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[aylad]

How's the pool looking?

Janet

[connier13]

Very cloudy....it has been 3 weeks now and it is just a hazy grey color. Our polaris was in the shop 2 weeks ago, so, I took a water sample to have it tested. Their test showed everything was ok except it was scaling. I have just been keeping the chlorine level high and keeping the other numbers in range. We have two sets of filters, so, we have changed those as well. I didn't realize it could take this long.

[Watermom]

It would probably be helpful if you could post a current set of water testing numbers for us to look at.

[connier13]

.20 FC
.10 CC
7.6 PH
90 TA
380 CH
60 CYA

Pool is still a grey color...can see bottom to about 4 feet, but cloudy

[aylad]

Your chlorine is WAY too low, especially for your climate. I suspect that it hasn't cleared up because you either didn't kill the algae all the way, or that your chlorine level has been too low for too long and let it get started again. Either way, you're going to need to take the chlorine back up to shock levels ( 20 ppm for a CYA of 60) and hold it there until the pool clears and you are not losing more than 1 ppm of chlorine when measuring at night after the sun is down and again in the morning before the sun hits the pool. Only after you are not losing any more chlorine can you let the chlorine start coming back down again. This may take chlorine additions up to 3-4 times daily, or however often you are able, to keep it above 20 ppm, but that's the only thing that iwll kill the algae off and allow your pool to clear.

Janet

[connier13]

I have kept it high until 3 days ago. we have gotten a lot of rain the past two days.

[Watermom]

When there is a lot of rain, that is a common time for algae to start for two reasons. 1. A lot of debris may fall or be blown into the pool
2. When it rains, many pool owners don't check their chlorine and as a result the cl drops too low and gives algae a chance to start.