Recent content by Hiesman84

Yeah, sorry, I wasn't very clear...this is what I have going on now, and when i wash out the filter, it's green - I defintely have a traditional bloom going right now, no question, have had lots of them, know what to do, etc. Likely unrelated to the gunk in the first 2 pics, though this stuff...

So this is what I have collecting on the bottom right now. Previous couple days had been pretty cloudy and only low 80s so it wasn't as bad today as it had been a couple days ago.

OK a couple things... 1) I'm not familiar with the vitamin C test, can you give me the cliffnotes/background? 2) Yeah what I'm seeing on the bottom isn't iron. Only question is if it's standard dead algae or dead mustard algae. I'll try to get a pic next time I have a bunch on the bottom...

Interesting. The stuff I find on the mat that sits under the steps, some of that takes a brush to scrub off...but everything I see sitting on the bottom i more of a blotchy powder and is easily disturbed/dispersed.

Thanks Texas. A couple interesting items and comment: There is definitely a better/worse/better cycle involved, definitely sun/temp related. Having the steps in/out certainly makes a difference, but that's not a surprise either. Stuff hides up there, pretty impossible to clean all those...

Thanks, I'll definitely put on the kids' goggles and go diving with a screw driver tomorrow and see if I can get them off. I can't imagine replacing the valve with bread shoved down a slowly flowing pvc pipe knowing I can't get them totally sealed with stuff over top of the drains, so I'll come...

interesting...what do the plugs look like? Never seen one, definitely didn't inherit any, wondering what I'm looking for. Thanks!

If it's iron, IDK where it's coming from. City water, never use an iron based algaecide, only algaecide i ever use is some Poly60 at closing. We keep a mat under the steps when they are in. Under there, the liner looks new. The rest of it all has some equal yellowing, IDK if it's sun, algae...

If not, what the heck was it? (sorry if pics are sideways, IDK what's up with that).

15x30 AGP, 2 floor drains that I don't normally use (unrelated topic). So I have the usual line that comes down from the skimmer basket, and the pipe that comes up from the ground for the floor drains. There is a Praher ball valve on each of those lines, then they come to a T joint, and that...

So I am closing my AGP for the 4th time. I've always drained it below the skimmer basket and return. And I've always had SOMETHING under the winter cover to create a hump (usually 2 semi-truck inner-tubes with a basketball taped into the middle of each to create a nice hump). For the record...

We do have pool steps and some weights to hold them down, and a mat under them - I HAVE cleaned them, but they are tough to get all the area under the steps...may be time to pull them out.