Hello everyone. I moved into my place last September and and had someone come out to close our pool in October.
It is a 29,000 gallon, vinyl lined pool. It has a Purex Triton Tagelus sand filter, model #TA-60/60D. The pump is a Hayward super pump, model #C48K2N143.
When it was closed the water was clear. We had someone from our local pool store come out to open it on April 30th. When we did, the water was very green.
We swept all the debris to waste, and they added a
- 32oz bottle of algaecide
- 2lbs of BioGuard Maintain Burnout granular chlorine shock.
I was told to keep the pool clean and add a couple 1lb bags of shock each evening. I did that for 3 days and noticed the pool turned seafoam green and got very cloudy. The pool would get very foamy on the surface every time I shocked it.
I ordered a Taylor K-2006 test kit and did my best at testing the water. The PH seemed to be below the 7.0 minimum and the Alkalinity seemed to be between 85-90 with FC at .4 and CC at 1.8.
I figured I needed to get those numbers in line, so I added some Alkalinity increaser followed by PH increaser a couple hours later. I also noticed that my steps were quickly becoming a rusty type of color. I started reading online a little bit about why, and thought maybe it was metals. I found a bottle of Metal Free that the previous owner left, so I added it to the pool.
The next day I took a sample to the pool store and they came up with the following numbers.They told me that my pool had copper in it, and that copper and shock react and cause the water to look cloudy and green.
- Temp=72,
- Saturation Index= -.1,
- TDS=1000,
- Total Chlorine=4.2,
- Free Chlorine=3,
- PH=7.4,
- Alkalinity=98,
- Total Hardness=316.
They had me add aThey said to wait 3 days, then add 9lbs of burnout shock. I am scheduled to add the shock on Thursday.
- 32oz bottle of staintrine,
- 12 lbs of Balance Pak 100.
Sorry for such a long post, but i just want to know if you all think this sounds like the best route to take. Thanks a ton.
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