Halfdones's pool

[Halfdone]

Well I got up before sunrise and the level had dropped about 3.5-4ppm. Also as mentioned earlier my CYA level has dropped for some reason. I will be getting my CYA to try and get that leveled up to around 40-50.

I don't know why the bleach is getting used up at night with no sunlight. The pool is clean except for the cloudy water.

[aylad]

If you're losing chlorine overnight with no sunlight, then you have something in the pool that's consuming it, which is also probalby why your water is cloudy. YOu need to keep the chlorine up to shock level, and hold it there until the chlorine consumption overnight stops, running the filter 24/7 and cleaning it as the pressure indicates.
Janet

[Halfdone]

Thank you,

It seems the water is very slowly starting to clear. I have vacuumed it several times to make sure there is nothing on the bottom. I added another dose of CYA to try and bring the level to about 50ppm this time I added it to the filter since the sock method didn't seam to work for me. I haven't been having to backwash the filter hardly at all, I wonder if it is really doing anything. I will continue with the high shock levels as suggested. At this point I am wondering if we will get to use the pool at all this year, which would be a shame if we didn't due to all the cost we have put in in the form of equipment and chemicals.

I'll adjust again tonight and check in the morning to see how much I'm losing overnight.

My numbers this morning are;
FC 8.5 added about 243oz bleach to get back to 15
PH 7.4
CC .5
TA 150
CH 70
CYA didn't check, out of test agent

[aylad]

Keep it up, I know it seems discouraging, but if you stay the course, it will clear. The more consistent you can be about keeping the chlorine level up, the faster it will happen. Have you tried putting a handful of DE into the skimmer to see if it blows through your returns and back out to the pool? That would give you an indication of whether your filter is working correctly or not.

Janet