Hello everyone!!
My name is Jessica and I am from Upstate NY. We purchased our first home in December and it came with an in ground pool measuring 16x32 with a 4x7 step. The pool came with a Hayward Sand Filter S244T model. We don’t know much about the unit, just from what we have researched.
I recently came across this forum while I have became very frustrated over the last week and a half at attempting to clear our pool. Here is what we have done so far...
May 21st was the 1st day of opening- added 5 gallons of chlorine and 10oz algicide. I cleaned debris off the bottom, but it was difficult to clean when I couldn’t see. We let the pool do it’s thing for a few days. I returned back to the pool store with another sample. They instructed us to use 3 bags of shock and calcium and to return in another couple days. We cleaned the bottom again, scrubbed, vacuumed and replaced the sand in the filter. Returned and explained that it still had aight green hue to it and I still could not see the bottom. Another 4 bags of shock and half a bottle of Algicide into the pool. At this point the pool had turned into a nice aqua green color to it. I could see the bottom of the shallow end and the beginning to the slope to the deep end. I went back again to the pool store and explained what it looked like. I was handed 2 bottles of flocculant and did as instructed. I had high hopes to wake to a blue pool and everything settled to the bottom. As you can already assume, I woke to a cloudy blue pool....
Can anyone give me any insight before I continue to break my bank of chemicals that seem to do no good. Do I have a bad filter? Do I have the wrong chemicals? Am I going insane??
the first picture is prior to adding the flocculant (aqua green). The 2nd is after the flocculant (18ish hours)
My name is Jessica and I am from Upstate NY. We purchased our first home in December and it came with an in ground pool measuring 16x32 with a 4x7 step. The pool came with a Hayward Sand Filter S244T model. We don’t know much about the unit, just from what we have researched.
I recently came across this forum while I have became very frustrated over the last week and a half at attempting to clear our pool. Here is what we have done so far...
May 21st was the 1st day of opening- added 5 gallons of chlorine and 10oz algicide. I cleaned debris off the bottom, but it was difficult to clean when I couldn’t see. We let the pool do it’s thing for a few days. I returned back to the pool store with another sample. They instructed us to use 3 bags of shock and calcium and to return in another couple days. We cleaned the bottom again, scrubbed, vacuumed and replaced the sand in the filter. Returned and explained that it still had aight green hue to it and I still could not see the bottom. Another 4 bags of shock and half a bottle of Algicide into the pool. At this point the pool had turned into a nice aqua green color to it. I could see the bottom of the shallow end and the beginning to the slope to the deep end. I went back again to the pool store and explained what it looked like. I was handed 2 bottles of flocculant and did as instructed. I had high hopes to wake to a blue pool and everything settled to the bottom. As you can already assume, I woke to a cloudy blue pool....
Can anyone give me any insight before I continue to break my bank of chemicals that seem to do no good. Do I have a bad filter? Do I have the wrong chemicals? Am I going insane??
the first picture is prior to adding the flocculant (aqua green). The 2nd is after the flocculant (18ish hours)
) this morning we woke and it was the first time we were able to see bottom. I think the neighborhood even heard! 
It’s still cloudy but it’s better. We did another vacuum to waste tonight because we had a lot settle over the day. Then I hooked back up and put in through the filter and just said a couple prayers. I did the entire pool, walls and all. We will see what tomorrow brings. I did bite the bullet and purchased a Taylor k-2006 pool kit to test the water. That will arrive Wednesday.
