Hi everyone, I wanted to put out a story of my pool troubles, how I solved them, and ask some questions.
A short time ago I got sloppy with my pool maintenance and the FC went to zero with a rainstorm. This resulted in clouding water that was very hard to correct.
I started slamming the pool, got it clear after 3-4 days, at about the 6-day mark I passed the overnight chlorine loss test. Let's just say a week.
At this point it was just trying to get the CC down to <=0.5, this was a major battle (results kept floating between 1 and 1.5). I had faith and just kept SLAMMING the pool.
A week and a half later I was getting frustrated and opened the Taylor Pool & Spa Chemistry book to see what it had to say about CC.
This led me to read the section on "Break Through Chlorination", bottom line their view is if you keep adding chlorine but not enough to break through the CC you are just creating more CC.
Taylor's solution? BREAKPOINT DOSAGE = 10 x COMBINED CHLORINE LEVEL.
I then added 15 FC in liquid chlorine form and tested it in the morning. BAM! CC GONE.
Moral of the story: if you are slamming your pool but keep fighting CC for more then a few days apply a breakpoint dosage of chlorine.
Why doesn’t the TFP Slamming method address this? Am I missing something is the Slamming method missing this? I did a brief search and didn’t see this discussed elsewhere.
It’s not just me or Taylor wouldn’t put it in their pool book.
Thoughts?
Paul
A short time ago I got sloppy with my pool maintenance and the FC went to zero with a rainstorm. This resulted in clouding water that was very hard to correct.
I started slamming the pool, got it clear after 3-4 days, at about the 6-day mark I passed the overnight chlorine loss test. Let's just say a week.
At this point it was just trying to get the CC down to <=0.5, this was a major battle (results kept floating between 1 and 1.5). I had faith and just kept SLAMMING the pool.
A week and a half later I was getting frustrated and opened the Taylor Pool & Spa Chemistry book to see what it had to say about CC.
This led me to read the section on "Break Through Chlorination", bottom line their view is if you keep adding chlorine but not enough to break through the CC you are just creating more CC.
Taylor's solution? BREAKPOINT DOSAGE = 10 x COMBINED CHLORINE LEVEL.
I then added 15 FC in liquid chlorine form and tested it in the morning. BAM! CC GONE.
Moral of the story: if you are slamming your pool but keep fighting CC for more then a few days apply a breakpoint dosage of chlorine.
Why doesn’t the TFP Slamming method address this? Am I missing something is the Slamming method missing this? I did a brief search and didn’t see this discussed elsewhere.
It’s not just me or Taylor wouldn’t put it in their pool book.
Thoughts?
Paul