Spring opening, and I got carried away with chemicals

[peterfitton]

I opened my pool this past weekend and I got a bit bold with my chemicals. Before any testing I dumped 4 gallons of unmarked chlorine I got from a pool maintenance guy, and 4 gallons of hardware store muriatic acid. I also added about 10lbs of stabilizer.
Now that I’m getting around to testing I think I overdid it. Here are my current numbers:
cpH- 6.8
FC- 32.5
Cc- 4
Ch- 375
Ta- hard to tell, either 297 or over 1320 (I think my test was inaccurate due to the higher chlorine.
CYA- 82.
Am I in trouble? Normally I have a high pH, now it’s low. Should I change some water, or just aerate?

Thanks for any suggestions.
Peter

 

[ajw22]

Aerate to raise your pH.

Where are those test results from?

What test kit was used?

 

[mknauss]

If you have a drop based TA test, you need to see if you have any TA. If not, you need to add baking soda ASAP. Circulating this water through your heater could be slowly destroying it.

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[peterfitton]

If you have a drop based TA test, you need to see if you have any TA. If not, you need to add baking soda ASAP. Circulating this water through your heater could be slowly destroying it.

Total Alkalinity

A drop-based test used to measure the alkalinity in water. Alkalinity helps serve as a … Read more…

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[peterfitton]

Thank you for the feedback. I did the drop test again for TA twice and it appears that i got 130 and 200 accordingly. I’m using the tf-100 kit.

 

[mknauss]

What is the normal TA for this pool water?

 

[peterfitton]

My TA is usually around 190.

 

[mknauss]

OK -- you may have lucked out. But you should never add that much chemical, especially without testing.