Free chlorine should be at 1-3 ppm. Ensure you wait to reenter the pool until the free-chlorine ranges have dropped back below four ppm. If algae are the main cause of your cloudy pool water, chances are you’ll need to shock the pool two or even three times to kill it all. If it is simply too low, it’s not doing its job, and LLC it may point to different problems. The added chlorine goes to work breaking down the chloramines and killing off any algae, another source of cloudy […]