Filtration / Run Time...

[MountainStone]

... I usually run mine in one stretch. It's on a timer from about 11am to about 8pm once the season gets going.

During the summer, I usually run the pump about 8 hours mostly on low speed but I target the heat of the day and into dusk so chlorine levels stay relatively constant during the day and through the night even though the pump does not run at night. However, whenever there is night time swimming, I will manually turn on the pump until everyone is out of the pool.

I've read here that one should add liquid chlorine at night, when the sunshine will not impact available FC. How long should one run the pump to circulate the newly-added liquid chlorine? Do you factor that run time into your daily run time? (sorry if the question seems very basic; I'm new here...)

[PoolDoc]

Actually, we need a how and when to run page . . . and I hadn't realized that before. There are too many issues, and several have come up today.

For your specific question, the pump should probably run 1/2 hour after adding any chemicals, and probably longer if you added any sort of granular materials to the pool.