Help! Too much bleach during conversion!

[duraleigh]

Almost surely you have not hurt your liner. (Thought I'd be positive 'cause there's nothing anyone can do, anyway)

Seriously, I'll bet you're fine.

I think it would be very instructive to many of us if you could post your Cl reading tomorrow AM. Please let us know

[poolgal13]

Thanks for the encouragement--I feel like an idiot for first converting to Baquacil (the Pool Life magazine made it sound so great) and then accidently typing in the wrong # for the calculation. Right now I'm draining out some water so I replace it with new. Probably should have done that first.

I will post my readings in the morning. Very scared right now!

[poolgal13]

Almost forgot--and no laughing, please--my pool is just a pop-up, 3000 gallon. I used the 6% bleach and put in 174 ounces, should have put in 102 ounces. It's not quite double, but who's counting at this point! The pool is a murky, greenish blue with shiny stuff floating on top. My husband is such a sweetie, he said if the pool is ruined we'll just get another one.

[waterbear]

be sure to get a bunch of the disposable filters for it. You will need them as the conversion goos them up!

[poolgal13]

I can't believe that my level is 0. Where is the chlorine going???!!!

Added a gallon of bleach this morning, and will monitor it today.

Water is murky, pea green color.

I know you all talked about goop on the filter, but mine was just a gold color with no goop. I was glad, since on Baquacil my filter would clog in a few hours. But, does this mean not enough reaction is happening?

[mbar]

It's eating up the baquacil - keep dosing the pool with bleach - check it as often as you can, bring it back to shock levels and be consistant - the more consistant you are the faster your pool will clear. Good luck!

[CarlD]

See? You didn't hurt your pool! You need to KEEP dosing it with bleach...though with a 3000 gallon popup, why didn't you just drain and refill, and then dose it with bleach?