eric

[CarlD]

At least till you calm down enough not to strangle him!
LOL!
(I have a teenage son...)

Carl

[Watermom]

When was the last time you either added CYA or used a form of stabilized chlorine (dichlor or trichlor)?

[ericorlisa]

i have not used any stabilizer in the pool other than what was in the shock and chlorine tablets. by the way we just ran out of the tablets and have only one pack of shock left. we are anxious to start the bbb program but are not sure how to do it correctly. we have our pool test kit now also.

[ericorlisa]

i checked our pool this morning here are the readings: FC 2.5ppm CC 0 PH 7.6-7.8 TA 100ppm & CYA less than 30ppm(was not sure if the black dot was suppose to be not visible at all- water was somewhat cloudy at best). what do i need to do now? thanks for all your help.

[Watermom]

Since your CYA is still pretty low and since you still have one pack of shock left, I'd go ahead and use it but maybe not the whole bag at once since your water is clear and you don't really need to shock. Add enough of it to raise your cl level up to about 6 or 7. Then, in the next couple of days, use the rest of it as your source of chlorine. When it is gone, just switch to using bleach. That last pack of shock will add some additional CYA. About a week after you finish using that bag of shock, retest your CYA and report it here.

Unless I missed it when I scanned back through your thread, I think your pool is clear. Your TA is fine, pH is fine, you have no CC. What do you need to do now? Go swimming!!

[madwil]

somewhat cloudy is good- means you have some CYA, just not enough to read at 30 yet. The black dot will completely disappear, if you have enough CYA to make that happen.
Assuming your pool water is clear (the grass clippings will come out in the skimmer, or make the son do it by hand; my son used his teeth the 3rd time he did it! lol)
I would use a few more bags of the dichlor to maintain your FC 3-5, until your CYA reaches 30-40; then use straight bleach.
test chlorine and pH daily...
Since you are out of pucks, I wouldn't get anymore; and watch your pH; the trichlor would have pushed the pH down, it may start to rise on you now.
Use muriatic acid to lower (or pH down...), keep it 7.2-7.8; use the borax to increase it if it goes low.

[ericorlisa]

hi to everyone who has helped us. we have used the last half bag of our shock and we are now on 6% bleach from walmart. here are my readings today FC 4ppm PH 7.6 CYA i'm guessing about 20-25ppm it was more cloudy than my last posted reading but i can still see the black dot on the bottom even past 30ppm and TA 100ppm. our pool is 24ft by 48" or 52" not real sure about the depth since we bought this pool second hand. what do we need to do now? should we add some stabilzer and borax or baking soda?

[Watermom]

You don't need any Borax or baking soda as your pH and alk are fine. I wouldn't add any more or test for CYA again for at least 4 or 5 days to save your reagent. And, that way you'll have given that last bit of dichlor time to have totally dissolved into your water so you should get an accurate reading. How does your water look? Is it all clear? Did you get your test kit yet?

[ericorlisa]

how long should we run our pump? we have been running it during the day and turning it off at night. sometimes we run it all night. we have use up 3.75 lbs. of 1" chlorine tablets-99% trichloro-s-triazinetrione and 5-1 lb bags of shock-58.2% sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione .

the water is crystal clear and we got our test kit and have used it three times.

[Watermom]

Do you have a CC reading that you can report in addition to your FC reading? How recent is that FC reading? Did you add chlorine after you got that reading?

Typically most people run their pumps around 8-10 hours per day. You can split it into two 4-5hr cycles if you want or just all at once. I usually just run my pump from about noon until about 8pm or so.