Recent content by SubGuy

Unfortunately this seems to be something more than rust. I did the AA shock treatment and it cleared the pool pretty well, however, there seems to be this residual small spotting that just will not go away. I have tried Vitamin C with a localized methodology and nada. I have also tried...

I'll try that after the Vitamin C tomorrow. Thanks for the recommendation.

Will try a few tablets tomorrow AM. Stay tuned.

Re: Ascorbic Treatment to rid Pool of metal stains I already did the AA treatment and it took care of a heavily stained pool (years of neglect) and some of the rust stains. The remaining rust stains are no more than 1mm across, but there are lots of them spattered along the edge. They are...

Re: Ascorbic Treatment to rid Pool of metal stains Had some time to calm down from the happiness discovered with the majority of stains that were removed. All is still clear except the remnants of rust stains that remain from the original steel wool error that was made. Come on guys, we are...

So after about 24 hours any and all stains are completely gone (with one exception) and the pool is as blue as blue can be. What's odd is that before the treatment we didn't really realize just how stained the bottom was because we had no previous experience with this pool ever being as clear...

I wanted to thank you all for the great recommendation of using Ascorbic Acid to get rid of stains. Background is: My wife, bless her heart, cleaned the edge of the pool with steal wool when we opened it last April. Needless to say the steal wool settled to the bottom and left a terrible...