Slam day 6- slow moving

[Djuke1210]

NOOOOO. 40 is great from your own testing. PoolStore testing is unreliable.

I agree but 3 weeks in something seems to be off.

 

[Djuke1210]

Any other recommendations? Totally frustrated here.

 

[PoolStored]

How often are you testing and replacing FC?
You might deep clean the filter.

Deep Cleaning a Sand Filter

This post will walk you through the anatomy of a sand filter, and then provide a video at the end for how to deep clean your sand filter. The filter used in the photos and videos is a Hayward S180T top mount sand filter. The images are of a similar filter. Obviously not all filters are...

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[Djuke1210]

How often are you testing and replacing FC?
You might deep clean the filter.

Deep Cleaning a Sand Filter

This post will walk you through the anatomy of a sand filter, and then provide a video at the end for how to deep clean your sand filter. The filter used in the photos and videos is a Hayward S180T top mount sand filter. The images are of a similar filter. Obviously not all filters are...

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Every 2 hours but it’s barely dropping below 1 ppm in 24 hours. The whole system is 3 years old.

 

[reylas]

I am watching intently. I am on week 4 of a slam and not seeing any improvement as well. 2 gals of chlorine a day is getting expensive.

 

[Djuke1210]

I am watching intently. I am on week 4 of a slam and not seeing any improvement as well. 2 gals of chlorine a day is getting expensive.

Oh man, 4 weeks. It’s getting old!

 

[Djuke1210]

Thoughts on phosphate remover if phosphates are high?

 

[proavia]

Thoughts on phosphate remover if phosphates are high?

Follow the SLAM Process to the letter.

Take another dose or two of POP (Pool Owner patience) .

 

[PoolStored]

Phosphate removers are not going to help.

Can you go into pool math, gear in the upper right, scroll to the bottom and enable sharing with TFP so we can see your logs...

 

[Djuke1210]

Phosphate removers are not going to help.

Can you go into pool math, gear in the upper right, scroll to the bottom and enable sharing with TFP so we can see your logs...

I don’t log them in the system. But yesterdays numbers were
AK 50
PH was lowered to 7.2 upon starting slam
Cya 40
FC keeping at 16
CC .5
Calcium 70

 

[PoolStored]

How many OCLTs have your performed where you passed.

How often are you checking FC and what is the typical loss (sorry, don't want to go back through 5 pages to find it)

 

[Djuke1210]

So we made it to blue after 2+ full weeks. Water is still cloudy. I’ve been keeping up with slam levels. This coming Monday be 3 week of slam. Should it really still be taking this long to get to totally clear?

 

[PoolStored]

How many OCLTs have your performed where you passed.

 

[Djuke1210]

I haven’t been losing more than 1ppm of chlorine for a few weeks overnight.

 

[PoolStored]

This is one of the few times we might recommend a clarifier. HOWEVER, you should use a high quality one. We only recommend Sea klear Chitosan clarifier…might be expensive, but will not cause issues other clarifiers will….

 

[Djuke1210]

This is one of the few times we might recommend a clarifier. HOWEVER, you should use a high quality one. We only recommend Sea klear Chitosan clarifier…might be expensive, but will not cause issues other clarifiers will….

After putting in the pool, what are the rest of the instructions? I’ve never used clarifier.

 

[PoolStored]

Follow the instructions on the bottle. Make sure you get Sea Klear Chitosan. It is not for continual usage...don't get in the habit.