Hi all. I am having a slight issue with my pool this year in that I noticed my pool was consuming FC pretty quickly. Like 5 or 6ppm per day. I'm never losing much overnight, maybe .5ppm, but if I don't continually add chlorine during the day it drops a lot. I believe it is because I was lazy and didn't fully clean my wedding cake stairs. I left them in the pool all winter. When I started my pump back up this year I added chlorine and thought I was fine (I didnt SLAM, I just brought the FC up to my level for CYA). With the water still cold I wasn't testing my water often enough, when I noticed I was almost out of chlorine one day when I should have had plenty, I realized there was something amiss. I pulled the stairs out and hosed them down, and there was some slime on them. Not green, but you could feel it. I thought I got it all off, so I put them back in the pool. Chlorine demand is still high.
So I'm thinking I didn't clean my stairs off enough. When I got home from work last night, I pulled them out of the pool again right before it started to rain. Long story short, I didn't do anything to them immediately and the stairs will likely be dry by the time I get home from work today. How should I go about cleaning these things and getting the gunk off to keep it out of my pool? Dish soap? some diluted bleach? Something else entirely?
I'm not crazy about the idea of climbing into this thing and scrubbing it down with bleach. I'm sure breathing that would be lovely.
So I'm thinking I didn't clean my stairs off enough. When I got home from work last night, I pulled them out of the pool again right before it started to rain. Long story short, I didn't do anything to them immediately and the stairs will likely be dry by the time I get home from work today. How should I go about cleaning these things and getting the gunk off to keep it out of my pool? Dish soap? some diluted bleach? Something else entirely?
I'm not crazy about the idea of climbing into this thing and scrubbing it down with bleach. I'm sure breathing that would be lovely.