Oh joy (not). I persuaded the person who had helped maintain this pool for the last 20 odd years to help me and gave him a key to the pump room. Tuesday he texted me to say water was green. At that time, I thought the pool was just it's usual, horrible turbid self. Lots of sand on the bottom, so I started our "creepy crawler" (self-vacuum). Wednesday, I stopped by and stuck it back into the skimmer as it had come loose and noticed the water was horribly turbid, as usual, but not green. Last night, I checked in and found green water, a chlorinator that had been turned to "off" (there was no water at all in it when I opened it and the smell of chlorine was over powering the pump room, which was super hot when I first went into it.) The bottom of the pool has LOTS of what appears to be sand (from the filter?) even though some folks keep telling me it's debris blown off our flat roof.
So, I opened valve on chlorinator to 2.0, put 5 extra pucks in, cleaned the pump, got the creepy crawler working again. We were out of cal-hypo, but it was suggested that the cal-hypo was causing the cloudiness. Use of liquid chlorine would be ideal, but expensive. (Our Lodge is poor and I don't want to be spending my own $.) I'm about to go manually vacuum it and test it thoroughly this morning and am thinking about stopping by Wal-Mart to pick up some bags of di-chlor to shock the green out. Opinions?
P.S.- I find it hard to believe that the person to whom I gave a key would have turned the chlorinator off on purpose. I'm hoping he intended to open the valve wide open and just got it backwards by accident.
So, I opened valve on chlorinator to 2.0, put 5 extra pucks in, cleaned the pump, got the creepy crawler working again. We were out of cal-hypo, but it was suggested that the cal-hypo was causing the cloudiness. Use of liquid chlorine would be ideal, but expensive. (Our Lodge is poor and I don't want to be spending my own $.) I'm about to go manually vacuum it and test it thoroughly this morning and am thinking about stopping by Wal-Mart to pick up some bags of di-chlor to shock the green out. Opinions?
P.S.- I find it hard to believe that the person to whom I gave a key would have turned the chlorinator off on purpose. I'm hoping he intended to open the valve wide open and just got it backwards by accident.