oscarlet
07-23-2012, 06:45 PM
We have an 8000 gall (or so) vinyl pool. We are going on vacation for three weeks. We live in southern California and temp is low 80s to high 80s this time of year usually.
pH is always at 7.5, never done anything to it, never seems to change.
Currently we have a cheap intex salt cell. It looses time and drives our neighbour mad if it does because it beeps incessantly if it gets out of sync so we have decided it is better to turn it off while we are away. We are also going to turn the solar off to reduce the water temp.
We have a tree that drops and sheds leaves in the pool, but previous attempts to fix this have not been successful. We have had mustard algae this summer but have not seen it since shocking heavily and adding polyquat.
For the first 5 days we are gone the pool gets to entertain itself and throw parties with algae. After that a local kid is going to do some basic pool care. It is new to him so our plan is to have him test Cl levels and add bleach (shock if necessary, quite possible after 5 days), skim and empty the skimmer basket also brush if he sees algae or feels slime. We have told him to keep it above 3 at all times, preferably around 5 so long as there is no evidence of algae or crazy disappearing Cl.
Our CYA levels are somewhere between 30 and 40. I'm thinking I should shock the pool (how high should I go?) the morning we leave and stick some pucks in a floaty.
Does that sound good enough? I'm not expecting perfect, so long as it isn't a swamp full of mosquitos I figure I'll just fight with it after the wild party.
pH is always at 7.5, never done anything to it, never seems to change.
Currently we have a cheap intex salt cell. It looses time and drives our neighbour mad if it does because it beeps incessantly if it gets out of sync so we have decided it is better to turn it off while we are away. We are also going to turn the solar off to reduce the water temp.
We have a tree that drops and sheds leaves in the pool, but previous attempts to fix this have not been successful. We have had mustard algae this summer but have not seen it since shocking heavily and adding polyquat.
For the first 5 days we are gone the pool gets to entertain itself and throw parties with algae. After that a local kid is going to do some basic pool care. It is new to him so our plan is to have him test Cl levels and add bleach (shock if necessary, quite possible after 5 days), skim and empty the skimmer basket also brush if he sees algae or feels slime. We have told him to keep it above 3 at all times, preferably around 5 so long as there is no evidence of algae or crazy disappearing Cl.
Our CYA levels are somewhere between 30 and 40. I'm thinking I should shock the pool (how high should I go?) the morning we leave and stick some pucks in a floaty.
Does that sound good enough? I'm not expecting perfect, so long as it isn't a swamp full of mosquitos I figure I'll just fight with it after the wild party.