Digger's Pool

[Digger]

Carl, how do I test the water though without going to pool store, will Wal-Mart test kit that tests 6 ways work?

[Watermom]

Hi Digger,
You are going to be so glad that you switched off of Baquacil. Is your pool still cloudy and green. (I assume it turned all sorts of pretty shades of green as you converted from baq. to chlorine!)

Now, you just need to keep hitting it with bleach until you can get the pool to hold a chlorine reading overnight and the pool clears. You don't want to change the sand until that happens.

Go and read a lot of the posts about other people's conversion stories in the baq forum and then come back here to ask whatever questions you still have. You are really going to need a good test kit. We recommend the Taylor K-2006. A good price for it can be found at the following link. The Walmart kit you mentioned will be a temporary help but without a good kit, it will be harder for you to manage your pool and we don't want you going back to the pool store. They have enough of your money already. You'll get better advice here.

By the way -- I hope you saw my note in your top post telling you why I moved your posts into a new thread.

http://www.amatoind.com/taylor-k2006-test-p-555.html

[CarlD]

If you have an OTO test kit for chlorine, preferably one that goes to 5ppm, you'll need a jug of steam distilled water (at any supermarket or discount drug chain) and a shot glass. You don't REALLY need a shot glass, but it wouldn't be the Patented CarlD Shot Glass Method without it!

Do a search on the Shot Glass Method.

Carl

[Digger]

Okay, so all of my posts are under Diggers Pool, right? At first I was reading about dumping the water, etc. I guess that was because I was in the middle of anothers post, sorry, I need to learn how to post! there is so much to learn, and I have a pool staring at me, smile. How does things look so far from the facts I gave you all? It is 25,000 gal. and a vinyl pool. I am so scared of hurting the liner. Also how do we know when it is safe to swim? Well, I am going for more bleach and distilled water. I ordered my Taylor test kit, and dd read some of the posts how to make do until than. So once I get this clear, and have the levels right, everything is dandy, right? Thanks again so much for putting the control into my hands, I always hated giving the control to people who were lining their pocketbooks with my money, darn-it! Thank you so MUCH!!

[Watermom]

Post new numbers tomorrow and also tell us how the water looks. We'll help you get this all figured out and get those grandkids swimming!

[Digger]

Hi, thanks for the help. I am not getting any readings to amount to anything, but there appears to be some clearing. I am ready to go and dump about 10 gallons in, will that be okay, or too much at one time. Going by what is being said, I really need to get it up there to 15 and hold. So how much do I dump in at a time. We have been doing 4-5 gallons up until now. It is getting there, but not in a timely fashion. I can be patient, if that is the way to do it. Thanks, Kathy

[Watermom]

10 gallons will take your chlorine too high. You can do 5, though. That will take you to 12. I posted right at the same time you sent your last post. Scroll back up above yours and find mine and read it.