No Clue What To Do - no chlorine reading

[calamtykel]

OH - I should say compared to last night, it looks much clearer and "bluer". It looked clean to me last night but today I can really see the difference - clear as glass all the way down and I can see the "blueness" in it. Last night it had an all over yellowish/greenish tinge on the sides last night.
So while the chlorine today must have helped, I still am not getting a reading. I was in it for the first time today and noticed that all the sides, all the way around are SUPER bumpy - they feel like sand paper! I was surprised that this "grit" rubs off - it's very rough, like sand. Brushing doesn't take it off, but I grabbed a work glove I had on the deck and used that . It's all below the water line and on the sides and not bottom.

I'm about to hit the grocery store and buy a pile of regular bleach since my stab. is high. Is that an idea? 10 years and never had this trouble.....ugh!

[aylad]

In your situation, a "pile of regular bleach" is exactly what you need to be shocking with--I bet if you have your ammonia tested, you'll find that it's high, which makes for a huge chlorine demand, as Watermom said. Unfortunately, the only way to overcome that is to keep adding chlorine (read: bleach) until you overcome the ammonia. The chlorine you're putting into the pool is getting used up quickly by "stuff" in your pool, as evidenced by the high CC reading--you have to get it to shock level (and maintain that level until the CC reading goes to 0) in order to get the pool clean.

Janet