Cloudy Pool after tons of chemicals.

[bikerdude]

The pool is an above ground 21,000 gallon capacity. It is a Pentaire single cartridge filter unit. Started with algaecide , soda ash, tons of leslies pool shock , conditioner, flock, phosfree, and on and on. I just started using regular bleach 4gallons on sunday and for the first time I have a reading which is very high. My ph was low so added Borax and it is about 6.8 . My alkalinity is very high 240. Cyanuric acid is 0. I have been using test strips.

[Watermom]

We really need some numbers taken with a drops-based kit. Refer back to the previous post I wrote for some suggestions about kits.

You need to bring your pH up. If it is reading 6.8, it could be much lower than that since that is the lowest reading that the scale will show. Any reading below 7.0 is acidic and can damage your pool. Continue adding Borax and get that pH above 7.0 ASAP.

If you have added conditioner, then you have some CYA in the pool. I don't know what ingredient is in Leslie's pool shock. It could be cal-hypo or it could be Dichlor which also adds CYA.

Keep adding bleach, get the pH up, get a kit. And, then we'll go from there.

[PoolDoc]

. . . membership upgraded.

Did you make any headway with your pool?