I’m ripping my hair out. My grandmother kept this pool beautiful for 45 years, and here I am going crazy and bearing the stress so my father doesn’t have to.
Few days ago when the pool was still crystal clear and amazing, we decided to take a water sample in just to be sure our ph and cya was good. (Very regrettable)
Earlier this summer we did a full pool renovation so everything is brand new and only running for about a month.
We have Hayward Vs pump, aquarite 900 salt system and Hayward sand filter.
Pump is ran 24 h a day, slower speed during the day, aquarite is generating 25% during 24 hour period
Frequent backwashes, regular shocking etc
We use a Polaris robot couple times a week
Our chemistry was nearly perfect.
Salt 3500ppm
Ph 7.4
Sanitation ORP 683mV
Alkalinity was in range (about 100ppm)
CYA 48 ppm (in range as per Hayward)
hardness 190ppm
****phosphates 1900ppb
So here’s where I’m ripping my hair out. Pool store said add phosfree and gave us a description as to WHY you must remove phosphates. So now for 2 days the pool is so cloudy and I’m so angry about it!
Questions as follows: why did phosfree cloud my pool? How do I uncloud my pool? And do we need to remove phosphates from the pool in the future? Are they toxic? It seems we had everything going great, did we really “try to fix something that ain’t broke”?
Please help! Our swim season was 3 months delayed due to Reno, and Canadian summers don’t last long!
Few days ago when the pool was still crystal clear and amazing, we decided to take a water sample in just to be sure our ph and cya was good. (Very regrettable)
Earlier this summer we did a full pool renovation so everything is brand new and only running for about a month.
We have Hayward Vs pump, aquarite 900 salt system and Hayward sand filter.
Pump is ran 24 h a day, slower speed during the day, aquarite is generating 25% during 24 hour period
Frequent backwashes, regular shocking etc
We use a Polaris robot couple times a week
Our chemistry was nearly perfect.
Salt 3500ppm
Ph 7.4
Sanitation ORP 683mV
Alkalinity was in range (about 100ppm)
CYA 48 ppm (in range as per Hayward)
hardness 190ppm
****phosphates 1900ppb
So here’s where I’m ripping my hair out. Pool store said add phosfree and gave us a description as to WHY you must remove phosphates. So now for 2 days the pool is so cloudy and I’m so angry about it!
Questions as follows: why did phosfree cloud my pool? How do I uncloud my pool? And do we need to remove phosphates from the pool in the future? Are they toxic? It seems we had everything going great, did we really “try to fix something that ain’t broke”?
Please help! Our swim season was 3 months delayed due to Reno, and Canadian summers don’t last long!