Cloudy.. impatient

[BigDave]

The last pH we saw from you was 7.2, up from less than 6.8. Don't add muriatic acid, it's job is to lower pH.

Did you add bleach this morning?

Stay the course, maintain shock level, test and dose as often as possible, filter 24/7.

[chuck9997]

OK.. but its getting hard to be patient. I have been looking at blueish white water for 9 days.. been shocking for 13 days. If it weren't for the wife.. I would be hiring a bulldozer to take care of this. LOL

by the way.. I also put a cup or so of DE in the sand filter last night.. it didn't spit out the return.. (i am thinking that's encouraging.. maybe my filter is ok).. but it also didn't clear the water overnight. I added a little more this morning.. then it was too much. so i backwashed and flushed all the DE out. Had to go to work and didn't have time to add any more DE.

[BigDave]

You can see the return?

It's always hard to be patient. Let's kill the algae then clean up the water.

[chuck9997]

yes.. I can see the return.. its only a few inches from the top. I can see a couple steps down into the pool.. probably 18-24 inches.

[Watermom]

I've asked Ben to pop onto this thread and see if he can think of anything else that might help.

[chuck9997]

tonight's readings:
FC 11ppm
CC .5ppm
PH 7.3-7.4
ALK 90
HARDNESS 100
CYA 30-40

I just now added 182 ounces of 6% bleach.. and put some more DE in the sand filter.

Day before yesterday I left the pump off over night to see if anything would settle to the bottom.. it didn't.

Still cloudy/blue.. looks inviting.. just not clear. Visibility is about 18inches down.

[BigDave]

Measure FC tonight (if you get this) now that your chlorine addition is mixed in. Measure again before the sun is on the pool. If you lose more than 1ppm FC and have less than 0.5ppm CC, maintain shock level for another day then let FC come down if there's no CC(less thsan 0.5) and less than 1 ppm FC loss overnight.