Where do you find what your pool should test at?

[sevver]

The best way to use bleach is to just pour it in the pool in front of the return water flow. Every time you use a puck you increase your CYA level which in turn increases the amount of chlorine it takes to keep your pool sanitary, eventually you end up with algae that you have to really douse with chlorine to kill. And as far as algae goes, the only algaecide that the people here use has the word polyquat (sp?) in the ingredients, any thing else just puts garbage like copper in your water. Why not post up a set of numbers so that someone can guide you, also tell how big your pool is, how many gallons etc. Good luck, once you get going it is a breeze, I just dump in around a half gallon of bleach a day basically for my pool. Also around once per week I add about two cups of Muratic Acid to lower the Ph back down. It is that simple.

[TammyH442]

I am truly sorry it has taken so long to reply to this, I have had a huge mess here at home a 100 year old tree has dropped 3 sections on my home and totalled my roof, outside and in, a real mess. I have also had a bunch of limbs, leaves and dirt in my pool, it is relatively clean compared to the mess my home will go through.
I have a 24' round above ground which I have calculated to hold 20,000 gallons. I have not tested the water in over a week due to the above. Sorry. I will do so today and get some numbers to post up here, I have never recieved a test booklet with the kit I ordered from Ben so, testing is go by the instructions, write down what I get, and not know if it is close to where it should be? Will give you those number this evening. Thanks, Tammy

[CarlD]

Tammy:
At the top of this forum topic and others, are stickied threads. Have you read them? What didn't you understand? Perhaps I can help you understand them: I wrote several. It comes down to 3 steps:

1) Keep you pH in the good range.
2) Know how much stabilizer (CYA or Cyanuric Acid) you have in your pool, measured in PPM--Parts Per Million. If you have 1 liter of stabilizer and 1 million liters of water, you have 1 PPM. If you have 1 milli-liter of CYA and you have 1,000 liters you have 1 ppm--Part Per MILLION.
3) for your level of CYA, know how much chlorine you need to keep in your pool and keep it there. It's in Ben's Best Guess table.

You do that with a clean pool and it will stay clean all summer. That's all there is.

[Watermom]

Tammy,
If you have a 24 ft above ground pool, it is nowhere near 20,000 gallons. It is more like 12,000-13,500 gallons depending on whether you have 48" wall height or 52" wall height.