Chemical Help

[PoolDoc]

Hope this changes soon, I hate my pool!!!. Water still cloudy but slowly improving.

Pools are easy . . . but only if you don't let them get messed up. Everybody does, sooner or later. But, use this to encourage yourself to avoid such problems in the future: avoiding is MUCH easier than fixing!

I haven't checked your pool volume (can you put your pool info in YOUR signature? the link is in MY signature), but it looks like you might want to add some borax.

[mreesept]

I have added 4 boxes of Borax over the last week and the pool has stayed between 7.0 and 7.2.

My pool is 22,000 gal 18 x 36 in ground

[mreesept]

UPDATE:

Finally getting there.... water still cloudy, can see up to about 5 feet deep

FC: 5.5
CC: 1.0
pH 7.2
TA 160

My pH keeps dropping???? I have added box after box of Borax, any thoughts???

[PoolDoc]

Don't worry about what your pH is doing right now. Just add borax as needed. Once you have a stable pool -- no algae; no particular chlorine demand -- THEN we can look at lowering your alkalinity, and stabilizing your pH.

But, first things first!

[mreesept]

Am I close to being out of this mess with a CC of 1?? I have used about 25# of 3" pucks and too many gal of beach to even count. I have bought all of the local stores out of borax and big bottles of bleach. (They all look at me funny when I come to the store daily for 2 boxes of Borax and 4 bottles of bleach)

Today I had a low FC of .5 and CC of 1 but I put in 5 gal of bleach and now have a FC of 6 and CC of 1.

Recently I have added at least 10 boxes of Borax, but my pH still is at 7-7.2. Water still cloudy.

Thanks for the help.

[PoolDoc]

The way to tell is to look and see what happens overnight. If you have 6 ppm at 7 or 8 PM your time, and still have at least 5 ppm tomorrow morning . . . you are probably close to done.

[mreesept]

Still not there. FC still dropping to 2-3 at times. CC still at 1.5 and pH at 7.0 no matter how much borax I throw at it.