New pool installed and filled with water - Now what?

[BigDave]

It'll take a week for stabilizer to dissolve. How much CYA did you buy?

[Firstpool]

It'll take a week for stabilizer to dissolve. How much CYA did you buy?

I got 4 lbs.

Thanks for your help today. I have 1 gal of bleach, and all my salt in it and now I just let the pump run and wait. I will test chemistry tomorrow and see what it needs.

[BigDave]

That's plenty of CYA.
Give the pool a good brushing to mix everything.
Start with about a pound - pound and a half of stabilizer, put it in an old sock or nylon and hang it in front of the return. Give the sack a squeeze now and again to help it dissolve. Wait till early next week (sock should be empty and K-2006 should be in your hands) and test CYA.
Keep chlorine around 5 in the meatime. Run your SWCG when it's ready but test every day and add bleach as necessary.
The amount of CYA you'll need depends mostly on how much sun your pool gets and how warm it is. This forum usually reccommends 40-50PPM CYA for manually dosed pools. Often, SWCG manufacturers recommend a CYA level (check your manual), it's usually best to run your CYA at the top of the manufaturer's range. Be sure to adjust your FC goal for your CYA level based on Ben's Best Guess Chart.
Let us know how it's going.

[Firstpool]

That's plenty of CYA.
Give the pool a good brushing to mix everything.
Start with about a pound - pound and a half of stabilizer, put it in an old sock or nylon and hang it in front of the return. Give the sack a squeeze now and again to help it dissolve. Wait till early next week (sock should be empty and K-2006 should be in your hands) and test CYA.
Keep chlorine around 5 in the meatime. Run your SWCG when it's ready but test every day and add bleach as necessary.
The amount of CYA you'll need depends mostly on how much sun your pool gets and how warm it is. This forum usually reccommends 40-50PPM CYA for manually dosed pools. Often, SWCG manufacturers recommend a CYA level (check your manual), it's usually best to run your CYA at the top of the manufaturer's range. Be sure to adjust your FC goal for your CYA level based on Ben's Best Guess Chart.
Let us know how it's going.

Sounds good. Thank you.

[Firstpool]

Tested chlorine this morning before leaving for work.
IT immed turned bright orange! Ooops. Am I correct in thinking that the orange color means the chlorine is really high? (prob 10-15?)
All I have in it is a gallon of bleach and 160lbs of salt so far. Nothing else. The SW generator has not been turned on yet at all.
If I leave the stabilizer out I assume the chlorine level will drop without to much delay. We'll see.

Is it possible that it is so high it could be hurting my liner?

Oh btw... I tested the pool twice (same result - both turned orange) and tested my tap water once just to be sure so I am pretty sure the test was not inaccurate.

[BigDave]

Orange on OTO indicates high chlorine.
By dead reconing, 1 gallon of 6% bleach should have brought you to about 10ppm chlorine, shock value for 0 CYA. Should be OK for your liner. I wanted to get on top of any possible algea and leave you with enough chlorine to get through the day without CYA. Let's see where you are after work. Is the pool in sun? Hows the weather?

[Firstpool]

Orange on OTO indicates high chlorine.
By dead reconing, 1 gallon of 6% bleach should have brought you to about 10ppm chlorine, shock value for 0 CYA. Should be OK for your liner. I wanted to get on top of any possible algea and leave you with enough chlorine to get through the day without CYA. Let's see where you are after work. Is the pool in sun? Hows the weather?

Great news! Thanks. I am totally comfortable with that.
The pool will get morning and mid day sun. Shade will cover it around 2pm. Weather today is partly cloudy and 65 with 10-15mph breeze.
Yup I will test it this evening when I get home and let you know. We can then decide if I should put the CYA in.
Also... Should I have it covered now or uncovered? Currently uncovered as I do not have a winter cover yet. I only have a "solar" cover.
Thank you.

[BigDave]

The CYA will take a long time to disolve so go ahead and put in a pound and a half ( should provide a little less that 30 ppm ). Put it in an old sock or stocking and hang it in front of the return. How's the water look? Still greenish?