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    Absolutely they can swim! As long as your pH is between 7-8 and you have some chlorine in the pool, let them in! It's torture having a pool that you can only look at but can't get in!

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    Hi

    So now that I got my pool up and running, I'm still adding dichlor and borax for the next 7 days as per the SSR.

    1. I test my water every morning
    2. I run the pump for 4 hours at 2pm or the hottest part of the day
    3. At night I add my dichlor and borax
    4. I run my pump on recirculation mode for about an 1 hour

    After I'm complete with the SSR and when my SWCG starts, I will only run the pump 4 hours at the hottest part of the day.

    And continue testing my water every morning

    Please excuse for all the questions, I just want to be as close to perfect as everyone here

    Thank you so so much
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    Best to test in the evening rather than the morning. You continue to use Dichlor until your CYA is where you want it. (SWCG units have specific CYA requirements. Check your manual.) It may not be 7 days of dichlor. Just depends on how high you want the CYA.

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    Hi all

    I just finished my 3lb of dichlor and borax, the water is crystal clear.

    Here are my reading a bit scared to add the salt please advise

    Using taylor k-2006c
    FC - 27 ppm (54 drops x 0.5)
    CC - 0 ppm
    CYA - 60
    TA - 100
    PH - 7.5

    Please understand it rained a lot this morning and there was no sun.

    Please advise what I should do with my FC
    Eddie
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    How does your water look?

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    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.
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    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.)

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    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?
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    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.

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