I did some testing today... Am I moving in the right direction

[peggles0224]

Well I didn't get any responses to my post yesterday and I was anxious to get going. I added more bleach last night and we dumped the old sand in the sand filter that was probably in there for two years and replaced it. I woke up this morning and took some tests... Although the water isn't crystal clear, we finally saw the bottom of the pool... So I thought we might be 90% there. Here's the testing I did:

CL = 5.0
PH = 7.0
ALK = 90

Then I added Borax and followed up with the stabilizer. Waited a couple of hours and got these results:

CL = 3.5
PH = 7.2
ALK = 100
CYA = 30

We swam in it for the first time after these results. How refreshing it was. I know some of the numbers are borderline. I have to go buy more stabilizer, but I am so happy to come so far.

Thank you all for your help = Peggy and = Jim

[tundraSQ]

11 gallons of bleach and 12 "units" of 12.5% megashock and you have a FC level of 5....that makes no sense to me. You have a pool that is a 1/3 the size of mine and for every gallon I add I get about a 2ppm increase in FC. That leads me to believe your level would be about 100ppm at least....am I missing something?

[medvampire]

Tundra
You not missing something. If there are enough organics in the water you could burn off that amount of chlorine.
Steve