Hello All,
I live in North Carolina and i have a 13,500 Gallon above ground pool. I Have maintained it the first two seasons on my own with a minimum of problems and I knew alot less then than I do now. Last season, even with the help of the Pool Stores, I fought with it all season. This year I opened it up in April and was able to clear up the green within just about 3 days of not working that hard at it. However, since April, once the algae was killed and I had all this white cloudiness from the dead algae, I have worked from mid April until now and it is early June and I have still not gotten rid of this white haze. I have kept my ph, alkalinity, and free chlorine in the appropriate levels, have used both floculant followed up by vaccuming and clarifier at different times, neither of which worked. The pool store keeps selling me shock to try to oxidize this dead algae. Then tells me to flock and vaccuum. I vaccuumed twice last week then it rained, which depleted my CYA. Therefore my FC fell below normal and my CC went up to .8 then the pool store sold me the recommended amount of shock to get rid of the CC but instead, it went up to 1.1. They are now recommending 25lbs of calcium Hypochlorite to fix the problem. This year my experience has been that each time I get advice from them the problem only compounds. So I have readjusted my levels as follows and went on the search for new advise. These levels come from a brand new package of color matching sticks so i cant give exact numbers

total hardness: just over 250
PH 7.2 - 7.4
Alkalinity about 100
CYa 60 - 80

The last pool store analysis today said my CC was 1.1 I havent adjusted chlorine yet. I was looking for the best course of action, keeping in mind I cannot get this white haze to oxidize either.