First time poster here!
Background info: we have a 20,000 gallon in the ground pool and have had it working well for 4 summers now. We have a sand filter and a nature 2 cartridge. We have an automatic cover so it’s usually covered unless in use, and it’s used probably every other day. This is the first year where we had a water mold/algae floating on top of the water when we opened it for the season. We treated it with algaecide and shocked it, but the chlorine levels kept disappearing. Turns out we had phosphates in our water (this has never happened to us before) which required 4 phosphate treatments before the chlorine started to stabilize. We’ve shocked the pool at least a half dozen times since then.
Here’s our problem: the water is clear, the pool store tested our water and all the chemicals balanced, but the water STINKS. Not like chlorine, but like a lake! Or fish! It’s terrible and I’m embarrassed having people use it, let alone bringing our infant son into the pool.
The only idea our pool store had was to use a product called Pool perfect, but that has made little to no difference. We’ve tried adding more algaecide, more pool perfect, more chlorine — nothing seems to help.
We haven’t replaced our sand in the filter since we first got the pool going 4 years ago. Is it possible that the sand is releasing the smell into the pool? Could we still have an algae problem if the pool is clear? Could there still be phosphates in the water and do those cause stink? I’m desperate! Help!
Background info: we have a 20,000 gallon in the ground pool and have had it working well for 4 summers now. We have a sand filter and a nature 2 cartridge. We have an automatic cover so it’s usually covered unless in use, and it’s used probably every other day. This is the first year where we had a water mold/algae floating on top of the water when we opened it for the season. We treated it with algaecide and shocked it, but the chlorine levels kept disappearing. Turns out we had phosphates in our water (this has never happened to us before) which required 4 phosphate treatments before the chlorine started to stabilize. We’ve shocked the pool at least a half dozen times since then.
Here’s our problem: the water is clear, the pool store tested our water and all the chemicals balanced, but the water STINKS. Not like chlorine, but like a lake! Or fish! It’s terrible and I’m embarrassed having people use it, let alone bringing our infant son into the pool.
The only idea our pool store had was to use a product called Pool perfect, but that has made little to no difference. We’ve tried adding more algaecide, more pool perfect, more chlorine — nothing seems to help.
We haven’t replaced our sand in the filter since we first got the pool going 4 years ago. Is it possible that the sand is releasing the smell into the pool? Could we still have an algae problem if the pool is clear? Could there still be phosphates in the water and do those cause stink? I’m desperate! Help!
