cloudy water

This is our 3rd season with our vinyl, salt water pool. Our pool has always been crystal clear. As I started learning about maintaining our pool I made notes about what to adjust first if needed. This year, I noted that our CH level was 140 and the recommended level was 200-400. I bought...

Hi guys, I'm new to the forum and pool caring. Have the pool for a couple months and was taking care of it with dichlor only. And it was crystal clear. But my pH was around 7 - 7.2 and last week I added sodium carbonate to raise the pH. The same night I shocked the pool. The next day the...

I am recovered from a bad algae outbreak - now passing the overnight test (two nights in row). My TF-Pro test kit gives me: CH: 200 (goal is 300) CYA: ~20 (currently adding, goal is 40) pH: 7.5 (goal) TA: 100 (goal is 80) Shallow end is 3 (or 3.5 feet) and I can barely see the bottom the...

Not new to pool maintenance but new to TFP. We’ve had a hard time getting our pool perfectly clear this season. We can see the bottom but the water isn’t sparkling clear. After being totally fed up with the run around at the pool store and a recommendation from a family member who uses TFP we...

Over the winter the pool was admittedly neglected. By early springtime it turned into a pond complete with frogs and a few snakes and an unholy amount of debris in the bottom. We have a large elm tree that hangs right over the deep end, and every fall it dumps a ton of leaves and seed pods into...

Hello all. Added a bottle of Beautech to a pool in Indiana on 6/9/23. Water started to turn cloudy on Tuesday 6/13/23 and by Thursday 6/15 it was all the way cloudy, cant see bottom step. fiberglass pool cartridge filter I cleaned the filter on Tuesday, normal amount of debris came out. I...

Happy to be here! We are on our 2nd year with our above ground pool (18' x30' doughboy brand). Had good success last year just using chlorine to maintain nice clear water (historical evidence in my profile picture haha), but we didn't winterize properly and then had our winter cover get damaged...

Hey There, I neglected my AGP last week while I was sick with covid and when I got back to it- the water was cloudy and turning green. I tested everything, used PoolMath, and have all levels back to pretty much normal, but the water is still cloudy. I can see the pattern at the bottom of the...

I am a new pool owner (or renter to be specific), I went on vacation for a week and came back to a very green pool. I watched a video online that said to "triple shock" your pool if it is a dark green; I did so and it improved but it was still green, so I triple shocked again and now the pool...

Hello! This is our 3rd summer with a 30k gallon vinyl (?) in-ground pool of unknown age in the middle of KS surrounded by cottonwood trees. We had switched it to a SWG our first summer and replaced the sand in the sand filter with ruby sand two summers ago. Other than a few small hiccups, we’d...

We purchased an above ground 26,000 gallon vinyl pool three years ago and it was installed by the company we purchased it from. It was "beautiful" and clear and the bluest blue you could imagine the first year. We live in Nebraska where the wind blows like crazy and we only have a few days of...

I have been using TFP and the pool Math app for years without problem. I have been raising ph with Borax, but decided to use washing soda instead as it has the same effect in half of the volume. I have added in WS (arm and Hamer) twice now and both times it has turned my pool opaque. Any ideas...

So at about my breaking point with this pool so I decided to post for some help from the experts. Pool was closed by local pool store and for the first time - when I opened this year it was the greenest I've ever seen. (1st photo) I'm wondering what caused this in the first place as I had...

Hello, I opened my pool this season on May 14th for the first time after purchasing a house and the previous owner showed me how to do it. It's a 15x30 4.5ft pool with around 11k gallons. I have a cartridge filter and Simple Salt system with a copper diode. I have been running our pump...

Hello. I am new to De pools. We have a pentair FNS with multi valve. The in-laws let the pool go for about 8month with no maintenance. I was deep green with frogs occasionally in it. I started the process of shocking it, using yellow gone, chlorine, backwashing etc When we put new DE in I...

First summer in our new home with a pool. We have the tf-100 kit. Have been using the pool math app and following on here. Things have been pretty good until the last week. 25K gallon vinyl liner, Hayward t9 salt cell. Salt is 3200, TA, which we’ve been fighting all summer, is at an all time low...

Hello pool experts. For the last week or so our pool has been a cloudy, possibly from some hard rains we have had recently. I added some Clorox Clarifier/Flocculant yesterday (https://tinyurl.com/jx5dd9bz) and today things seemed to clear up pretty good as everything was now sitting on the pool...

I need help. We have a 23,500 gallon in ground pool. We do not have a cover for the pool so during the winter it gets all kind of stuff in it. Last year I was able to get it all cleared up and we were able to swim in it. This year however.. I have been slamming for almost a month. CC is 0.5 or...

New here. This is our fourth year with the pool, but this has been the most challenging year ever to get it clean and clear. We don't know what the heck is going on. I think we got behind on chlorine and are playing catch up. The pool has been cloudy with some green tint since opening it...

Pool was very green upon start up and we had a little trouble with the pump system. Everything seems to be running now. I have been shocking the pool quiet often. I’ve gone through roughly 32 gallons of shock. Filter has been running continuously for 9 days. We have a Hayward sand filter with...

Hi, SWG, floor cleaning system, intellichor pump, 27000 gallons inground, in the woods, sun morning, afternoon shade. Maryland. Running SWG at 60% for 10 hours a day. Water looking amazing. Ph was high, CYA low. PH 7.9 FC 5.0. TA 100 CH 300 CYA 0 80 °F Chlorine was a bit high for my tastes...

Hi All, I have a 32k inground with a pool heater. I just got my TF100 kit and the results are: FC-4.5 CC-3.0 PH-7.2 TA-170 CH-550 CYA-35 CSI ?- -0.02 I am not losing chlorine overnight but the water is still not that clear. I can see the bottom but it's not clear. Would the high TA cause this?

So I closed my pool myself (following TFP guidance!) last fall and opened it myself this spring. I used a standard closing kit in the fall and didn’t use any special chemicals this spring other than slamming it. it’s been hard this spring to get the water to clear. It’s been cloudy and I...

let me start by saying I have 34 years in the industry and I have one pool that no one can figure out. This pool was opened this year in May. It has stayed green since. The 4th of July was the only day it was clear and blue. 2 days later....green again. The pool is super cloudy, can't see the...

First let me say I’m fighting a very high TA water source. 330ppm. We had some equipment failure in October and had to shut the pool down and couldn’t afford the equipment because of medical reasons. So at the beginning of May I started cleaning the pool. I have used a water hose vac and...

Hi. I'm new to pool ownership. We bought our house last summer and I kept up maintenance of the pool all summer long according to information I found on this site (thanks alot!). I decided to forgo the pool maintenance over the winter since we weren't using the pool and would just clean it up...