It's BAAACK!!!

[aylad]

It may take a day or two, but the chlorine will come down on its own. The up side is that you now have a well-shocked pool!

Janet

[Sue225]

Ph is higher than 8
CC 0
fc 26 after sun was on it for a couple hours.
with cya of 80 i will leeft pool drift down to 20ppm and hold it there for 24 more hours. What do you think?
I am vacuuming to waste, by passing filter
will keep you posted about algae

[aylad]

The pH may be reading falsely high because your chlorine level is high, so I wouldn't adjust it until you get the chlorine down closer to normal levels. Let the chlorine drift down to 20 ppm, and leave it there until the pool clears, you're not losing any chlorine overnight, and your CC stays at 0. How's the water looking?

Janet

[Sue225]

water looks great! much clearer, that murky color is gone! pool was holding at 20 tonight! i have a question, when i check for cc it is colorless but, today i got side tracked for a few minutes and when i looked at the test cell it was slightly pink added 1 drop went clear, waited a few more minites and it was slightly pink again added another drop was clear. I did this about 5 times then i just quit. is this normal? do i have cc? Shoud you always let it sit or not? Thanks in advance.

[aylad]

If you let it sit, it will always start to tinge pink--ignore it. If you didn't have any pink when you added the 5 drops, then you don't have any CC.

If the water is holding chlorine overnight, it's clear, and you have no CC, then you can let it start drifting back down to normal--but never less than 5 ppm!! Once it gets below 10 ppm, go ahead and recheck your pH. If it's still high, then you can adjust it at that point.

Janet

[Sue225]

fc was 10 this evening, cc was 0 and ph 7.5. Added 2 qts of 6%. Can't get out there to check chlorine levels because it is storming. I did add 24 oz of poly... because we are having company and temps will be in 90's. Wanted to make sure the algae was gone!!
We are still vacuuming to waste. Much less brown areas on bottom of pool. Seems like to chlorine dropped quite a bit after I added poly..algecide. Is this normal?

Thanks

[Watermom]

Yes. Polyquat will cause the cl to drop. So, you'll have to add more bleach to take the cl levels back up.