We have a pretty big algae growth situation on our liner. Made the mistake of following the pool store recommendations and spending way too much money before I found this forum.
We just started our SLAM.
CYA 60, PH 7.2, FC-0, chlorine pool- not Salt
Water crystal clear
This is after a half drain and refill and rebalance of the pool due to high CYA. Pool wouldn’t hold chlorine.
Pool math told me that with our FC level, pool size and CYA we should SLAM to 24 FC. We followed the directions on how much chlorine to add. Tested an hour later and we had a FC of 3.4 and a CC of 0.4. Why did the pool math not work? Shouldn’t the FC be closer to 24ppm since we added what it told us too or is it really burning up the chlorine? Or did we test too soon?
Also do I now redo the pool math and add additional chlorine to get the TC up to 24? How often should we be testing and adding chlorine for the SLAM to be successful?
We just started our SLAM.
CYA 60, PH 7.2, FC-0, chlorine pool- not Salt
Water crystal clear
This is after a half drain and refill and rebalance of the pool due to high CYA. Pool wouldn’t hold chlorine.
Pool math told me that with our FC level, pool size and CYA we should SLAM to 24 FC. We followed the directions on how much chlorine to add. Tested an hour later and we had a FC of 3.4 and a CC of 0.4. Why did the pool math not work? Shouldn’t the FC be closer to 24ppm since we added what it told us too or is it really burning up the chlorine? Or did we test too soon?
Also do I now redo the pool math and add additional chlorine to get the TC up to 24? How often should we be testing and adding chlorine for the SLAM to be successful?
