead of making a separate trip to get bleach. Cost difference doesn't matter.)
I didn't want to over dose so I did half the recommended dose last night and this morning had about half the recommended chlorine level. On my Taylor chlorine test kit (which granted, is over a year old), the powder immediately turned the water pink and I proceeded from there. So after testing, I added the second half of the dose. Now about 5 hours later, with filter running of course, I have zero chlorine. The powder will not turn the water pink. I even tried a different test kit, thinking maybe the powder was too old (even though it worked this morning).
The only other thing I did this morning after testing the chlorine and adding more was to add the calcium to bring up the water hardess from zero... again only doing half the needed dose. Actually, less than half.
Woud that affect it?
Any idea other idea what's going on? I know sun kills off the chlorine but in just a few hours???
TIA!
My house water is filtered and softened so I'm pretty much starting at ground zero.
Last night I added Chlorbrite from Leslie's Pool Supply. (It's such a small pool, it was easy for me to grab there instead of making a separate trip to get bleach. Cost difference doesn't matter.)
I didn't want to over dose so I did half the recommended dose last night and this morning had about half the recommended chlorine level. On my Taylor chlorine test kit (which granted, is over a year old), the powder immediately turned the water pink and I proceeded from there. So after testing, I added the second half of the dose. Now about 5 hours later, with filter running of course, I have zero chlorine. The powder will not turn the water pink. I even tried a different test kit, thinking maybe the powder was too old (even though it worked this morning).
The only other thing I did this morning after testing the chlorine and adding more was to add the calcium to bring up the water hardess from zero... again only doing half the needed dose. Actually, less than half.
Woud that affect it?
Any idea other idea what's going on? I know sun kills off the chlorine but in just a few hours???
TIA!