Hello

[carsport]

Quick question or two or three, (should I start a new thread somewhere?)

I'm pretty stable now and have come down to chlorine levels more appropriate for swimming/floating.

(1) What do I do when I go out of town? I have the filters that allow for me to stick a 1" tab in there to disperse, but the only tabs that I have are trichlor+copper-such-and-such...Should I just "shock" the pool up to around 20Cl and then cover it?

(2) When I test for CCs, which isn't every time I test the water since I've become fairly stable IMO, I get a very slight pink hue which always takes 1 drop of reagent to clear up. I have been calling this CC <0.5 but is that in any way accurate? To be more clear, it is not dark pink, but very VERY light pink.

(3) If the above really does indicate I have a small amount of CCs then should I shock to 20 and wait until there is absolutely no presence of CC? I feel like there will always be a very tiny bit of CCs in a pool.

(4) Thanks for the heads-up on the Intex deals, but my wife shot the idea down. Possibly next summer for a bigger pool. Is there a "best" size for Intex? I guess by that I mean is there a pool that provides the best mix of included pump/filter/volume. I think the most yard we're willing to sacrifice would be for a 16' pool at the most.

I've attached two screenshots of my excel spreadsheet so far: Screen Shot 2012-07-24 at 1.53.09 PM.pngScreen Shot 2012-07-24 at 1.52.59 PM.png