Thank you pool doc!! Your the best.....

[Watermom]

I am testing my levels of P.O.P....LOL

This year I am staying very consistent.

Those are the two most important ingredients -- POP and consistency! Keep at it.

[Lawrosa]

So I am still adding cl. Dropped to 10 in sun today. That was a 5 ppm drop. Did this twice today. once in the afternoon and tonight. I have not let it drop below 10ppm so far.

Raised it to 15 again this pm for overnight. I checked the CC and it was only 1 ppm. Is this normal if you're fighting something? Seems low for the pool in the fact that its still cloudy.

OK any suggestions I am all ears........ I will continue to do what I am doing. Out to get more bleach tomorrow. I believe I been through 18 gallons so far. $1.59 a gallon.

Mike NJ

[aylad]

Depending on your CYA level, a 5 ppm drop is not unreasonable for a sunny day. That's why you measure just the chlorine lost at night when you're trying to see if you're still battling something in the water. Also, it is not unusual for the CC to only be 1 ppm--CC is removed by chlorine, but also by sunlight, which is also why we recommend you test at night and then early in the morning to see what's actually happening in your pool. Hang in there!!

Janet

[Lawrosa]

I don't think I have any CYA in the pool. According to this link this is my issue. All the cya got eaten up. http://www.poolsolutions.com/gd/spri...-problems.html Anyway been 5 days today with a cloudy pool...Uggg.

Mike NJ

[aylad]

If your CYA is zero, then a 5 ppm loss of chlorine during the day is not bad. All you can do is keep shocking until you know for sure that you've overcome whatever is creating the demand, and then filter the dead stuff out. Is your cartridge filter catching anything obvious?

Janet

[CarlD]

Hi Lawrosa. Big Dave and I both live in NJ so we face the same problems you do. We have had an unusually warm winter and mild spring so spring algae starts early. A few years ago when we were having som brutal winters the ice in my pool would be over a foot thick! Not this year! In those years it would be barely melted when I would start my opening in April and I would only have debris, no algae. Yesterday I open to a green pool, though not as green as yours. I shock my pool twice at the end of the season, first to get it really clean, then I add a quart of polyquat which drives the FC down, then 48 hours later shock it u p again and close.

If your pool is now blue and cloudy, it is mostly dead algae and other junk, not stuf you have to kill...but keep maintaining your FC. Something is not filtering right. Try adding a skimmer sock to your skimmer. It filters amazing amounts of junk out. Skimmer Sock is a brand but there are others.

If you are using the sand filter for the gross cleanup, you can try the DE trick to allow the sand to filter better. A 10# box lasts me years. If you are usung a cart it should be able to handle the quantity of stuff suspended in your water, only requiring cleaning when it is clear.

[Lawrosa]

From pm to am I went from 15ppm to 12.5 ppm. Still cloudy water. Filtering with cart on low 24/7 still. Pressure not rising any. Filter not catching anything. Is there anything else I should try or test?

Mike NJ

[BigDave]

How's your return flow? How's your filter? Is the cartridge OK? Maybe your pressure guage is busted? Just gusses.