still have cloudy water

[brent.roberts]

You will get yourself going in ever widening cirlces if you take advice from difference sources and mix them. Nobody here has an axe to grind ( profit ) from helping you.

Download the bleachcal program from Micheal Smith link
at http://www.hal-pc.org/~mwsmith2/BleachCalc262.exe and it will give you a good basis for how much of anything to add:
bleach, CYA, muriatic acid, borax, baking soda etc, even calculate your pool volume. great tool

In the meantime keep the cover off the pool and hope that the sun shines to knock you chlorine levels down quickly.

The cloudiness can come from 2 sources I am aware of and not knowing the background of your situation ....

Anyway a high level of chlorine will kill of an algae bloom and leave all the cells in the water and white, making cloudiness. The type of filter you have, how well it is functioning, and how long you run it will affect how fast it clears up. Could take a couple days. If you have a sand filter, get a package of DE from the pool store (and hopefully nothing else ) and add it slowly to your skimmer with the pump running until you see the pressure in the filter go up about 1 lb. Then keep it running. Many folks here have used this trick to filter out the fine stuff more quickly.

2) the high levels of shock can sometimes cause calcium to percipitate into cloudiness. Got to filter that fine stuff out the same way.

You should be cleared up in a day or two.

Meanwhile, while you're at the pool store, and after consulting the Bleachcal program, get enough CYA ( aka cyuranic acid, stabilizer, etc. ) to raise your CYA level to something around 40. Don't put the CYA in until the pool is clear because when it clears you will want to backwasy the filter and start fresh. CYA takes forever to dissolve ( days ) and if you put it directly into the water and then backwash, you could lose it before it dissolves. Some folks put it in a skimmer sock of nylon stocking hung in the pool where there is some flow, then they can vacuum and backwash without losing it.

Hope all this helps.

[timmie]

hi, yes this helped. My pool is clear, and I have some algae left that I brush and leave for the chlorine to eat up. My pump is on 24/7, and I backwash everyday. I have to find some borax as my Ph is 7.0. I dont think they sell it where I live. I may take a day trip to the U.S to pick up a truckload! ( just kidding, will get some boxes). I was going to put in a salt water system, but I think I will just use the 3 B's. I can't believe the good info I am picking up.
I had told the guy at the pool store that I kept my pump running and that cleared my pool up. He looked at me funny,.he told me to turn my pump off.............Thanks again everyone, what an awesome site!!
Timmie

[brent.roberts]

You should be able to get 20 Mule Team borax at any reasonable grocery store.

If you can't, I'll send you some from Toronto.