Will this work?

[PoolDoc]

If you dose with cal hypo, as instructed above, that will take care of it. Just make sure your chlorine doesn't get below 2.0 ppm

[HOF-City]

Added the cal hypo and borax. Waited a couple hours then tested. My FC is under 1 and CC is 3. You said to make sure Chlorine stays above 2. Should I keep adding? Pool is looking the same. Steps have remained clean thus far after scrubbing, basically just green-blue color and cloudy.

[PoolDoc]

Yeah. You probably don't want FC + CC > 10 ppm. But, until you reach that, yeah, keep adding chlorine.

[HOF-City]

So its been a few days of adding borax and chlorine through the skimmer. I also would add extra chlorine when the FC was below 2. This morning I tested, and for the first time the FC was higher than the CC. Here is what I had:
-FC=5.2
-CC=1
-PH=7.0
-Alkalinity=130
The pool is slowly becoming less cloudy, but the color seems the same. Still has a sea foam blue-green color, but I can see the entire shallow end for the first time today. I can also see deeper into the deep end, but not to the floor yet. The orange-rusty color keeps coming back on my steps. Usually after a day or 2. Should I continue with the routine I have been doing, or do you suggest anything different? Thanks for your help.

[Watermom]

Stay the course. Sounds like you're making progress. That pH is a little low. Bump it up a bit with some Borax.

[HOF-City]

This is getting frustrating. I was seeing a noticeable improvement, and could see the entire floor of the pool. One day goes by where I'm unable to return home to add bleach in the evening and it gets cloudy again. Not 100% cloudy, but worse than a few days ago. My Chlorine level really did not even drop. I have had it steady at 3 for a while now. Maybe it regressed for some other reason, but im not sure what that may be. We opened the pool on April 30th, and 20 days later it's marginally better. Any other ideas? Also, my girlfriend was trying to do me a favor when I told her I was out of bleach today, and she ended up purchasing 12 bags of "poolLife" TurboShock from a pool store for me. It is 78% Calcium Hypochlorite and 22% other. Will this be OK to use, or should I return it. Thanks.

[waterbear]

The poollife is better than the burnout you were using. It is stronger.

[PoolDoc]

Hi HOF;

Actually, the TurboShock will work well for you -if- you meet the following conditions;
(a) have DE tested your filter to make sure that *pool* DE will NOT blow through your filter. (If it does, your filter needs repair. Do NOT use brewery or other non-pool DE for this purpose!)
(b) do not have ANY chemicals of ANY sort from your skimmer to your filter. This includes chlorine feeders, mineralizers, ionizers, chlorine skimmer tabs or anything else of the sort.

Again, provided you meet the conditions, adding the TurboShock DIRECTLY to your skimmer will help clear your pool. (Adding directly to the pool will CLOUD your pool!) But, you MUST be sure that the cal hypo does NOT touch any other undissolved chemical, except borax.

Also, I may be overlooking it, but I don't see a report of your calcium level. It may, or may not, be relevant but I can't tell without the numbers. So, please check your pH, alkalinity and calcium and let's see what they are.