As the title says, I have done something stupid, I used floc and now the cartridge filter is clogged.
Let me start from the beginning......................
Having recently uncovered the pool for our summer I was shocked to find that the water was green. This has never happened before as the water is normally crystal clear when I uncover it after winter, and the filter still runs 8 hours a
day summer or winter. The thing that probably made me a little suspicious about what was going on under the pool cover was that there seemed to be very little water movement under the cover and into the skimmer box.
Of course once I had removed the pool cover and removed the cartridge filter which was covered in algae and ran the pump without the filter inserted, pressure was restored to normal operating pressure.
I took my water sample to the local pool shop to find out what was up, or in my case down as there was very little salt (1120 ppm), so this would acount for why there was no chlorine being produced with the salt water chlorinator.
Pool shop advised me to add 2 Kg of chlorine to the pool. This I did which cleaned up the algae overnight, but left the water very cloudy. They then advised me to add a floculent to settle the cloudiness. I did this and as they said it would, the water seemed to be clear again.
And this is where my problem has begun because I just don't seem to be able to run the the pool filter whatsoever without it clogging up within minutes and the pressure rising very quickly. I have 2 filters on the go and have soaked them both in a cleaner solution to hopefully get things going again, but no nothing seems to work.
I know I'm due to replace one of the cartridges as it is at EOL but am very loathe to put in a new cartrdge for fear of stuffing that up also. And yes I should have read more on this site to realize that floc is not that loved around here.
So does anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers,
John
Let me start from the beginning......................
Having recently uncovered the pool for our summer I was shocked to find that the water was green. This has never happened before as the water is normally crystal clear when I uncover it after winter, and the filter still runs 8 hours a
day summer or winter. The thing that probably made me a little suspicious about what was going on under the pool cover was that there seemed to be very little water movement under the cover and into the skimmer box.
Of course once I had removed the pool cover and removed the cartridge filter which was covered in algae and ran the pump without the filter inserted, pressure was restored to normal operating pressure.
I took my water sample to the local pool shop to find out what was up, or in my case down as there was very little salt (1120 ppm), so this would acount for why there was no chlorine being produced with the salt water chlorinator.
Pool shop advised me to add 2 Kg of chlorine to the pool. This I did which cleaned up the algae overnight, but left the water very cloudy. They then advised me to add a floculent to settle the cloudiness. I did this and as they said it would, the water seemed to be clear again.
And this is where my problem has begun because I just don't seem to be able to run the the pool filter whatsoever without it clogging up within minutes and the pressure rising very quickly. I have 2 filters on the go and have soaked them both in a cleaner solution to hopefully get things going again, but no nothing seems to work.
I know I'm due to replace one of the cartridges as it is at EOL but am very loathe to put in a new cartrdge for fear of stuffing that up also. And yes I should have read more on this site to realize that floc is not that loved around here.
So does anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers,
John
It is not the end of the world and thankfully you have two so you can change them out over and over and over and over..........
