Thank you! If I may ask another question here- I notice with this Intex equipment (and honestly I can't remember from the other pools) then when I backwash and rinse some sand always shoots back through the return. Is this normal? Very annoying.
On the subject of DE, is there a place that sells a small bag. Seems like it is 20-25 bucks for a $25.00 bag or Leslie's as an alternative- still around 20 bucks.
Last week cloudy- this week green. HELP. I left town for two days- but my wife topped the chlorine off to 3 ppm each night. I completed the SLAM per the instructions. When I came home I brushed the pool because it looked like algae starting to form. I vacuumed to waste. Next morning I have this.
I'm guessing the next thing I do is add chlorine to shock level (assuming water is balanced otherwise?). May has been the wettest month on record here and the rains in the last 2 weeks have been crazy.
Your wife should have been targeting 5 FC for a cya of 40 after the water was clear, not 3. Of course you were not done with the SLAM so the real target should have been 16. When your pool has passed SLAM, your target each evening should should come from the FC/CYA chart and if you notice the FC has slipped below the minimum in the chart, you should raise your target Pool School - Chlorine / CYA Chart.
You raise an excellent point. I use the iPhone app for pool calculator and even though it asks for the input info for your goals - BBB or TFP, it still says 3 for the goal on FC- it doesn't seem to change.
Either way- this pool water ain't went below 7 ppm in days and has been topped off to 16 at least twice a day for 3-4 days at least
I've been going at this for about 2 weeks solid it seems. SLAMMING that is. Have I been checking it every two hours? No- but definitely at night and for the last two days every four hours at least.
Here's some good photos of what I have this morning. Yesterday I added about chlorine as readings were 12 ppm in the morning and at 9 pm. (I checked at a couple of intervals in the day and it was at 16 ppm)
This morning- again it was 12.
Question- if I brush the pool floor right now I see some some brown algae. My guess is you really shouldn't brush that because it just stirs it up when you need to really be removing it right?
Problem is I keep flooding the neighbors lawn vacuuming the whole pool to waste! [emoji16]
If I used a little bit of DE in the sand filter will that better trap this stuff so that maybe I can just vacuum in filter mode?
Thanks, my question is around my experience that vacuuming to filter seems to just push it back into the pool. Isn't algae to fine for sand to pick up? But maybe DE will catch it?
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