never ending chlorine demand help

[aylad]

If you'll go to WalMart and buy the 6-way drop based kit they sell for around $15, it includes a CYA test and you can test it yourself. The problem with stabilizer (or any parameter) being "good", is that you don't know what they are comparing the "good" to. Stabilizer is stabilizer, and what level you have dictates what level of chlorine you have to keep in the pool to keep it clean. So without a good idea of what the stabilizer level is, you're just guessing when it comes to how much bleach to add. I would either get the other test kit and test it myself, or take your water sample to that store and one more, if possible, and have it tested again.

Janet

[cloudy water]

ok my Wal Mart only had 6 way stripes so I got them and the pool store is still saying no stabilizer but the stripe says it is good at 100 so I have added 6 and half gallons of bleach we will see what it says in the morning..

[CarlD]

Are you using WalMart strips or the WalMart HTH drop test kit aylad recommended?

I don't understand how a CYA level of 100ppm is indicated as "good"--it's far too high if it's accurate, which it probably isn't as strips are notoriously hard to read correctly.

[cloudy water]

all they had were strips and I miss read it it is at 50ppm the bleach seems to be working I have gone from a very green pool to a light green so we r making progress my ph was high so I added acid I will test agine tomorrow.

[Watermom]

Keep hitting it with bleach. As often as you can per day, test and add enough bleach to get it back to shock level.

Also, you don't say what your readings are but, if your chlorine level is higher than 10, your pH test will falsely show higher pH than you actually have. So, don't test pH or add muriatic acid unless your cl is below 10ppm.