Quote Originally Posted by poolrescue30 View Post
Ok, I poured in the 5 gallon 12.5 sodium hypo last night at 10:45 pm, I tested this morning at 8am , and got .5 FC
And 2.00 TCL !!!I put in the sedcond 5 gal. Sodium hypo and by 10:30am, it was only showing 1.2 FCL, 2.2 TCL , so my CC's are still there. Pool guy is at his wits end, gave me two 5 lbs containers of Cqalcium hypochlorite 65% chlrine and told me to mix with water and pour in the skimmer. What are my options, should I drain half the pool ?? Keep on pouring chlorine in ??? Thanks
The Cal-Hypo won't do any good--if anything it will work slower than the Sodium Hypochlorite (the LC you are using). In the water, chlorine is chlorine. It will just make your pH go up. I think you have to keep hammering it with the LC until it goes up and stays up. You are clearly fighting something--I don't know what.

Chem_Geek...What would happen if P-R boosted the borates, then added acid to bring pH down? Would that help at this point or be a waste of time?