Well, i added a bottle of bleach (Clorox no longer comes in gallon bottles and the Bleach calculator said to add .8 gallons which is about what is in a bottle) to my pool to bring it up to 15ppm but now my total chlorine is so high the regents test turns a pumpkin orange for total chlorine. I even tried adding just one drop of regents and it is still orange. I did try a test strip and yesterday it didn't seem to register and "Bleach=Chlorine?" said it might be getting bleached out. It wasn't because now the test strip shows Free Chlorine at over 10 which is the highest the test strip goes. So now do i just wait for the free chlorine level to come down? Any guess as to how long this will take? And will this get rid of the combined chlorine? How do i prevent this from happening?
All the other numbers seem in the right range except for the hardness at 400, how do i lower that?
Thanks for all the help
Marjie