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

[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.

[BigDave]

"Burns off" is what I'm getting to. If you can, test and add dichlor(if needed) more often to keep it from ever getting to the minimum reccomendation of Ben's Best Guess Chart.
If you can only test / dose daily, please test before adding chlorine and increase the amount you add until you do have an FC residual the next time you test.