Newly Registered-Lots of Problems

[crandies]

Okay I have everything I need for now. Pool is a loverly shade of green. Pumps running. Here are my readings from the 6-way kit.
Chlorine - 0
Ph - 7.5
Alkilinity - 120 ppm
Hardness - 190 ppm
I am getting no rating at all on CYA

What next?

[crandies]

The Clorox is like the undiluted laundry detergents they make today. There is just less water in the jug and you are supposed to use less. A box of 3 are 8.29 at Costco.

[PoolDoc]

Sorry, but it's not possible -- chemically -- to have a 3x bleach (25%) concentrate using standard methods. If they tried to make it, it would break down before it arrived at the store!

This paper: http://www.powellfab.com/technical_i..._Pisarenko.pdf
describes a newly developed method of making 30% bleach that is transportable and will last up to a couple of weeks. But this is brand new technology.

To the best of my knowledge, NOBODY is selling bleach to consumers with more than 12.5% sodium hypochlorite. The industrial bleach I used buy in tanker loads was delivered within a day of manufacture, and arrived at 16 - 17% strength, though it was sold as 15%. If you spilled it on cotton rags, it would start a fire!

SO . . . I'm STILL not sure what you bought, but I AM sure it was not 24% bleach!

Please read the label and tell me what it reports, either as "X% available chlorine" or as "X% sodium hypochlorite".

[PoolDoc]

Sorry, I missed the previous post:

I am getting no rating at all on CYA
What next?

Purchase and use Sams Club dichlor if you can: http://pool9.net/sams-dichlor50/ This is undiluted dichlor (56% available chlorine) and will add 9 ppm of CYA for every 10 ppm of chlorine added.

[Pappy]

the "3X" is in reference to having 3 jugs in of 8.25% bleach in one package.

[crandies]

It reads Sodium Hypochlorite 8.25% and available chlorine 7.85%
I do not know why it says "CONCENTRATED" right across the top of the bottle. I know very little (well okay nothing) about chemistry except not to clean your bathroom with bleach and ammonia at the same time. I did go out and brush the pool and it started raining again. It is green. the hardness is too high and my CYA shows no reading at all. Should I use the Borax (is this the stabilizer)? Or start with the bleach? Thank you.

[crandies]

My readings are:
Chlorine -0-
Ph 7.5
alkalinity 120ppm
hardness 190 ppm
no rading on CYA

[Pappy]

Borax is not stabilizer, it raises pH. Since your pH is great, you don't need borax right now. You do need chlorine. I'd start with about 4 jugs this evening after the sun is off the pool. Since you have no stabilizer (cyanuric acid or CYA), the sun will "burn up" LOTS of chlorine. If you wait until the sun isn't shining on the pool, ALL the chlorine you add will go to burning up algae. Set your filter to recirculate and run 24/7 till algae is dead.

[crandies]

Thank you so much. I will do that. Where does the CYA come from?

[Pappy]

The easiest way to add CYA is the diclor PoolDoc referenced earlier. 1ppm chlorine also adds .9ppm CYA. Triclor tabs add CYA, AND lower pH. You can also get granular cyanuric acid at pool store/lowes/home depot/walmart.