Conversion in Spring?

[larry b]

I too am converting in spring (living in milwaukee wis) been on baq for 4years now, not to bad but lots of $$$$$ as far as cloudy keep your baq at 30-50 and you might have to double shock it 4 gals a month not 2 also use the floc through your skimmer, 4-8caps every other day ( for only 2 days should trap particiles in your filter) have a 28ft above ground,sand filter, also dont ever use clairifer as it will deplete your baq and then u now what more $$$$$$, keep your pool clean vac bottom brush sides, when u go under water can u see the other side, mine is visible but not like bath water its those particles in the water that make it cloudy, from the top of the deck looking down it l looks very clear but?? u know keep up on the upkeep and u will make it when closing come in late sept, Im not going to and any chemicals,put the cover on and open in early may and go from there as my baq level should be at 0 hope things works out!!!

[b2001]

gonefishing:

Here's the blow by blow account:

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=895

The prep work I mentioned above falls outside the 5 days or so I mentioned - it took about 4 days when I first started pouring in chlorine to clear up and an extra day for the chlorine to hold overnight - I then started swimming at this point ...

The prep work took a while longer - part of that was I decided to drain my vinyl pool - I went down to 16 inches above the bottom in the shallow end. This is really not recommended, but I did it anyway. I went real slow with a sump pump and garden hose - it took a couple of days - and I constantly monitored the liner for wrinkles, etc. I then refilled immediately after getting to the low point. This entire process, including getting as much of the leaves and crap from bottom, took a few days - longer than the actual conversion process itself. My bacquacil level went from 50 ppm to 15 ppm - I'm sure that had a big effect on my conversion time. I constatnly cleaned the crap out of my cartridage filter and I also used a skimmer sock which had to be constatnly monitored and cleaned.

I know it was at least a week, if not longer from when I pulled my winter cover off until I started pouring in chlorine. I was hesitant to draining the pool, as well as starting the conversion process - I'm sure this cost me some time.

I've added a 3 pound bottle and half of a 4 pound bottle of cya so far - I'm having trouble measuring it - I'm calculating a cya level of between 40 and 50. I'm still working on this process ...