Cloudy water

[poolpuppy]

Thank you. I sure have hope now. I'll keep it up and see what happens. It's Memorial Day weekend in Florida and I want to get in the pool Thanks for all your help. Will keep you posted.

[poolpuppy]

Is there a guide for how long stabilizer lasts in different sun conditions? I've searched but couldn't find anything. My pool now has no algae and is blue but still cloudy. I have the new 2500 gph pump running for over a week now, kept the chlorine at dark yellow to orange but after putting a pound in a sock over the side of the pool a week ago, it's not holding well now. Not much crud on the filter cartridge anymore and the pump doesn't slow down water output now. I want to order the 2006 kit but new tires took that $ out of my wallet so any help would be appreciated.
I don't want to add stabilizer

[PoolDoc]

Stabilizer does not deteriorate in amounts you'd notice, so long as the pool is algae and slime free.

Unfortunately, without knowing your current stabilizer (CYA ppm) level, there's no way to answer your other question, about how much chlorine you need -- since the answer to that depends on your CYA level.

[Watermom]

Walmart sometimes stocks an HTH 6-Way kit that can check CYA. That will suffice until you can order the K-2006. If they don't have it, can you let a pool store run the CYA test but just don't let them sell you a bunch of stuff! (Not a test with strips, but the "disappearing black dot test.") Then, report that back here.

[poolpuppy]

Thanks. Will take water in to test tomorrow since you said the CYA shouldn't disappear that quickly.

[PoolDoc]

Will take water in to test tomorrow since you said the CYA shouldn't disappear that quickly.

Get a test kit!! Pool store testing of CYA is massively unreliable; some stores are fine; some are totally random. We constantly recommend the K-2006 (see page in my sig) and I can't recall any negative feedback (except, "this is kinda complicated", but there's no way round that one.) However, if Walmart's in your area have them the HTH 6-way drops kit is ALSO made by Taylor and is a great place to start. It DOES include the CYA test.

[poolpuppy]

Water tested at pool store shows
TC 9.9
FC 9.9
CC 0.0
PH 7.4
TA 125
CH 130 low what's recommended to get this up?
CYA 50
Dissolved solids 650

NOTE: Stopped at Dollar Tree and stocked up on Bleach as it was only #1 there but noticed when I got home and read label it only has 2.75 % sodium hypochloride. I looked at label from one I got at Winn-Dixie and it didnt have any percentages on it. Guess I thought 6% was standard but will surely check from now on.

[Watermom]

6% bleach is standard but it is not uncommon for some of the dollar store type places to have lesser percentages of bleach so it is not always a good deal.

You do NOT need to raise your calcium hardness in an Intex pool.

[poolpuppy]

I read about the calcium in BBB method after I posted. See, those pool stores tried again I think he was surprised when I walked out without his recommendation.

So do the numbers I posted look good and should I just keep adding the bleach and cleaning the filter?? It seems to be getting a teeny bit clearer but this has been going on over 3 wks now. We've been getting a lot of rain in FL tho.

[poolpuppy]

I can see the whole skimmer hose......WOW, it's starting to clear. Just wanted to share some good news.
One more question. Has anyone thought of doing or did disconnect the skimmer hose from the bottom of the skimmer basket and let it go to the bottom so it would intake water from the bottom of the pool? It's easily reattached to the skimmer basket to get stuff off the top.