Janet,

I posted in two different locations only because I was unfamiliar with this forum. My post did not show up immediately like in other forums I belong to, so I thought that the first post unlocked your ability to post regularly. My mistake and I am sorry.

Update today: I took my sample into my pool store and they said all my numbers were good except for FC, which was zero. They said my ph was 7.7, too. I spoke to another friend who went through a similar problem a few years ago where he had to super cholrinate with 40 gallons of chlorine to break through. He mentioned another pool store that would be able to calculate how much chlorine I would need to use. I went there and they tested my water and told me that my ph was very high, 8.8. I don't know why the other store was different, but I bought my own test kit and am going to do my own testing from now on. With my test kit, my FC looks like .5, just barely there, which matches what the second store told me.

My pool is cloudy (milky white, probably from the soda ash I used when store #1 kept telling me my ph was low, eeven though my test strips were telling me it was good), so I added stuff to lower ph to the high 7 range and am preparing to super chlorinate tonight. Store #2 said they would get back to me about how much chlorine to use, they were too busy to calculate at the time I was there.

Any idea how much bleach to use to super chlorinate?? From my understanding, if you don't use enough the first time you are just wasting your money. Is that correct?