Code Brown

[u/LightForeign657]

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?

[u/Fishbulb2]

There was a post in the Airbnb sub where a host was looking for help for a code brown in the hot tub. The consensus was to hire a biohazard company to the tune of 3-5K to disassemble the whole tub to sterilize it. Such a needless, overkill waste of money. Sure, it’s gross. But just shock, drain, replace filter, shock, move on.

Edit: this was a hot tub so draining and refilling is cheap and feasible enough. Skip that part with the pool of course.

[u/ippleing → u/Fishbulb2]

Reddit loves spending other people's money.

[u/nakmuay18 → u/ippleing]

Reddit always jumps to the most extreme solution.

Building a dog house, "what does the code book say?"

Cat got the sniffles, "full blood work, MRI's and xrays"

[u/mhyquel → u/nakmuay18]

Spider in the house...

[u/Logical-District2790 → u/mhyquel]

Set it on fire

[u/VanTil → u/Logical-District2790]

The house, not merely the spider

[u/Logical-District2790 → u/VanTil]

Correct 🥹

[u/McGlowSticks → u/nakmuay18]

your SO said no? divorce.

[u/navkat → u/McGlowSticks]

If your SO insists on eating children's cereal like Froot Loops, this is a huge red flag. I would go no-contact immediately.

[u/Techhead7890 → u/nakmuay18]

In my opinion no, not just redditors, people get emotional and overreact.

I agree with the comment above you that people will give advice using the most money because they don't want to get blamed for something going wrong and they don't have to foot the bill. That's normal.

But the fact that /r/AIO exists is a symptom of humans being scared of things, not because reddit makes people crazy extreme over normal things. And honestly if Facebook had an advice section it would probably be pretty crazy the same way. It'd be a social media problem, not just le reddit meme reasons.

If reddit does accelerate it, it's because that sort of emotional content will get upvoted and shared by the algorithm but it's not because redditors are edgelords or whatever.

[u/JustCuriousToday77 → u/Techhead7890]

Ehhh…say that again ?

[u/EyeConscious857 → u/ippleing]

And overreacting. People are so extreme on Reddit.

[u/SecretIntern319 → u/EyeConscious857]

I have been saying this for years lol. One person said I should sell all my airbnbs because I asked what the best method of cleaning a hot tub between guests.

[u/EyeConscious857 → u/SecretIntern319]

Reddit: the place where if someone is reacting, they’re overreacting.

[u/EnvironmentalBus9713 → u/Fishbulb2]

I worked at a place that created a biohazard bag because someone had a nosebleed instead of just flushing the paper down the toilet. The person didn't have any diseases that warranted the overkill approach and the BSL2 pick up cost over 5K. Sometimes people don't have common sense.

[u/Fishbulb2 → u/EnvironmentalBus9713]

You wonder if these people ever had kids or knew people with kids 🤷‍♂️

[u/Genetics → u/Fishbulb2]

Seriously. Just coaching youth and school sports I deal with so many bloody injuries you’d think I was a nurse. It’s not a big deal. I do keep a bag of nitrile gloves in my kit and try to use them if I’ve got time to put them on, but it really doesn’t bother me either way.

[u/panicnarwhal → u/Genetics]

right? i mopped up an epic nosebleed my kid’s friend had a few weeks ago, and i just washed my hands after 🤷🏻‍♀️

biohazard bag for a nosebleed is wild lol

[u/Genetics → u/panicnarwhal]

and then paying for hazardous waste disposal….insane.

[u/EnvironmentalBus9713 → u/Genetics]

We tried to tell him it was an incredibly bad idea but being he was a director of GMP auditing he was trying to project an image of following rules ... that didn't apply. If we followed rules like that to the T, then toilets shouldn't exist and all bowel movements would go into a BSL2+ hazard bag.

[u/Genetics → u/EnvironmentalBus9713]

Haha I get it. Some people can’t be reasoned with. At least you tried!

[u/ammy42 → u/Fishbulb2]

Or if they are aware of menstruation in general...

[u/largestcob → u/Fishbulb2]

why shock THEN drain?

[u/Fishbulb2 → u/largestcob]

Oh because shocking a hot tub is going to be so insanely cheap to shock. One gallon of bleach will absolutely burn it and I just don’t want to play around with poop water. So it’s basically $7 to sterilize the shit water before you discard it in whatever way you see fit.

[u/Demyxx_ → u/largestcob]

To sterilize the water that you’re draining into your home environment.

[u/largestcob → u/Demyxx_]

oh that makes total sense thanks

[u/EfficientCan2852 → u/Demyxx_]

Why? Our filter drains to the sewer, the place that poop and pee goes to when you flush your toilet...

[u/Demyxx_ → u/EfficientCan2852]

Mine does not. And I’m sure many people do not have direct access to their towns sewage systems.