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Hello
Hey all - new to pools from Texas.
Purchased a cheap 10' pool from wally-world to determine how much we like taking care of one and if we were into pools for the long haul. Perhaps in the near future we will add a permanent pool to our backyard.
Currently learning about pools, what does and doesn't work, and how great they are in these Texas summers!
We recently went out of town from Fri-Sun and forgot to add chlorine before we left (oops). Unsurprisingly came home to a greenish pool. Since it is only around 1100 gallons I decided to drain and refill instead of battle the nasty for a week.
Last night I refilled and added around 1/2 gallon of bleach (the bleach I had was from the dollar store and I can't find the actual percentage, plus it is several months old so it likely is even less than when fresh).
Today I removed the rest of the leaves and vacuumed/scrubbed the bottom of the pool. (Did I forget to mention our pool gets very little full sunlight because of our massive pecan tree? This is one of the reasons putting in a permanent pool is so hard for us, we'll have to lose our tree). I am planning on trimming some tomorrow, but it will probably only add about 1-2 full hours of sun per day.
Tonight I am sitting with a clean pool, that just may be slightly cloudy. After testing everything this evening with my K-2006 ordered through the links here on Amazon:
FC: 5.0
CC: 1.0
pH: 8.0+ (stupidly added a lot of borax when I added a lot of chlorine...)
TA: 100
CYA: 0
I have since tossed 2 - 1" tabs of dichlor, and probably stupidly 1/3 cup of HTH stabilizer.
Ran out of bleach over the last couple of weeks so I am about to go buy about 3 gallons. Planning on adding about 1/3 of a gallon to bring it up to shock level then testing it in the morning and holding it there for a couple of days since I have a CC reading.
Looking forward to reading and learning more here, figured it was time to register and be a part of your great community.
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