Recent content by copotay

Hello all, my 2012 Hayward pump for my 21 foot above ground pool started tripping my breaker yesterday after years of running fine. It runs for about 3-5 then trips breaker. I checked all my wiring from my shed to outdoor covered plug and discovered that the plug was sooted and the recep was...

Tks Mike the stain comes off with the vitamin c tab and when we first tested we did have iron but according to the "pool store people" there may be such a minuscule amt that the test won't show but there still could be iron once u add bleach/chlorine. We put two puck floaters in 0 FC and after a...

Tks, yes was a typo on the FC, and yes they sure are, makes one want to fill this old pool with some dirt and make a vegetable garden or an aquatic habitat for frogs

Thought I would give an update on this pool. We have cleared it with another ascorbic acid treatment after doing about a 3/4 pool water replacement over several days. We cleaned sand filter over that period several times. Iron tested at two different pool stores with the water clear and blue...

Thought I would just show some pics of how the iron returned to the walls and how a vitamin C tablet cleared some of it. I am going to crush some 3 dollar a bottle vitamins in a food processor as an experiment, should take about 3 bottles for the pool size. I know it will return without...

Tried draining half in two segments and refilling over three days with iron free city water, the same one that i use in my pool, it's no go, the minute I slowly raised the bleach by 1 ppm a day and I got to 3, it redeposited the stains just not as bad. Ph at 7.1 - 7.2 and has remained there...

ok that would be a little better, just keep draining a refilling until we could get most of it out

Ok tks, I guess that might be the way to go, drain the pool since I probably will never get the iron out, just kinda worries me to take all the water out, heard horror stories of draining a fiberglass pool all the way out and the water table pops it out the ground. I dont think just slow water...

tks for the nfo on the PH, I did not mean to get it that high, I plugged 40 in the caculator and 7.0 in ph using target of 100 and target of 7.2 for ph, I added what it told me to add, one box borax and 200 something ozs of baking soda. So at this point I should SLAM it until the criteria is...

Been trying to help my sister with her 16000 gallon fiberglass pool built in the 80s, she allowed it to get real bad full of leaves and basically a dark brown soup. So once I did the clean up, removing two years of leaves,with the water still dark brown I brought it to shock level for several...

That's what mine did too, I had to hit it twice when I thought I had killed it. That's why even though you don't see it and looked clear, it came back when you caned down on the levels. Even though the pool school shock suggested to leave it at mustard shock for 24 hours, I left it for 48. Again...

I know seems at first like nothing's happening that why the experts in here maintain shocking is a process not a one day event. At least it's good to see your CYA is on the way down.

You will get the hang of it, I was terrible with it at first too, and that's not that long ago. Some people test theirs at the beginning of summer and the middle without losing much. I have to test mine way more often because of water evap and then our occasional afternoon thunderstorms that can...

Glad to hear that, just follow the CYA chart and dont let the FC get below the min according to the CYA level you have. Also watch your PH once you get below FC 10, anything above that can give fluctuating PH readings and not be true.

Great, keep us posted, hopefully that will get it. On mine I had some dead stuff at the bottom I had to vacuum to waste and then repeatedly DE'd my sandfilter to clear the water. Once it was dead it took about two days and at least 5 backwashings to clear it.