New Pool Owner. Help!

[aylad]

You need to get the chlorine back up to 25 ppm...if it keeps yo-yoing up and down, the pool is not going to clear. Regarding the calcium, you keep adding drops until the last drop you added does not make a color change.

Janet

[Lewis Seguin]

A little confused. Would that be FC or CC or do i ad the two to get a total number? Also is it swimable or should i keep people out til it gets better? Thanks...

[Watermom]

Your shock level will be FC but some of it will quickly become CC as the chlorine is fighting algae. I'd keep people out for now while you are shocking and the water is cloudy. Having said that, shock level won't hurt people but may damage swimwear, so if you do decide to swim, wear old suits.

Like Jan said, the more often you can test and take the chlorine back up to 25, the faster this is gonna clear. There is no such thing as testing and dosing too often. Every couple of hours is fine, won't hurt a thing and will clear it faster.

[Lewis Seguin]

So i tested the FC and CC and i got this
FC- 4.6
CC- 0.4
For FC it is 0.2 X 23 drops = 4.6 so that number needs to be 25?
this is why i paid for lifetime membership. Lol...Lewis

[Watermom]

Yep. You got it. It needs to be taken up to 25ppm. By the way, just use the 10ml sample for your tests. It will give you within 0.5ppm accuracy which is plenty good enough and it will make your reagents last longer.

[Lewis Seguin]

Thank you. Will bringing that up to 25 help with the stains in the liner? Last fall we paid the pool co over 400.00 to close pool and 300.00 to open this spring and i was not here in the fall and they did not clean it. I spent days dragging out leaves, bugs, and unidentified things out of the pool which i believe left stains. This pool was beautiful until they closed it.

[Watermom]

Time will tell if it will take care of the stains.