Think I've turned my pool water into bleach!!! Any serious suggestions?

[dancingfowl]

Thank you Janet. I should have stated that I did turn the SWCG off several days ago. I have a 14,000 gal vinyl liner in ground pool. I think I do already see some bleaching of the liner as a result if the chlorine level.

[aylad]

How's the chlorine level looking now? I'm assuming that you've had time to get your test kit in...

Janet

[dancingfowl]

Received my test kit and I'm not sure what is going on. I have the Taylor K-2006 kit with FAS-DPD. I used the 10ml water sample in the large tube, 2 scoops of powder (which turned pink as it should) and so far 75 drops of R-0871 but water is still very pink. I hate to waste the whole bottle of reagent. At this point I am at 75 X .5 = 37.5 ppm free chlorine. Any ideas?

[aylad]

Leave the chlorinator off, leave the pool uncovered and exposed to sun if you can, and add a dose of Polyquat--otherwise, just be happy with the fact that you won't open to algae next year!

Janet

[PoolDoc]

The good news here is that, even if your liner is somewhat lighter, it's unlikely that the liner material is actually damaged.

[waterbear]

You can get a chlorine neutralizer at the pool supply (usually a sulfite or thiosulfate based chemical) and use that but if you just leve the pool uncovered and exposed to sunlight the chloirne will eventually drop. You can also use sodium percarbonate (Proteam System Support) or hydrogen peroxide (Baqua Shock) to neutralize high chlorine levels.

[CarlD]

Yes, but as Janet says, just adding polyquat should bring chlorine levels down. I find when I shock my pool up to (say) 15ppm and then add a quart of PolyQuat, 48 hours later my FC is near zero.

Here's what I would do: Add two quarts of polyquat and get some test cheap strips or an OTO kit. Test the water every day until the strip shows FC of 10 or slightly less. Or use the OTO kit and dilute the pool water with distilled water 4:1 (4 distilled to 1 pool). When the OTO reads "5" that means TC is close to 25ppm and you can measure with your 2006 kit.