Checking to make sure I'm on the right track!

[Watermom]

It sounds like you are making progress! Keep your chlorine at shock level and run your pump 24/7 while you are working to clear it.

On a 17K pool, 2 gallons of 8.25% bleach will only add about 9.7ppm of chlorine, not 20. Were they gallons? Most bleach is sold in 121-oz. jugs which is more like 0.95 gallons. If that is what you used, it would have added about 9.2 gallons. (For future reference and to help you figure out doses, in 17K gallons, each quart of 8.25% bleach will add 1.2ppm and one of the 121-oz jugs will add about 4.6ppm.)

(By the way, no need to use the 'report post' button to alert us to see a post. Especially at 1:49 a.m.! We will definitely see it when we come back online. Thanks.)

[lauraleellbp]

Yep, you're correct, I'm using 121oz jugs. And apparently I just have a faulty memory; I just realized I'd done the math last weekend to figure out I'd need approx 2 jugs to get to about 10 ppm of chlorine, and then promptly forgot! Which explains why the pool has turned greener again in the past 2 days, I've only been adding 1/2 the chlorine I need!

So back to WallyWorld for me tonight since I used the last of my bleach last night. Glad they're open 24 hours...

Question- where do I need to keep my pH in order to break up and degas the excess kH? The pH has been climbing pretty quickly.

(And sorry- I truly wasn't expecting a reply in the middle of the night, just wasn't sure I'd put this thread in the right forum to start off with. I guess I didn't since you moved it, thanks. )