Help.....Im in conversion confusion

[chlorinebound]

Well I am happy to inform you that my pool is clearing.....I added some baking soda with approx 8 gal of chl. last night. This morning a little more baking soda and by this afternoon ......I can see the bottom......was it the baking soda? was it the chlorine? was it the tricky way I poured the bleach in the skimmer? I really have no idea....was it the combination of the three actions....I would say it finally gave in to the bleach butt kicking it was getting. I am very happy.......


I really am excited about seeing the bottom. And I have 8 more bottles of Ultra.....My reading this afternoon was 8 so I will use calc....I do have alot of tablets in the skimmer too......

Pool still stinks of bleach....How long will this last and what do I do now?

[aylad]

The bleach is finally working---yay!! What you're smelling is chloramines, which is the Baq being oxidized by the chlorine. The answer? more chlorine! Keep hitting it and stay at 10-15, and the pool WILL clear. I wouldn't add any more baking soda or anything else right now except the bleach.
Janet

[ILHoz]

I just went through this conversion 2 1/2 weeks ago and I also was feeling like I would never see the bottom of my pool again.

my only suggestion for you is chlorine, chlorine, chlorine and trust in those of us that have gone through it. My 13500 gl pool took almost a week and 40 some gallons chlorine.

I am happy to say my pool has never looked better!

Good luck,
Leslie

[duraleigh]

From an earlier post in this thread:

Stay the course, Test and dose accurately (I cannot stress that enough) and your pool will clear......

The 8 gallons of Clorox raised your chlorine to 35.6 PLUS whatever was already present.....so your chlorine was probably 40+ppm.

It's your liner but I would suggest a little more accuracy when you apply the additives to your pool.

[chlorinebound]

I said approx 8 gal. It was more like 6 and it wasnt Ultra so Im not sure what the level was but Im sure you "DAVE" have the answer. I guess I should say thank you to Janet. She has support without sarcasm. Thank you Janet and I will pray for my liner tonight. Dave if you have any helpful things to say great. If not, dont bother responding to my questions. You are beginning to irritate me.

[chlorinebound]

If we calculate the actual dosage into the pool dave it started at 1.9 ppm

adding 4 gal of 5.25% raising approx2.75 per=11
1.5 gal of 6% raising approx 3ppm per gal=4.5

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15.5 + existing 1.9=17.4ppm

[duraleigh]

Hmmm, I'm sorry that my very blunt caution was offensive to you. It was not my intent to irritate you but rather to give you an obvious, attention-getting "heads up".

When you posted:

approx 8 gal

I thought that's what you meant. Sorry.

[chlorinebound]

No problem, I was using an approximate. My fault. But it did work. I apprecciate the warning about the liner. What is the maint. schedule after pool clears. numbers yesterday
Chl was 8 so I addded bleach
PH was 6.9 so I added baking soda
Total alkalinity was 79
cya was 7

[aylad]

The baking soda is to raise alk, not pH--if you're needing to raise your pH, use Borax.....

Janet

[VOLDADDY]

I said approx 8 gal. It was more like 6 and it wasnt Ultra so Im not sure what the level was but Im sure you "DAVE" have the answer. I guess I should say thank you to Janet. She has support without sarcasm. Thank you Janet and I will pray for my liner tonight. Dave if you have any helpful things to say great. If not, dont bother responding to my questions. You are beginning to irritate me.

You know, for somebody to spend their time trying to help "YOU" out and to get "YOUR" pool straightened out, you are very ingrateful & condescending. Dave was merely trying to inform the uninformed, yourself, about the dangers of bleaching out your liner. You need to look back and see how many times he has posted on your thread alone to try and help you, then look at his total number of posts. I assure you, he has answered many many more questions than he has asked. Good luck in your conversion, as I too went through the conversion from Baquacil to BBB. Just remember, Dave owes you nothing, and is simply trying to help you out. The "beginning to irritate me" sentence was out of line and uncalled for.