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Hey Pool Owners Are you adding the wrong amount of shock to your pool? A regular dose of chlorine shock is one pound per 10 000 gallons of water. But if you've got algae starting to form in your water or your combined chlorine levels are high, you'll want to double that. And if you've got serious issues like dark green water, you'll need a triple dose. Shocking with a regular dose once a week can help prevent these problems from happening in the first place.
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I need help ,I’ve shocked my deep green pool so many times trou out these 2 past weeks and it’s not getting blue at all I feel like I’m just wasting my money on it with no results
I never shock my pool. I just add liquid chlorine when needed. I use about 1 gallon some times 2 a week. Depends on how quickly the sun eats it up. I keep my CYA at 40 ppm. Easy peasy.
How come no you tube channels or pool centers tell people to use Oxidizer to get rid of Combined Chlorine (Chloramines).
They all say use regular shock, 10 times the amount of CC (Chloramines) you have, well that isn't good enough, what if the people miss the right amount by just one bag, well they just made the CC (Chloramines) worse. They never give examples so the people will understand and actually be able to get rid of CC.
The main reason is to sell more product. They all say add shock buy TRUST ME AND DON'T ADD SHOCK, ADD OXIDIZER.
If you have CC (Chloramines) add an Oxidizer to your water (deep end). It kills up to the amount you add and gets rid of that amount of CC where as if you use regular shock and dont add enough to kill ALL the CC (Chloramines) then you just added more CC (Chloramines) to your water and pool centers dont really explain this to you so they can sell you more product and have you needing them to get their pool water clear.
Just add Oxidizer, a non chlorine Oxidixer shock will work. Try to figure out how much to add and if you can't get it down to the right ppm of Oxidizer you need, just add slowly until your water is not cloudy anymore then test your CC (Chloramines). I guarantee they will be gone!!!!!!!!!
I have always mixed my pool shock in a 5-gallon bucket, then disperse it throughout, mostly the deep end.
Lately the dry shock that I get says “do not pre-mix.” But it leaves a lot of residue at the bottom of the pool — which can bleach and damage our in ground pool liner… and is more work to disperse it with the brush.
Why is that and what happens if I mix it in my bucket anyway? I’m usually very cautious about breathing in the fumes while pouring and mixing the dry shock. Also, I’ve always been curious as to whether dry pool shock is any better than liquid chlorine shock. I purchase LC by the case.
Thank you for any assistance. You might give me in this regard.
What if I do more than I'm supposed to? Service area Nepean??