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Hello all, my 2012 Hayward pump for my 21 foot above ground pool started tripping my breaker yesterday after years of running fine. It runs for about 3-5 then trips breaker. I checked all my wiring from my shed to outdoor covered plug and discovered that the plug was sooted and the recep was...

Tks Mike the stain comes off with the vitamin c tab and when we first tested we did have iron but according to the "pool store people" there may be such a minuscule amt that the test won't show but there still could be iron once u add bleach/chlorine. We put two puck floaters in 0 FC and after a...

Tks, yes was a typo on the FC, and yes they sure are, makes one want to fill this old pool with some dirt and make a vegetable garden or an aquatic habitat for frogs

Thought I would give an update on this pool. We have cleared it with another ascorbic acid treatment after doing about a 3/4 pool water replacement over several days. We cleaned sand filter over that period several times. Iron tested at two different pool stores with the water clear and blue...

Thought I would just show some pics of how the iron returned to the walls and how a vitamin C tablet cleared some of it. I am going to crush some 3 dollar a bottle vitamins in a food processor as an experiment, should take about 3 bottles for the pool size. I know it will return without...

Tried draining half in two segments and refilling over three days with iron free city water, the same one that i use in my pool, it's no go, the minute I slowly raised the bleach by 1 ppm a day and I got to 3, it redeposited the stains just not as bad. Ph at 7.1 - 7.2 and has remained there...

ok that would be a little better, just keep draining a refilling until we could get most of it out

Ok tks, I guess that might be the way to go, drain the pool since I probably will never get the iron out, just kinda worries me to take all the water out, heard horror stories of draining a fiberglass pool all the way out and the water table pops it out the ground. I dont think just slow water...

tks for the nfo on the PH, I did not mean to get it that high, I plugged 40 in the caculator and 7.0 in ph using target of 100 and target of 7.2 for ph, I added what it told me to add, one box borax and 200 something ozs of baking soda. So at this point I should SLAM it until the criteria is...

Been trying to help my sister with her 16000 gallon fiberglass pool built in the 80s, she allowed it to get real bad full of leaves and basically a dark brown soup. So once I did the clean up, removing two years of leaves,with the water still dark brown I brought it to shock level for several...

That's what mine did too, I had to hit it twice when I thought I had killed it. That's why even though you don't see it and looked clear, it came back when you caned down on the levels. Even though the pool school shock suggested to leave it at mustard shock for 24 hours, I left it for 48. Again...

I know seems at first like nothing's happening that why the experts in here maintain shocking is a process not a one day event. At least it's good to see your CYA is on the way down.

You will get the hang of it, I was terrible with it at first too, and that's not that long ago. Some people test theirs at the beginning of summer and the middle without losing much. I have to test mine way more often because of water evap and then our occasional afternoon thunderstorms that can...

Glad to hear that, just follow the CYA chart and dont let the FC get below the min according to the CYA level you have. Also watch your PH once you get below FC 10, anything above that can give fluctuating PH readings and not be true.

Great, keep us posted, hopefully that will get it. On mine I had some dead stuff at the bottom I had to vacuum to waste and then repeatedly DE'd my sandfilter to clear the water. Once it was dead it took about two days and at least 5 backwashings to clear it.

Don't sell your house, just the pool!!! Just kidding, I know it's frustrating as heck just follow the steps and you have a head start because you have that DE filter whereas I had enhance my sand with DE to eventually get it clean. Just once you mustard shock it make sure you get it all. I did...

Tks, especially for my son and wife who are shorter than me, makes it a whole lot easier than dragging a step ladder around

Here is a picture I just took of it going on 5 days no problems, (knock on wood) [attachment=1:yk142txa]pool2.jpg[/attachment:yk142txa] Here is a little 2 x 6 wood platform I built to help go around the pool and get test water, vacuum, remove leaves etc, this helps alot when you dont have the...

For sure if you take it out and you drill your holes, blast some water in the holes and or the legs with this type nozzle [attachment=0:1gy0foz0]759a20db-edfc-4816-a8c5-6530c5b55cf3_300.jpg[/attachment:1gy0foz0] if you do have green in your ladder you cant watch it spurt out and that will be...

What part of the country are you in?, I am Louisiana and our heat and humidity is terrible and helps the algae grow in anything. As the others have said too, the test kit is essential whenever you are able to get it, along with learning pool school. Before I built my pool I had the same exact...

Yeah it was rough but I am reaping the benefits of the work now, its one of those things where I followed everything to the letter keeping everything in range, but it still bit me. It aint supposed to be that hard to have a pool I was beginning to think I was cursed, but all good now and going...

Ditto what Butterfly said, I just cleared some mustard algae from mine. Wash everything, me and the wife took a diluted mixture of clorox and water and scrubbed the pool tools too, I ran clorox through the hose after vacumming to waste!!! I found that I had to brush three or four times a day to...

Lol I might need a bigger pool for everyone to fit!!! I hate to go and tell them the wrong thing, you guys know way more than me, but feel free to link them to this post which may help them when they have just about given up like I did. Thats kinda why I did the play by play so they could see...

Tks alot, blood, sweat, and tears to get rid of that mustard, so hopefully it's now dead and I can move on

So far the polyquat 60 looks like its doing it's work, only a few bugs, grains of sand, and dark brown dirt here and there, etc. put the FC to 8 last night and tonight with the daily sun it burned down to 5, now there is a 3 inch puck floating around for some more CYA and keeping a little...