Well, it took me awhile to find "BurnOut 3", but I finally found it on the EPA's pesticide site:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_s...3-20100628.pdf

It's a diluted calcium hypochlorite mixture, sold under all these names: "PROGUARD GRANULAR CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE",
"BIOGUARD MAINTAIN CLC3", & "BIOGUARD MAINTAIN BURN BOUT3"

Check and make sure that we're talking about THIS product: http://www.poolgeek.com/BioGuard-Burn-Out-3-P9506.aspx

OK. Now, assuming that you have added 85lbs of "Burn Out 3" (& not "Burn Out 35" or any of the OTHER products named "Burn Out something or other"), we need to see what you've done:

+ 85 x 0.57 = 48 lbs of 100% CaOCl or roughly, 48 lbs of chlorine gas equiv
+ your pool volume is 22,000 gallons (reported) for a PF of 5.4
+ so your total add chlorine is 5.4 x 48 or 260 ppm.

That's a lot. If you are reporting the weights and volumes accurately, this probably the worst case of someone being 'pool-stored' I've heard of this year. (It may not have been malicious: they may just be either very negligent or extremely ignorant!) I hope your pool is not a liner pool.

Do these things:

+ Never, ever trust that pool store again.
They have worked you over with a large industrial size auger.
Something like this:


+ Get an HTH 6-way test kit at one of these stores:
Walmart store #1771—Sturgis
1500 S Centerville Rd, Sturgis, MI 49091 (269) 651-8580
Walmart store #1378—Goshen
2304 Lincolnway E, Goshen, IN 46526 (574) 534-4094
+ Check your chlorine level as soon as you get back with that test. If the OTO drops turn orange, you have a level that probably between 20 and 40 ppm. If it turns brown, your level is probably OVER 50 ppm.

+ Check your stabilizer level also. You may find that the stabilizer test mixture is so cloudy all you can tell is that you have way more than 100 ppm. If so, take a glass measuring cup, fill it to the 1/4 cup line with pool water and the rest of the way, with tap water. Mix, and then test the stabilizer level in the pool water / tap water mix. Multiple the result by 4, and you'll have an approximate measure of your pool's CYA.

+ Let us know what you find.

+ There are two significant possibilities.
==> Your stabilizer was EXTREMELY high (> 400 ppm) and still is VERY high, but large portion of it has been converted to ammonia by bacteria. In this case, you could actually have added 250+ ppm of chlorine to your pool and yet have none left . . . and STILL need more chlorine.
==> You have EXTREMELY high stabilizer (> 400 ppm) and you have NOT lowered it, except by draining and refilling. You now have a pool chlorine level that is above 100 ppm, and is instantly bleaching out your chlorine tests.

Testing your pool for chlorine with OTO, and for stabilizer, as I described above will help determine if either of these possibilities is true. Regardless, there is NO way a pool store should have let you put in 250+ ppm of chlorine, without doing some very serious investigations.

So, please do the testing I described, and also post full info on your pool: pool surface type, filter & pump make and model, and so forth.

Best wishes