Re: Test results
Kay, sorry to hear you've got cloudy water again(are you sure the landscaper didn't pay you a quick visit
?)
If you have no cya in the water, the sun may be eating up the cl very quickly and algae may be trying to take hold, you might want to invest in a few gal of bleach and see if it helps. Again, if there's no cya in the water, you need to add some - it's a good idea to take it up slowly. {my opinion used to be to keep the cya at 30-40ppm -- after reading discussions here (mostly in the China Shop section), I'm now adding enough to get to 45-60ppm on SWCG pools, please read the info and decide for yourself where you want the cya to be!}
As for the calcium, I think you've got enough to satisfy any demand the water would create in a liner pool -- (the calcium level is another 'China Shop' topic - it relates to the Langlier index which was never intended to be used for pools {open systems}, but going with Langlier numbers usually keeps water chemistry problems to a bare minimum ) if you keep the numbers where the manufacturer recomends, you won't void the warrantee. Again, you have to decide where you want to keep your chem levels.
The discrepency between your cya test and the pool store's bothers me, having a good amt for a SWCG vs none is too much of a difference - are you sure you're doing the test right? (I assume that the pool store's test has a good bit of 'slop' in it, but 70ppm seems a bit too much).
As a last thing (for now), backwash the filter and add ~1/2 the DE you added before, if it is DE causing the clouding, it'll eventually end up in the filter.
If you need more help or advice - you know where to get it
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Re: Test results
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