Greetings,
In my short time as a pool owner, I've seemed to got my arms around my pool chemistry thanks to everyone here. However, I haven't got my arms around keeping it as clean as I would like.
We have a large ficus tree in our backyard, so if someone in California sneezes the tree will drop a lot of leaves and these little berries in pool. I love the shade the tree provides, but know eventually we will have to get rid of tree.
Each morning I get out any leaves and berries manually with leave rake. After I do this in morning, I start sweeping a reoccuring layer of dirt toward the main drain. The dirt isn't always visible (unless I let it collect for a few days). However, you see it get stirred up immediately when I start sweeping. It's pretty evenly spread everywhere, except there is usually a little more on the steps.
As you may notice in my signature, my pool has in-floor cleaning jets. In fact, those jets are the only return (other than an areator) for the pool. For some reason, they didn't install a side return.
So to my questions. First off, is pushing everything toward the main drain an effective way to remove dirt? I was concerned that my efforts were wasted because after I pushed everything toward drain it would then just get pushed back across pool by the infloor jets once I turn on pump. I have been running my pump at low speed (1725gpm or 1250gpm) since I think high speed pushes dirt back around bottom of pool. However, the pump still primes at high speed for 3 minutes before settling at the lower speed, so I let pump run first and then sweep once the speed as settled to 1725gpm or 1250gpm
Is it common to always get a layer of dirt on spread across bottom of pool every day? I don't know if it's just new dirt, if my in-floor jets are just pushing everything I swept back to shallow end of if my filter isn't holding dirt and it's coming back through the filter. My guess it's a combination of the three.
So is there things I can be doing to help with this or is there another cheap way to get dirt out manually? I have the dolphin on my Amazon wish list, but moving into a new house means I have a lot other new expenses that are going to delay purchasing one. Currently, my only method of cleaning is the leaf rake and I use one of those devices where you hook it up to garden hose and it sucks up leaves. I do that weekly or if there is a large number of leaves that I can't get out with rack. I figured that device doesn't collect the dirt since it's using a mesh net
In my short time as a pool owner, I've seemed to got my arms around my pool chemistry thanks to everyone here. However, I haven't got my arms around keeping it as clean as I would like.
We have a large ficus tree in our backyard, so if someone in California sneezes the tree will drop a lot of leaves and these little berries in pool. I love the shade the tree provides, but know eventually we will have to get rid of tree.
Each morning I get out any leaves and berries manually with leave rake. After I do this in morning, I start sweeping a reoccuring layer of dirt toward the main drain. The dirt isn't always visible (unless I let it collect for a few days). However, you see it get stirred up immediately when I start sweeping. It's pretty evenly spread everywhere, except there is usually a little more on the steps.
As you may notice in my signature, my pool has in-floor cleaning jets. In fact, those jets are the only return (other than an areator) for the pool. For some reason, they didn't install a side return.
So to my questions. First off, is pushing everything toward the main drain an effective way to remove dirt? I was concerned that my efforts were wasted because after I pushed everything toward drain it would then just get pushed back across pool by the infloor jets once I turn on pump. I have been running my pump at low speed (1725gpm or 1250gpm) since I think high speed pushes dirt back around bottom of pool. However, the pump still primes at high speed for 3 minutes before settling at the lower speed, so I let pump run first and then sweep once the speed as settled to 1725gpm or 1250gpm
Is it common to always get a layer of dirt on spread across bottom of pool every day? I don't know if it's just new dirt, if my in-floor jets are just pushing everything I swept back to shallow end of if my filter isn't holding dirt and it's coming back through the filter. My guess it's a combination of the three.
So is there things I can be doing to help with this or is there another cheap way to get dirt out manually? I have the dolphin on my Amazon wish list, but moving into a new house means I have a lot other new expenses that are going to delay purchasing one. Currently, my only method of cleaning is the leaf rake and I use one of those devices where you hook it up to garden hose and it sucks up leaves. I do that weekly or if there is a large number of leaves that I can't get out with rack. I figured that device doesn't collect the dirt since it's using a mesh net
