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    Help! Cloudy pool!

    my pool is clear!!! thanks for all your help. i "think" (after reading up and all the help here in the post), my problems were my DE filter and FC level. apparently, i don't know how to properly shock the pool. after dumping a lot of clorox and running the filter over night, the pool...
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    Help! Cloudy pool!

    i use dichlor as shock and trichlor for the floater. i'm suspecting that my calcium hardness come from DE. in a desperate effort to clean this pool up, i backwash it weekly, and fill buckets of DE afterward. every time after backwash, there's this continuous stream of whitish powder jet out...
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    Help! Cloudy pool!

    thanks for all the reply. after i finished up my posting yesterday, i realized that 1) my chlorine is gone ;-( 2) my calcium is very high ;-(( i'm now trying to bring up the chlorine before other things. but wondering is it time for me to replace my water since my calcium is so high? if i...
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    Help! Cloudy pool!

    one more question that i forgot to ask. my DE filter start at 20 psi when it turned on, but hikes up to 30 psi after 5minutes in operation. is this normal? thanks a lot for your help,
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    Help! Cloudy pool!

    the pool was cloudy before i went on a trip for 2 weeks. while i'm out, the water dropped below the filter intake, so it wasn't filtering for weeks. and also run out of chlorine tab for sure. i came home to this green pool that i can not even see my first step, which is about 1 ft deep ... so...