Slightly Cloudy Pool, Party Tomorrow

[kllentini]

Within the last 2 weeks I stopped using pucks and just have been adding liquid chlorine daily. I’ve felt like I’ve been battling low pH all year and so I finally heeded advice here to stop using the pucks. My pool looked slightly cloudy last night so I did an Overnight Loss Test and lost 2.0 from 8.0 to 6.0. My CYA is 80.

The pool again looks slightly cloudy this morning. I didn’t know if it’s the light but my wife looked at it and agreed it looks slightly cloudy in the deep end. I realize I should SLAM but I’m reluctant to start that today as we’re having a family birthday party here tomorrow because we have the pool. So any short term suggestions on shocking it today/tonight before going thru the SLAM process starting on Monday? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Msch99]

An expert will chime in soon I imagine.
I would slam now. You can safely swim with FC at slam level for your cya level.

The concern is cloudiness not FC level. Hit it hard now, safer for swimmers.

 

[gonfishin]

I would go to SLAM level for today. Leave it alone until after the party tomorrow and bring it back to SLAM level after the party.

 

[Chrissykr]

If it were me...I would do as they say hit it hard today with chlorine but, I would also be loading up on some DE or DE alternative and keep that pump going. Brush the heck out of it as well.

 

[evelyneller]

I would go to SLAM level for today. Leave it alone until after the party tomorrow and bring it back to SLAM level after the party.

What is SLAM?

 

[Msch99]

Slam
Check out pools school and ABC's of water chemistry. Well worth the read.

 

[Pool_Medic]

You can use some mono per sulphate too, it’s non chlorine shock, you would only have to wait two hours. Shock levels (40% of cya reading, while swimmable will be noticed by your friends/family)