Sanity Check...

[duraleigh]

Hi, Doc,

Wow, those are interesting numbers. I'm afraid most of us, including me, have no experience with indoor pools and I cannot explain that high CC. It was very revealing that you were able to eliminate with one dose of 15ppm chlorine.

I'm pretty sure you need absolutely no CYA in an indoor pool. How did it get there?

Fine to swim in. Might fade a suit or two. Since it's indoors, skinny-dipping would save the suits.

Final thought.......since you overshot a little on the Cl and you certainly appear quite accurate on your tests, I would suspect the pool may not hold as much water as you are calculating.

Wish I could help more but thanks for posting....very interesting.

[Dr. Spike]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply!

The only thing I can think of that could have added the CYA was the pucks that I started using before I found this site and the BBB method. It had CYA=0 when I first tested and opened the pool. I didn't think that I needed much if any from the posts that I have read and it being basically an indoor pool.

I thought the CC numbers were interesting as well, so I thought I would see if anyone might know of a cause.

After reading some more, I decided that I would go for a swim, water was COLD at first but it felt great. No irritation at all with that level of TC. I could not even smell it. I think it was the cleanest pool that I have swam in in a long time.

That was my guess too as for the size of the pool. I guess I will have to take some string and dive for measurements, then do some math.

Skinny dipping is the way to go. I don't have to worry about frightening the neighbors or have the local police handing me a towel and giving me a ticket.

(Edited for typo)