Hello,

Thanks for this great site!!!!

My pool worked fine until I left town on vacation, came back home and had algeae. shock/vacuum, clear up for a day and then all over again. Found this site..now using 3 b's.

Starter last night

readings....

TC/TB....slightly above 5/10
PH.....7.5
alk....140
cya...110

poured in 1 gallon of bleach 6%...filter running 24/7

this am

TC/TB.....way above 5/10
ph.....7.5
alk.....190
cya....100

my test kit only reads up to 5/10 so not sure what the level is but it IS high to combat the cya (as I understand from all my reading here). alk not a real issue since vinyl AG pool.

Is there a way to calcuate what the TC really is using my test kit from hth at walmart?

Do I need to vacuum to waste as the algea settles to the bottom and keep scrubbing the walls? daily or when?

thanks for an aweseome site..