Opening pool early and possible leak

[fiveUNDERfive]

What's the best way then to determine chlorine when it's above 5? The water is looking more cloudy but I'm hoping that's bc I stirred up the dust. Hoping to vacuum when hubby gets home. Shall I keep adding bleach? Until the water is clear again? I'm going to need CYA too at some point but I think I need to clear out the brown stuff first, right?

[PoolDoc]

Do the HTH 6-way tests, and report them. If the OTO (chlorine) color is darker or different than the kit, say what color it is.

[Watermom]

You can also do a dilution to make your kit read higher than 5. It isn't super accurate but better than nothing. It is also not meant as a permanent way to test high chlorine levels. But, it may help you out for now.

Testing Without a Good Kit

[aylad]

Just to add a comment--it's normal to get falsely high pH readings when your chlorine is that high, so don't worry about it for now if you know that it's over 7.0.

[fiveUNDERfive]

Ok. Just tested now. Nothing put in since about 11.

TC - orange (like the skin of a real ripe orange)
pH - around 7.8 I think
TA - is it sposed to stay pink? Put in 20 drops and saw color change but if I swirled it didn't stay pink
CYA - out of Reagant and Wally only had red/yellow Reagant repl