First Time using Taylor HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aylad]

Adding information from another post regarding this same situation to this thread in an effort to keep it all in one place. mroll, please continue this thread with your testing/chlorine issue so that you don't have responses to the same situation scattered out over the forum. I'll delete your other post.... thanks, Aylad
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Using Taylor for 4 days now... I should mention first that the water is beautiful. HOWEVER, I cannot get Free Chlorine up. It went from .4 to 1.5 to zero!! Perhaps I test at the wrong time of the day. I test around 5 pm right before I add chemicals and run filter. Is this wrong?????
PH is now normal..TA a little low at 70. (Just added baking soda) Two days ago CYA was non-existing too. Been putting in 1 ounce of dichlor a day but just now put in 1 1/2 ounces. Want to get these numbers in line so I can start using BBB. THANKS...
So glad I joined. this forum is wonderful................

[aylad]

As long as you don't have stabilizer in the water, the sun is going to deplete your chlorine. Try adding your dichlor tonight, then measure your chlorine after the sun is off the pool. In the morning, measure the chlorine before the sun hits the pool. This will tell us if there is something in the water eating the chlorine, or if the sun is consuming it during the day. If the loss is to the sun, then you simply need to add chlorine at some point during the day so that it never goes to zero. Once you have some stabilizer in the water, then you can dose the pool daily and should be able to maintain the levels you want. If the loss is overnight, then you have something in the pool that needs to be killed, and that's accomplished by shocking the pool.

[mroll]

FC levels are about 2-2.5 in morning now. TA going up finally around 80-90. Tested CYA again yesterday. STILL
No reading yet.. everything else is fine..Strange?

[BigDave]

How much total dichlor have you added so far? You won't be able to get a reading until you work your way up to a total of about three pounds. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying throw 3lbs in, remember what aylad said

In 5700 gallons, each 2.5 ounces of dichor should add roughly 2 ppm of chlorine to your pool.

[mroll]

Well, only about 1 lb so far. At this rate ( 2 ounces per evening) will hit 3 lbs. when I'm on vacation. Should I have my son continue with the 2 ounces per night. Then when I get home it will have had bout 4 lbs of dichlor total put in. Will that make the CYA too high or normal range? Thanks so very much.

[BigDave]

Do you have FC at the end of the day, before you add chlorine?

[mroll]

Do you have FC at the end of the day, before you add chlorine?

Been checking in the morning only before burns off. Today was FC 3; PH 7.2 TA 80-90..Will check again late afternoon before put in dichlor again. thanks.