This community is great! And I hope to be able to help others as I learn more! So I do have some experience with pools was the manager of a water park for years and a CPO. However I have never had this issue with ammonia before (water park drain every year!). I started a slam yesterday evening after a sand and lateral replacement.
After reading a lot of post on here and the ABCs of pool chemistry I figured out I had ammonia. My FC would not stay above 0 and I have about 10 of CYA and it would not raise. Plus my CC kept climbing.
Last night I started the slam and have continued all day. I have put in 20 gallons of 12.5% adding every couple of hours. My last reading 2 hrs after adding more was
FC 3.0
CC 4.0
CYA ~10
PH 6.8
Ch 600 (hard to lower because my tap water has 450)
TA 110
My question is do I just keep going with slam? Will it work to remove ammonia if I just stay consistent? Do I need to drain and fill?
DETAILS
vinyl liner chlorine pool
Sand filter
Auto cover
Inground paramount cleaning system
Gas heater
16K gallons
Taylor2006K test
After reading a lot of post on here and the ABCs of pool chemistry I figured out I had ammonia. My FC would not stay above 0 and I have about 10 of CYA and it would not raise. Plus my CC kept climbing.
Last night I started the slam and have continued all day. I have put in 20 gallons of 12.5% adding every couple of hours. My last reading 2 hrs after adding more was
FC 3.0
CC 4.0
CYA ~10
PH 6.8
Ch 600 (hard to lower because my tap water has 450)
TA 110
My question is do I just keep going with slam? Will it work to remove ammonia if I just stay consistent? Do I need to drain and fill?
DETAILS
vinyl liner chlorine pool
Sand filter
Auto cover
Inground paramount cleaning system
Gas heater
16K gallons
Taylor2006K test