Recent content by purple_duckk

Ok, I have a little more info. I used the drain king as suggested for about 2 hours then ran the pump. This time after the initial rush of water I was getting some water flow. Not enough to fill the basket but about the amount of a garden hose and it was steady. Went back to the drain king...

I have everything running and I see a little air in the top of my pump basket so I shut off the skimmers to first test if it was coming through the skimmer lines or the main line. Water flow stops completely. I had fine water flow when I started everything a few days ago. I actually primed it...

I appreciate the advice. Obviously I'd rather properly size the equipment. Just quickly looking around on the net I see that the giant sized filters are a pretty penny, like $700 + 700 pounds of sand. If I were to put a Hayward S270T2 (75 GPM/ 3.7 sq ft) filter in, since that seems like about...

I figured the new pump was oversized, but it was free and since my old 1 HP pump seemed a little under powered I am really hoping to use this one at least for a little while. A few extra dollars in electricity is easier to swallow than $500 for a new pump right now, but if the plumbing can't...

I bought a house a couple of years ago with an old inground pool and I have been replacing the old equipment with new equipment as I can. The old pump crapped out at the end of the season last year and I was able to get a new, bigger one for free from a family friend. The issue is the new...

Oh, and the stuff I used was pure Copper Sulfate Pentahydrate, just in case that makes any difference at all and I suddenly have to drain theo whole dang pool now.

So the pool was drained pretty quickly, now comes the long long long process of refilling. I wonder if I can talk the water co into installing a 3" line at the house. On the plus side draining the pool forced me to make a perm plumbed backwash line out to the driveway instead of just into the...

Nicely done chem geek. Only 6-15 times the recommended ammount. Looks like a whole lot of water is coming out.....

Yikes, I was kind of afraid of that. Looks like I'll probably drain a large amount of water out. 2 pounds of Copper Sulfate for 24,000 gallons at about 8 pounds per gallon would be about .001% Without knowing the molar weight I don't think I can figure out the ppm, but I'm going to guess its...

Found a pool place that can test for it. I'm assuming it will be pretty high, what kind of level will be worrysome and what product would you recommend to take it out?

I have not added any sequesterant yet. I wanted to get the advice of the experts here before I did anything else. Is there one in particular you would recommend, and what are the effects of use i.e. sediment dropping out or another compound being created?

Yeah, after I found this forum I wouldn't have used the Copper, but we did this a couple of months ago. In the future I'll just shock the bejezus out of the pool if it ever gets that bad again. I hadn't had the filter running because I had to lower the level so I could repair some marcite and...

Here are some pics. remember I used several pounds of pure Copper Sulfate and some sort of disappating reagent that would allow the algae to absorb the copper faster.(my brother specializes in the chemicals used to keep large fields of water usable , so he has this stuff on hand) Enought that...

So before I found this board I was trying to open a pool that was sitting for two-three years before I bought the house and I enlisted the help of my bio-chemist brother to see what I could use to eliminate the green water I had. He suggested copper sulfate as it is pretty easy to get and...

Hmm, just occured to me that none of my returns have eyeballs. Is this negativly effecting my filtration system by not giving it enough back pressure?