Help water is green ?

[sierrasmom]

I need to know what to do pool store said to use 8 bags of shock and 6 the next day and 4 the next day ...I cant get this water clear i am so upset with this pool this year ...please someone help me ..the pool is above ground 27 round ..i need to get it clear cant see the bottom ..thanks

[KurtV]

SM, You really need to post your water test results for anyone here to be able to help you. The results they'll need are free chlorine (FC), combined chlorine (CC), pH (pH), total alkalinity (TA), calcium hardness (CH), and cyanuric acid (CYA aka stabilizer).

Do you have a drops type test kit? If not, did the pool store test your water before selling you the "shock"?

[Sherra]

First, test your water and post your numbers for these tests to the "gurus" here can give you more detailed advice:

Combined Chlorine
Free Chlorine
Total Chlorine
pH
Alkalinity
Calcium Hardness
CYA (cyanuric acid/stabilizer/conditioner)

Your chlorine level needs to be keept at a minimum level according to Ben's Best Guess Chart (depends on the amount of CYA you've got in your pool) until the water clears up. What the pool store told you might be overkill.

27' above ground round? How deep?

[sierrasmom]

Only have a kit that test chlorine ,bromine and ph will this work ..No they did not test it i just told them what it still loked like

[KurtV]

Test the chlorine and pH with your test kit and post those numbers to start. Also post what type of test kit you're using (strips or drops based).

You need to get a drops based test kit as soon as you can. Alternatively, you can take a water sample to a pool store and have them test it for you but the quality of pool store employees and test methodologies is highly variable.

[sierrasmom]

Ok I have blue water but very cloudy ..here are my readings cl is 5.0 and and ph is 8.2 and the pool is very cloudy put lots of shock.also have a jacuzzi sand filter and it is 27 above ground pool .thanks for any advice that you can give me ...

[Sherra]

Do you use chlorine or bromine to sanitize your pool? You shouldn't have both a chlorine AND bromine reading. When you say you "put lots of shock", exactly what did you add and how much? You've said it's a 27' above ground, but how deep is it?