Unable to maintain chlorine levels

[duraleigh]

Medstudy,

You seem to be bypassing the advice to put chlorine in your pool. Is there a reason for that? Is your water still clear?

Nevertheless, I would suggest you raise your Cl in the evening to 30ppm. Then retest the next morning. If you have lost more than around 2-3ppm, you have lost it to organics in the pool and you must keep killing them.

Bring it back up to around 25-30 each evening 'til your Cl holds overnight and then let it drift down into 4-8ppm range. That cure the issue. To do this correctly you will need a test kit that tests Cl for levels that high and accurate calculations and dosage to obtain the proper level.

[medstudy]

I put 8 lbs of shock today. I checked the level about 2 hours later and it was >5.0ppm so Iam hoping I am there. I will let you know tomorrow. The water continues to be clear, I think because I am being active at putting the shock in.

[medstudy]

This morning the chlorine level was undetectable. I went to the Wal-Mart and bought 10 one gallon jugs of the generic bleach which is 6% sodium hypochlorite. I put in 6 gallons. We will see what happens!

[waterbear]

That should bring you up to 18 ppm chlorine....check your chlorine levels througout the day and if they drop add more bleach. You have to keep doing this until the chlorine is holding...it might take a lot of bleach.

[medstudy]

Just an update. I put 6 gallons of the 6%bleach in this am at about 10am. I rechecked the levels at 3pm and they were down to zero. I only had 4 gallons left so I put it in. It sounds like I am going to have to make another dash to the Wal-Mart

[waterbear]

Keep it up and you will find that you solve the problem!

[medstudy]

Well, I am still keeping up the fight, but now a new problem.

I am leaving to go out of town for 7 days and I still don't have a stable concentration yet. ( I put in another 6 gallons today). What would you guys do? I have an automatic cover (saftey cover) for the pool. I was thinking about just covering it for the 7 days and leaving it alone. I just can't afford a pool man yet and we don't know any of our neighbors yet (we just moved in).