My wife and I purchased a new home about 100 miles from where we are that is out in the country. About two hours drive and 100 miles from our current home. It came with a 2 year old Doughboy above ground pool. 16'X32' 15,600gal. It has a 225 pound sand filter with a 3/4 hp pump.This was about 3 months ago at the end of April. We are only able to be at the new home about every 10 days or so.
We are in the process of moving into the new home but that will not be completed for another 6 weeks or so. Ideally using a service company would be best until we can be there full time. But non exist within 30 miles of our new home.
I have enlisted the help of a relative to help me with the task of keeping chlorine levels up in the pool, but In think they are more interested is swimming in the pool instead of adding chemicals. In 3 months I have experienced 2 algae blooms so far. When we purchased the home the pools previous owner had been using Bromine. From the beginning I could not get a chlorine reading with my Taylor K2005-c kit. From my research online I needed to completely drain the pool to switch over to chlorine. That done I followed the guide lines to balance the water chemistry. 26 lbs of calcium(now only to find out that was a waste of money in a vinyl pool) 4 gal of muriatic acid. I started over with placing five 3" triclor tabs in the floater each week and running the pump 24/7. But then a few rainy days set in the middle of July and the Gfi kicked the circuit breaker feeding power to my filter & pump.
Bang Algae bloom when I came back down. I used 6lbs of supershock to kill the bloom but the water was murky. I purchased a poly-something clarifier from the large W store . It has cleared up about 1/2 of what was in the water along with vacuuming and running the filter. I have used a total of 1/2 a gallon of the clarifier during 3 treatments. My water is still murky looking but I can see the robo vac now running 3'4'' below the surface.
After testing I realized my CYA levels were starting to climb. Now at 32ppm I have switched from Tricolor to calcium/hypocrite 3"tab in my floater. I am also using 1 lb of HTH super shock per week. I have since moved the tabs to my skimmer basket because they were not dissolving in the floater. And chanced the runtime to 14hrs per day from 24/7.
I am sorry for such a long history but now for the nuts and bolts. Since I can only be at the pool every 7-10 days how can I ensure I don't get another bloom before I get completely moved down there in 6 weeks. Once there full time I can start using the 6% bleach. If I cannot keep my chlorine levels up at a shock dose for 3 days is there any chance of getting the water cleared up before then? Thanks Doug