It's BAAACK!!!

[Sue225]

The pool was at 25ppm chlorine and my husband misunderstood me and added 2 gal of 12%. The chlorine is so high i can't measure it. I was up to 100 drops of 0871 with taylor kit and still water was orangy looking. Will all this chlorine burn off?

[Watermom]

Yes. The chlorine will come down over time. Adding 2 gallons of 12% adding an additional 17ppm of cl to the pool -- so you are at around 42ppm of cl. Is this a vinyl pool?

[Sue225]

yes it is. Liner is alread in sorry shape puckering from unbalanced water since last summer. pool is 23 years old. We will either replace liner or new pool next summer if we don't blow it up before then!!

[aylad]

It may take a day or two, but the chlorine will come down on its own. The up side is that you now have a well-shocked pool!

Janet

[Sue225]

Ph is higher than 8
CC 0
fc 26 after sun was on it for a couple hours.
with cya of 80 i will leeft pool drift down to 20ppm and hold it there for 24 more hours. What do you think?
I am vacuuming to waste, by passing filter
will keep you posted about algae

[aylad]

The pH may be reading falsely high because your chlorine level is high, so I wouldn't adjust it until you get the chlorine down closer to normal levels. Let the chlorine drift down to 20 ppm, and leave it there until the pool clears, you're not losing any chlorine overnight, and your CC stays at 0. How's the water looking?

Janet

[Sue225]

water looks great! much clearer, that murky color is gone! pool was holding at 20 tonight! i have a question, when i check for cc it is colorless but, today i got side tracked for a few minutes and when i looked at the test cell it was slightly pink added 1 drop went clear, waited a few more minites and it was slightly pink again added another drop was clear. I did this about 5 times then i just quit. is this normal? do i have cc? Shoud you always let it sit or not? Thanks in advance.