- Oct 16, 2012
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16,000 gallons, plaster with fiberglass walls and attached fiberglass hot tub.
We bought the home in 2011, the pool had been covered and had not been used for five years. I found TroubleFreePools in 2012. Bought the test kit and balanced the water according to TroubleFreePool recommendations. The only parameter that’s on the higher end is CH, runs around 500. There is scaling. Installed a new Tagelus Pentair sand filter in 2013 and filled it with sand from the pool store. Everything was well until last year, when the filter started to pass small particles. When dried, it feels like ground up chalk. It makes the water cloudy.
Question: Should we open the filter and deep clean it? Put in more sand? Is there any way to fix this without opening the filter?
The filter is inside the home in the basement, so letting the water run over for deep cleaning is not feasible.
All the work is done by my husband who installed the whole setup back in 2013.
We bought the home in 2011, the pool had been covered and had not been used for five years. I found TroubleFreePools in 2012. Bought the test kit and balanced the water according to TroubleFreePool recommendations. The only parameter that’s on the higher end is CH, runs around 500. There is scaling. Installed a new Tagelus Pentair sand filter in 2013 and filled it with sand from the pool store. Everything was well until last year, when the filter started to pass small particles. When dried, it feels like ground up chalk. It makes the water cloudy.
Question: Should we open the filter and deep clean it? Put in more sand? Is there any way to fix this without opening the filter?
The filter is inside the home in the basement, so letting the water run over for deep cleaning is not feasible.
All the work is done by my husband who installed the whole setup back in 2013.