Hi guys,
I have been a member for a few years and have been maintaining my pool for over 10 years with no problems until now.
Long story short, left for a summer vacation to Canada and my wife broke her arm (humerus) while mountain biking. A two week vacation turned into 4 weeks away from home and we returned to a VERY green pool. Never seen it like that ever. To top it off, given that my wife had to have surgery I just could not mess with the pool for another couple of weeks.
Anyways, once I had some time and started looking into it, I went for my go to which is to nuke it with Clorox hard. I got it to where it was blueish but very murky still, so I drained about 6k gallons (23k gallon pool) and refilled it. I then kit it hard again with Clorox - which the pool eats it like candy- and here is where I am, a blue pool but I cannot see the bottom.
Been running the pump 24hrs for the last three days and changing the filter daily for a clean one.
I used two of those baggies of shock that I picked up at the supermarket out of desperation even though I don't really like them.
My numbers as of today using my TF-100:
CYA = 45
FC = 3.5 ppm (I put in 15 gallons of Clorox in the last two days, 13 day one and 2 day two)
CC= 3 ppm
TC = 6.5 ppm
TA = 40
CH = 210
I am going to pick up another 15 gallons of Clorox tomorrow (8.25%) and dump them all in.
The 3ppm of CC indicates that I still have something feeding on my chlorine, correct?
Currently set my salt cell to boost so that it works at 100% for 24hrs
Is there anything stronger than chlorine that I can use? This was an expensive process with the gallon at around $6 plus all the water and electricity of the pump.
Here is a picture of what the pool/spa looked like yesterday as I was refilling, you cannot see the two drains at the bottom on a 5.5' deep pool.
Any help/input is appreciated!
I have been a member for a few years and have been maintaining my pool for over 10 years with no problems until now.
Long story short, left for a summer vacation to Canada and my wife broke her arm (humerus) while mountain biking. A two week vacation turned into 4 weeks away from home and we returned to a VERY green pool. Never seen it like that ever. To top it off, given that my wife had to have surgery I just could not mess with the pool for another couple of weeks.
Anyways, once I had some time and started looking into it, I went for my go to which is to nuke it with Clorox hard. I got it to where it was blueish but very murky still, so I drained about 6k gallons (23k gallon pool) and refilled it. I then kit it hard again with Clorox - which the pool eats it like candy- and here is where I am, a blue pool but I cannot see the bottom.
Been running the pump 24hrs for the last three days and changing the filter daily for a clean one.
I used two of those baggies of shock that I picked up at the supermarket out of desperation even though I don't really like them.
My numbers as of today using my TF-100:
CYA = 45
FC = 3.5 ppm (I put in 15 gallons of Clorox in the last two days, 13 day one and 2 day two)
CC= 3 ppm
TC = 6.5 ppm
TA = 40
CH = 210
I am going to pick up another 15 gallons of Clorox tomorrow (8.25%) and dump them all in.
The 3ppm of CC indicates that I still have something feeding on my chlorine, correct?
Currently set my salt cell to boost so that it works at 100% for 24hrs
Is there anything stronger than chlorine that I can use? This was an expensive process with the gallon at around $6 plus all the water and electricity of the pump.
Here is a picture of what the pool/spa looked like yesterday as I was refilling, you cannot see the two drains at the bottom on a 5.5' deep pool.
Any help/input is appreciated!
