Swg

[y0manda]

I have a basic taylor drop test kit that I picked up from leslies when I added water in my pool about 1.5 months ago. Today I had came home and used it to check my chlorine, and PH. It shows that there is no chlorine, and my ph went up to 8.2, dumping in about 3/4 gallons should bring it down some, if not more than enought well see. not sure exactly (because im new to this - CYA) I added about 4 lbs of conditioner to the pool a few weeks ago and had it checked last week at leslies and it was still kinda low so I added about another lb. of conditioner to bring it up. I do however need to get a complete tayler test kit. Would my swg not be working correctly since it's not showing any chlorine? I do not have anymore liquid chlorine or I would dump some in now, all we have here at the house is 2 gallons of chlorox bleach, I have never used bleach in the pool yet or before so I'm not sure if its even a good idea to try it or what kind to use. thanks again

[guild1]

Use your bleach, get the bleach calculator off this website to tell you how much, and it's probably not showing any chlorine because it is all being used up by combining with icky stuff and becoming combined chlormines. You will need to shock your pool by adding chlorine, preferably bleach, to your water until you get rid of any combined chlormines, then you will be able to tell if your SWG is working and making chlorine.

[aylad]

It shows that there is no chlorine, and my ph went up to 8.2, dumping in about 3/4 gallons should bring it down some, if not more than enought well see. not sure exactly (because im new to this - CYA) I added about 4 lbs of conditioner to the pool a few weeks ago and had it checked last week at leslies and it was still kinda low so I added about another lb. of conditioner to bring it up.

I'm not sure I understand this--what did you add 3/4 gallons of? Hoping it's muriatic acid instead of CYA--CYA will not lower your pH--it's the same thing as conditioner.

Janet

[y0manda]

heh yeah acid