Sudden cloudiness

[Watermom]

You've got to get that pH up before you leave town. Get it to 7.6 or so. Add borax, wait 2 hours, retest, redose until you get it there. 7.0 is too low. If it drops any lower, the water will become acidic and can damage your pool. Take it up to around 7.6. No higher than 7.8.

[SalemCastles]

Since you haven't been measuring . . . .

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In this post, DurhamHouses took some positions contrary to the 'standard' advice we give here. He might be right . . . but our policy has long been that if you want to contradict our standard advice, you may do so in the China Shop. There, you can argue it out to your heart's content.

And . . . if you prove your point, we'll change.

But, we do not do those debates in the middle of threads, where we're trying to help someone.

So . . . his thread, and subsequent replies have all been moved to this thread:
http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?13588
in the China Shop.

Sincerely,

Ben Powell

[Watermom]

I respectfully disagree. Raise it before you leave town or else have your dad do it.

[aylad]

I agree with Watermom. You risk doing damage to your pool if your pH get below 7.0. It won't take long, or much effort, to raise it.

Janet

[waterbear]

Since you have a vinyl pool Aylad and Watermom are right on the money...get the pH up now.
pH below 7.0 can and will damage vinyl liners.

I think a more important question is how did your pH and TA get as low as it did? Normally that is seen with the use of Trichlor, Dihlor, and or MPS (non chlorine shock) AND not monitoring TA and pH since these acidic chemicals deplete both but since you have no CYA in your water that indicates that you have not used either trichlor or dichlor since they both add CYA to the water and you indicated you shock with sodium hypochlrite (bleach). Do you add acid to your pool and if so do you do it without testing pH?

[aylad]

Our point exactly. But since the OP won't be there to correct his pH if it drops, it's safer to correct it before he leaves. There is obviously something driving his pH down, so there 's no guarantee it won't keep falling, possibly to the point where damage is done to his liner.

[Barry J]

This is the "OP", whatever that means.. My vaca was not ruined, i got back and with my dada maintainence , i tested the water , and my cl and ph levels were still good, tomorrow on my day off, I'll check all the levels again, thanks for all the help ....and entertainment from the last couple of posts.
My kids are happy to be back in their pool, where there are no sharks and jellyfish.
Thanks again
Barry