What a weekend….
After 3 years of crystal clear water, I opened the pool up this past Saturday to enjoy a dip in the 90+ heat and the water was cloudy and I couldn’t see the bottom the pool.
After 2 days of running around thinking the world is going to end and dumping 32 bottles of bleach and massaging 10 lbs of CYA in the pool, I opened it up this morning and it’s still cloudy but not as bad as it was a couple days ago.
FC and CC were 7 and 1.0 last night before adding 6 gallons of bleach and my current readings this morning were:
FC – 10.5
CC – 1.0
CYA – 70
PH – 7.4
TA – 410
CH – 300
I have my SWG set to 50% and I'm hesitant to turn this off and have a bigger problem, even though it recommends it during the SLAM process.
I’ll continue to vacuum, backwash, add fill water, and add bleach along the way, but it just seems crazy to think about all the bleach I’ve added over the last couple days
So….
Am I doing this right?
I’m thinking about adding some DE to my filter to help it out since maybe the filter is not doing an effective enough job. Is that a good idea?
Should I vacuum to waste instead of going through filter?
Is there anything else I should be doing?
Thanks in advance
After 3 years of crystal clear water, I opened the pool up this past Saturday to enjoy a dip in the 90+ heat and the water was cloudy and I couldn’t see the bottom the pool.
After 2 days of running around thinking the world is going to end and dumping 32 bottles of bleach and massaging 10 lbs of CYA in the pool, I opened it up this morning and it’s still cloudy but not as bad as it was a couple days ago.
FC and CC were 7 and 1.0 last night before adding 6 gallons of bleach and my current readings this morning were:
FC – 10.5
CC – 1.0
CYA – 70
PH – 7.4
TA – 410
CH – 300
I have my SWG set to 50% and I'm hesitant to turn this off and have a bigger problem, even though it recommends it during the SLAM process.
I’ll continue to vacuum, backwash, add fill water, and add bleach along the way, but it just seems crazy to think about all the bleach I’ve added over the last couple days
So….
Am I doing this right?
I’m thinking about adding some DE to my filter to help it out since maybe the filter is not doing an effective enough job. Is that a good idea?
Should I vacuum to waste instead of going through filter?
Is there anything else I should be doing?
Thanks in advance