Still cloudy water
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Thank you! If I may ask another question here- I notice with this Intex equipment (and honestly I can't remember from the other pools) then when I backwash and rinse some sand always shoots back through the return. Is this normal? Very annoying.
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Perhaps you are not rinsing long enough. Do so until the sight glass is really clear.
I get a little sand after backwashing and rinsing. I try to rinse until there is very little in the glass. It is annoying, but I just vaccume it up.
On the subject of DE, is there a place that sells a small bag. Seems like it is 20-25 bucks for a $25.00 bag or Leslie's as an alternative- still around 20 bucks.
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Unfortunately, I have not found any. I bough mine at Home Depot. It will last me forever...lol
Last week cloudy- this week green. HELP. I left town for two days- but my wife topped the chlorine off to 3 ppm each night. I completed the SLAM per the instructions. When I came home I brushed the pool because it looked like algae starting to form. I vacuumed to waste. Next morning I have this.
I'm guessing the next thing I do is add chlorine to shock level (assuming water is balanced otherwise?). May has been the wettest month on record here and the rains in the last 2 weeks have been crazy.
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I'm guessing the next thing I do is add chlorine to shock level (assuming water is balanced otherwise?). May has been the wettest month on record here and the rains in the last 2 weeks have been crazy.
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I am sorry. Yes you will need to test everything and then bring to FC back up. Hopefully it will be quick though.
I have been slamming like crazy. Went from 16 ppm last night to 7 this morning. How long do I need to do this? How bad can my pool be?
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You have to continue until you pass all criteria for the SLAM.
Pass a OLCT with a overnight loss of 1ppm or less
Have a CC of .5 or lower
Pool water is crystal clear
Pass a OLCT with a overnight loss of 1ppm or less
Have a CC of .5 or lower
Pool water is crystal clear
Your wife should have been targeting 5 FC for a cya of 40 after the water was clear, not 3. Of course you were not done with the SLAM so the real target should have been 16. When your pool has passed SLAM, your target each evening should should come from the FC/CYA chart and if you notice the FC has slipped below the minimum in the chart, you should raise your target Pool School - Chlorine / CYA Chart.
You raise an excellent point. I use the iPhone app for pool calculator and even though it asks for the input info for your goals - BBB or TFP, it still says 3 for the goal on FC- it doesn't seem to change.
Either way- this pool water ain't went below 7 ppm in days and has been topped off to 16 at least twice a day for 3-4 days at least
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Either way- this pool water ain't went below 7 ppm in days and has been topped off to 16 at least twice a day for 3-4 days at least
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It did drop from 16 to 10 in about 6 hours of sunlight today. Does that mean it's doing its job?
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I've been going at this for about 2 weeks solid it seems. SLAMMING that is. Have I been checking it every two hours? No- but definitely at night and for the last two days every four hours at least.
Here's some good photos of what I have this morning. Yesterday I added about chlorine as readings were 12 ppm in the morning and at 9 pm. (I checked at a couple of intervals in the day and it was at 16 ppm)
This morning- again it was 12.
Question- if I brush the pool floor right now I see some some brown algae. My guess is you really shouldn't brush that because it just stirs it up when you need to really be removing it right?
Problem is I keep flooding the neighbors lawn vacuuming the whole pool to waste! [emoji16]
If I used a little bit of DE in the sand filter will that better trap this stuff so that maybe I can just vacuum in filter mode?
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Here's some good photos of what I have this morning. Yesterday I added about chlorine as readings were 12 ppm in the morning and at 9 pm. (I checked at a couple of intervals in the day and it was at 16 ppm)
This morning- again it was 12.
Question- if I brush the pool floor right now I see some some brown algae. My guess is you really shouldn't brush that because it just stirs it up when you need to really be removing it right?
Problem is I keep flooding the neighbors lawn vacuuming the whole pool to waste! [emoji16]
If I used a little bit of DE in the sand filter will that better trap this stuff so that maybe I can just vacuum in filter mode?
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You want to brush as much as you can and you can vaccume to filter . Backwash as needed.
Thanks, my question is around my experience that vacuuming to filter seems to just push it back into the pool. Isn't algae to fine for sand to pick up? But maybe DE will catch it?
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