Need help making pool "swimmable" please

[blessedbeingmom]

Hello, does anyone know why I made 2 different posts to this thread earlier this evening but only one of them showed up? I had a question in the other one regarding whether we should add chlorine tonight or not with the readings I posted in post 5. I can't remember what else I wrote in that post. LOL!

[sturev]

I'm not sure what's going on with the posts, but it looks like you can add some more bleach. You want to keep it at about 15 ppm, so if you were at 12 ppm earlier, I'd probably test and re-dose up to 15.

[Watermom]

Tricia,
New subscribers have to have their posts looked at by Ben or one of the moderators before they appear on the forum. So, if you post at a time when none of the mods are online, it may be a bit before it shows up. I can't remember right off hand right now how many posts have to be looked at before you are able to just post right to the forum without it having to be modded in. So, if you post and it doesn't appear right away, sit tight. It won't take too long since most of the time at least one of the 5 of us is here!

[blessedbeingmom]

Great! Thank you!

Today was mostly cloudy, overcast & rainy. I just tested again with the dilution method with the OTO drops and got a similar reading as before (somewhere around 12 ppm FC). However, we decided to check our filter and it was pretty gross. We cleaned it really well with the jet spray on our hose and hopefully that will help clear the pool out better. Also, I highly recommend against using old pool noodles in your pool. We found a bunch of purple fuzz in the filter. Eek!

Just for comparison, I tested using a strip and it told me my chlorine level was low (about 1 ppm). However, DH says it definitely has that chloriney pool smell. I'm thinking maybe we won't add any more tonight and will see how it looks in the morning after a night of running with a clean filter.

Thanks again!

[Watermom]

That "chloriney" smell is not chlorine but chloramines (CC). Sounds strange, but whenever you smell that it doesn't mean you have too much chlorine in there but need more. Sounds weird, I know. I'd go ahead and add enough bleach tonight to get back to shock level. (Especially since it rained. Rainy days can add debris and organic matter to the pool.) The more consistently you keep it at shock level, the faster it will get cleaned up.

I agree about the old pool noodles. I find the fuzz in my pool, too.

[blessedbeingmom]

Okay, thanks, I will have DH add more chlorine tonight when he gets home from church. I think we may need to add about 1/2 gallon to get to shock level.

[Watermom]

FYI -- In your pool, each quart of 6% bleach will raise your cl by about 3.3ppm.