Start up chemistry for first time pool owner

[Watermom]

How does your water look?

[eblade21]

Watermom thank you for asking

Unbelievable beautiful crystal clear

I also used a HTH 6 way test kit to double check the chlorine level and was way above the scale.

[Watermom]

If your water is clear and you have a CC reading of 0, then let your chlorine level drift down. (Now I see that you stated in your previous post that the water was clear. Sorry I missed that.)

[eblade21]

Watermom you never need to apologize.

I will just vacuum my pool tomorrow and vacuum my pool. I will check all my levels early evening.

Can my children go in the pool with such high level of FC?

[Watermom]

Ben would most likely tell you go ahead and swim but just wear old suits. I'm a little more conservative and though it is probably fine, if it were my kids, I'd probably wait until it came down to under 20 (with a CYA of 60) and then wear an old suit that it won't matter if it fades.

By the way, no need to check everything every day when you aren't having problems. Just check chlorine and pH but if your chlorine is above 10ppm (with a Taylor kit), you'll need to dilute your water sample (half pool water and half distilled water mixed together) and then run the pH test with that.