Benny

CYA is WAY TOO HIGH SWCG=salt water chlorine generator Ok...sooooo...what do I do now?

As far as the CYA goes, what I meant was when I put the treated cloudy water into the CYA tube, the black dot wasn't visible after only adding a small amount, so small that it didn't even reach the 100 mark, which I'm guessing it means it was way OVER 100. What is a SWCG?

Here are test results from Taylor kit: PH = 7.0. Took 11 drops of R0006 to get to 7.4 Free chlorine = .2ppm Combined chlorine = .6ppm Alkalinity = 90ppm Calcium hardness = 370ppm CYA = did not even get close to registering at 100 ppm mark. Water temp = 84 degrees.

Does the cloudiness dissipate in a bit or does it stay? If it is dissipating quickly then it is probably bubbles from either a suction side leak or pump cavitation. If it does not and it's actually junk going back in the pool then your filter is in need of repair. I know in another post you were overdosong on metal remover. This can sometimes precipitate calcium phosphnate that will cloud the water and is almost impossible to filter out. If you can vacuum to waste then sometimes you can use a flocculant, let it settle, and then carefully vacuum most of it to waste. As far as how often to backwash, you should backwash when the pressure gauge has risen 8 psi from the last backwash ir whatever pressure rise the manufacturer of your filer recommends. No guesswork involved here at all. Let me first say that I really appreciate your help...thx. Cloudiness did not dissipate so did flocculant (is clarifier the same thing?) and vacummed to waste. Cleared to acceptable level but not crystal clear (my standard). I'm waiting on arrival of test kit you recommended to get chem levels to post here. One other question. I bought this house with pool 7 years ago. Even the pool service guys had trouble managing cloudiness from time to time and one of them mentioned that mabye the sand needed to be replaced in the filter. I have no idea how long the sand has been in there but I know it hasn't been changed in 7 years and pool service guy said he never changed it for at least a few years before I bought the pool/house. Any ideas on sand life or is that another forum?

As soon as I turned on pump, water became cloudy within a minute. Does this mean filter needs to be backwashed? Little wary of backwashing too much because someone told me too much backwashing defeats the purpose of better filtration. Any advice? Thanks.

Ok, will do. Thanks for the advice, will respond when I get the kit and results. Glad I've found this forum, it just seemed like I was adding too many chemicals. Thanks again.

New guy to pool maintenance. I'm using the Pooltime website, testing kit and products. Since taking over maintenance from pool service I test chemical balance. From the beginning and the last 4 weeks the test results indicate I should add 2 quarts of Metal, Stain and Scale out. I've added 8 quarts so far and today it's asking for 2 more. Does this sound right? Pool is 20k gallons. If I don't do this, what danger do I face? I also notice there is calcium builup on waterline tiles, is this because the water has been too hard? Thanks in advance for replies.

Great! Ok, I think I changed it correctly...Ha!...we'll see. Very good video, you'd think the Pentair rep would have pointed me to it. Thank you very much for your help. Can you also point me in right direction to get info on chemicals? I'm using Pooltime website and their products but not sure it's correct. Seems I'm adding lots of shock and Metal Scale Control treatments, but don't mind if they are really necessary. Thanks again!

Thanks for reply. 'Program' is not an option from Menu. There are only six options when you hit Menu: Settings, Speed 1-8, Ext control, Features, Priming, Anti-freeze. None of these options has program under it. It's kind of strange, to set a scheduled start and stop time you have to select 'Speed 1-8' and then select 'Schedule'. Whoever designed this user interface had no computer ergonomic background.

Hi, new to this forum. Have a Intelliflo VS+ SVRS pump. Just took over maint of pool from a pool service, got a lot of learning to do. My question is, it appears that the pool service programmed pump to come on certain times of day. I setup a time, 0600-1200 but it also comes on at other times. I ask Pentair helpdesk how to delete a scheduled time and they only told me to 'zero out' the schedule but I don't see where that option is in the manual. Anyone know how to delete or zero out a schedule so I can start all over again? Thanks.