Rust in pool

[JimMarshall]

I apparently had an issue with a wind storm taking one of my umbrellas and an umbrella base off the deck and relocating them to the bottom of the pool. Just came out to check on the pool and found it.

when fishing out the umbrella it led to a significant cloud of rusty water coming out of the umbrella pole and into the pool, along with rust flakes. Short of running my robot and keeping my chlorine up, is there anything I should be doing to combat this?

 

[Texas Splash]

If you can filter any of it out right away either with the robot or main filter that would be best. Catch that stuff while it's still in a solid state.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

If you can vac to waste, do it. Otherwise filter it out then clean the cartridges.

My two cents.

Maddie

 

[JamesW]

Rust flakes can be sharp. Be careful not to cut the liner.

 

[JimMarshall]

Rust flakes can be sharp. Be careful not to cut the liner.

These are small flakes. Like grain of sand size

 

[JamesW]

Ok, maybe a magnet to help collect them if that seems safe.

 

[JimMarshall]

Ok, maybe a magnet to help collect them if that seems safe.

Dang. Now that is the kind of thing that makes this place the best for pool advice. Never in a million years would I have come up with that

 

[Newdude]

Never in a million years would I have come up with that

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