Are we doing it right?

[TTorreyson]

Thank you all for the tips and this forum in general. One last question for this go round.

Our CYA seems to have gone a bit to around 80. Our pool is now crystal clear and has been that way for a couple days now but the FC keeps dropping overnight. Example, last night we added bleach (3 x 182oz jugs) which when we tested it raised it to 31 and went to bed, this morning we got up and it was 20. We only ran the filter for an hour or so to circulate the bleach, then turned it off.

Any idea? Or do we just need to keep adding bleach until the 1ppm loss in maintained over night for a couple of days? Could there be something else that is consuming the FC?

Travis

[Watermom]

You haven't added any Polyquat algaecide in the past day or so have you? If not, and you are still using that much chlorine overnight, then you need to continue to shock your pool until you don't lose more than 1ppm of chlorine overnight and you don't have more than 0.5ppm of CC.

Have you checked your CC?

[TTorreyson]

During the day today we dropped from 35 down to 20 - So assuming a 3 to 5ppm drop due to sun, we are dropping 10ppm every 12 hours. We have not added any polyquat at all and our CC was 1.0.

I think our best course of action is to continue to add Ch until it stabilizes. I just hope it is soon so we can swim and stop pouring gallons of bleach in a crystal clear pool.