Haha.. my wallet is plenty light, so I'll keep algicide as a preventative.
This is my fault for not starting to chlorinate & clean sooner. the water was below 65° all winter, but "spring" here in San Diego was 92° today! Summer is early!
OK, anyway.
Almost dusk, no sunlight on the pool.
FC is 14
CC = less than 0.5!
I could not find a Unicel filter anywhere close by me, but I did find a Pleatco one. The admitted it was not as good as Unicel, but most of the distributors have switched over for some reason.
Still... just by looking at it I can tell it's miles beyond the Intex filter quality. This time, when I vacuumed, i did NOT see a stream of dirty water going back into the pool.
To be fair though, the bottom wasn't as dirty as i've vacuumed the last 2 days... still, I think it should improve things more now.... i hope.
Two things the store folks mentioned to me, is that:
1. If I put the cover on the pool, then the gasses are not being released into the air, but trapped back in the pool... (hence the CC going back up?)
2. If I keep the FC up at 12 too long, it'll damage my vinyl pool. Might be better to just refill.
So my question now is, if I cannot keep my FC above 10 or 12 while I'm at work, will the pool stay cloudy?
Or is it OK since it only seems to be going down to 4 or so by the time i get home?
And... should this process take a week for a pool my size?
Hoping for better results with the new filter, still gonna try to find a Unicel online though.
Thanks!