Hi, I really need help. I'm only 14, and it's up to me to keep my pool clean because my dad died about a year and a half ago and I'm not quite sure on what to do. So the water is clean with perfect chlorine and acid levels, but a few years ago it was a complete swamp. When we got it clean, the water was fine, I was able to scrub most of the algae away, although the walls were kind of stained a light yellowish color. It was worst around the steps. But it seems to slowly be getting worse no matter how much i scrub and I really need to know how to fix it. I have looked at other post with similar questions but I don't really understand what to do. Can some please tell me what to do in words that an average 14 year old will be able to understand?
Walls stained yellow. PleasePleasePlease help
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Try holding a Vitamin C tablet against one of the stained areas for 30 seconds and see what happens. If the stains vanish in that immediate area then they are iron stains and can be removed with an AA treatment.
Try holding a Vitamin C tablet against one of the stained areas for 30 seconds and see what happens. If the stains vanish in that immediate area then they are iron stains and can be removed with an AA treatment.
Ascorbic Acid treatment to remove metal stains. All info in Pool School, big white button at the top right of each page.nwsnoah said:
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Butterfly said:Ascorbic Acid treatment to remove metal stains. All info in Pool School, big white button at the top right of each page.nwsnoah said:
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Thanks you so much
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Maybe, if you can, post up a picture of the pool and the equipment and we can help you identify what you have.
So sorry for your loss!
Maybe, if you can, post up a picture of the pool and the equipment and we can help you identify what you have.
So sorry for your loss!
Welcome! You can do this and we can help! Take pictures of everything, pool, equiptment etc and post them and we can figure out what you are working with. How are you currently testing the water?
Here's a picture (it's not that great) It looks like that in a lot of places around the pool and it won't come off no matter how hard i scrub. I tried the vitamin C tablet in many spots. It made a little difference in on spot, but in all the others it did nothing. I will try to add a picture of the vitamin c tablets to make sure I'm using the right ones. Am I using the right stuff? Any other suggestions on what to do? Thank you everyone.
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Casey said:Welcome to TFP!
Maybe, if you can, post up a picture of the pool and the equipment and we can help you identify what you have.
So sorry for your loss!
I posted a couple pictures above, but i don't know if like i need to quote you in order for you see it so here
Pictures of your equiptment will help us make recommendations to you. How are you testing the chemical levels now?
harleysilo said:
I don't think my current equiptment will help because it's been like the for a while. They're just really bad stains. It's as if the walls were originally painted yellow.
We are sorry for your loss and glad that you are here with us.
The TFP folks will walk you thru all the pool issues you may have.
What test kit are you using?
Please post a full set of test resuts on the pool water and tell us how you got them...and a test for metals.
Also, it would be good to have a test of your fill water. TA, CH, pH & a test for metals.
The TFP folks will walk you thru all the pool issues you may have.
What test kit are you using?
Please post a full set of test resuts on the pool water and tell us how you got them...and a test for metals.
Also, it would be good to have a test of your fill water. TA, CH, pH & a test for metals.
Is your pool a salt water pool, do you have a salt water chlorine generator? Do you add chlorine via pucks? Do you have a sand filter, cartridge, DE? I know you want to solve the stains, we want to help you take total control of your pool.nwsnoah said:
harleysilo said:
I really don't know the answer to alot of the questions people are asking, and i don't know what a lot of this stuff means, but I know it's not salt water and that I use chlorine pucks, and some liquid chlorine