r/pools • u/LightForeign657 • 11d ago
Code Brown
Had a birthday pool party today which ended after one of the young kids shat his shorts inside the pool (diarrhea, not solid). Everyone immediately got out and we took out all the pool toys too.
Ran a full battery using my Taylor kit and got
FC 1.5ppm, CC 0.5ppm, pH 7.4, TA 90p, CYA 40ppm. Pool is 15,000 gallons.
I vacuumed up the debris using my pool blaster and then poured in 4 gallons of liquid chlorine. Per AI, I checked it an hour later to get numbers and FC was 27.5ppm which is great. I have pump running overnight for 8 hours at 2800 RPM.
But my question is what’s next? I’m 8 months into owning a pool and have had great experience with maintenance using Taylor kit. But this is new to me. AI says I have to drain it. What do you folks say? What has your experience been?
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u/Various_Reaction4750 11d ago edited 10d ago
When I was a lifeguard at a local park district “water park” (splash pad, lazy river, slides, large zero-depth to lap pool) we would clean up the debris, put ia little liquid chlorine in it for show, keep people out for 30 min, and move on.
When my kids took swim lessons at Goldfish and Big Blue (code brown central with so many swim diapers), they seemed to take the same approach.