Cloudy Pool After Adding Sodium Bicarb.
by Janice Bartee
I followed the suggestion to add Sodium bicarbonate as calcium level was high--at the top of the tester and pH was lower than could be read on the tester. After I added to sodium bicarbonate, the water got more cloudy. HELP! Thanks for the question Janice I'm kinda at a loss here because I don't have all of the information I need. What is the chemical reading for the calcium hardness? What's the bottom reading on your tester for the pH? What kind of tester are you using? Strips? Yellow OTO test kit? How big is your pool? How much bicarb. did you use? Did you have the pump running? Did you make a slurry of the bicarb.? It's hard to answer a question with so few details. But, if you did make a slurry of the sodium bicarb. it will dissipate in time and be filtered. With the pump running, you'll be increasing your pH level, but again, by not knowing the size of your pool, nor the amount of bicarb. used, it's a little difficult to say with any degree of certainty that the amount you used will increase the pH level. If you can give me more details of what exactly you did, how you did it, the pool size, amount of bicarb. etc... I'm sure I can help out. Thanks and hope to hear from you soon. Robert |
