Brand new and overwhelmed above ground pool owner...

[Watermom]

Free Chlorine 1
Total Chlorine 6

I certainly hope this is testing error. It would NOT be good if you really did have a CC reading of 5ppm!

FC+CC=TC.

[JoeJet]

Hmmmm

3 x 0.2 = 0.6

Not 6

My Bad.

[PoolDoc]

3 x 0.2 = 0.6 Not 6

[JoeJet]

I'm back! Lots of rain this past week so basically I've been maintaining.

Here are this mornings readings:

2.8 Free Chlorine; 0.4 Combined Chlorine; 3.2 Total Chlorine
7.4 PH
90 Total Alkalinity
35ish CYA

So do I just keep throwing in Dichlor?

Thanks,

Joe
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[Watermom]

Yes, you have some room to let your CYA rise a bit so you can continue to use dichlor. Look at your manual for your SWCG. It will tell you how high the CYA needs to be for your unit. Once you get it at that point, then just use your SWCG.

Just use a 10mL sample when you test chlorine instead of a 25mL one. It will make your testing reagents last longer. You can multiply the number of drops by 0.5 instead of 0.2.

[JoeJet]

So we screwed up last night...

After an amazing day in the pool with family and friends I shocked the pool hoping to finally get the CYA to the right spot. Sadly my wife shocked it this morning too.

Here are the readings:

Free Chlorine: 10.4; Combined Chlorine: .8
PH: 7.2
Alkalinity: 90
Calcium: 100
CYA 40
Sodium: 600

I measured Sodium in anticipation of starting the generator but I'm not doing anything until I hear from you kind folks.

I hope we didn't mess things up!

Thanks,
Joe
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[PoolDoc]

No problem; you can even continue swimming!

(You may want to use the 10ml sample to test chlorine (1 drop = 0.5 ppm), so your reagents will last longer.)

[JoeJet]

Wow! I really thought the Chlorine was too high!

Off to the store to buy about 300 more pounds of salt!

The salt generator says the chlorine needs to be around 3 to turn it on though.

Thanks as always,
Joe