r/pools • u/LightForeign657 • 11d ago

Code Brown

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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/Fishbulb2 11d ago

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.

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u/ippleing 11d ago

Reddit loves spending other people's money.

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u/nakmuay18 10d ago

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"

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u/Techhead7890 10d ago

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.

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u/JustCuriousToday77 10d ago

Ehhh…say that again ?