Need help with cloudy water in brand new pool

[chem geek]

Liquid chlorine is the same as bleach except that it is more concentrated. Typically, bleach is 5% or 6% strength while liquid chlorine is typically 12.5% Your SWG should generate chlorine automatically, but perhaps it's not doing so fast enough or perhaps the contractor wants you to add more chlorine to shock the pool. As for adding more chlorine, that may or may not clear up your cloudiness, depending on what the source of the cloudiness is. Nevertheless, you do need to have more than the 0 FC you reported!

Having a vinyl liner (and not having any exposed grout or plaster anywhere) just means you do not need to add calcium to your pool so your Calcium Hardness (CH) will be low or close to zero.

[Jeffski]

After reading some other posts it sounds like I'm wasting my time adding chlorine/beach without having it stabilized with CYA. My wife is picking up a test kit today...hopefully that will help me. I'll post results. Test strips are saying ALK and PH are good but FC is almost zilch. Water is very cloudy.

[aylad]

Until you can get the stabilizer in the pool (which I would do immediately--it takes 4-6 days for it to completely dissolve, and you're going to have to add bleach daily to keep some chlorine in the pool until the stabilizer is there to help) you can at least add your bleach in the evening, so it has the whole night to work on the pool before the sun comes up. THe longer you wait to get it shocked, the worse the problem is going to get, and the longer it will take to clear it up.

Janet

[Jeffski]

And you recommending adding it using the sock hung by the steps, right?

[aylad]

You can do it that way....I usually add mine through the skimmer and just don't backwash for at least a week. Either way works.

Janet

[Jeffski]

Yeah that sounds easier. Just dump in the skimmer? How much? In one shot or a little over a few days.

Thanks again for all the help.

[Jeffski]

Finally performed 5 way test kit:

PH 7.7
CL over 5.0 is all I can tell for certain.
CYA 60
ALK Over 140 I guess. I got to 14 drops without it changing.
Hardness seems to be zero as far as I can tell.

What now?