Ongoing issues

[jeremyweber]

Thanks for the quick reply. Will take water sample to store tomorrow and post results. Pool is vinyl inground and about 20k gallons.

AnythIng to do about the foam issue. Or should I get the chem right first?

[CarlD]

really, the only thing we'll have you address at first is chlorination and pH. Everything else can wait but we need to know what they are. Heavy chlorination should take care of the foaming, too.

Carl

[Watermom]

Do yourself a favor and buy a good test kit so you don't have to rely on the pool store. We recommend the Taylor K-2006 or 2006C. If you order it through the Amazon link in my signature, the Pool Forum makes a little money which helps keep this forum up and running. (Only buy from Amato Industries, however. Some of the other sellers through Amazon are substituting the K-2005 which you do NOT want.)

[jeremyweber]

Carl I have put at least. 4 gallons of 12% chlorine since saturday so I bet its the cya. Will get results tomorrow and post.

Watermom looking at the test kit now. What the difference between the two? And I don't see it available from amato

[aylad]

The kits are the same, except the "c" version has larger amounts of reagents in it.

Keeping your chlorine above 12 ppm can take LOTS more than 4 gallons. You just have to keep testing and adding more until the pool clears up and the foam dissipates. The "swamp treatment" likely has created even more of a chlorine demand, and if your CYA was high at the end of last season, it also can breakdown over the winter into ammonia and create huge chlorine demands. THey can be overcome, but you need to be diligent about it.

Janet

[Watermom]

I just looked at the Amazon links. Amato Industries must currently be sold out of the K-2006. Probably all the folks that we are sending from Pool Forum buying all their inventory! That has happened before, but usually in a few days, they again are showing up as having them available. But, they DO currently show the K-2006C as being in stock. That one is a better buy anyways.

[jeremyweber]

Pool kit ordered...

Water tested...

Free Available Chl 0.12 - yikes
Total Chlorine 1.17
Combined Chl 1.05
Total Alkalinity 107
pH 6.9
Calcium Hardness 104
Cyanuric Acid 21

Walmart was out of Borax so I picked up 5lbs ph increaser and 8 gallons of 12% liquid shock. Store clerk told me she would use 2lbs of the ph increaser and 4 gallons of the shock. Is that the right advice?