I did not take care of my pool at the end of last season.
The stairs were removed and the pool left to do it's thing.
A cat fell into the water "at some point" during the winter, how long ago I have no idea, in addition to a dead bird. Animals tend to decay slowly or not at all in water, so needless to say I have a mess to clean up.
I also am going back to liquid chlorine from SWG so I have drained the pool to about 18 inches of the bottom on a non-windy day.
I have refilled with fresh water, removed the large items from the pool including the dead animal, and am now slamming the pool, in addition I have my robot pool cleaner running to get the debris off of the bottom, cleaning it out every 30 minutes. Gone from green to aqua green to brown and now back to green, but still I am continuing with the slam and removing as much of the heavy debris to make the chlorine's job easier, I will post some pics. Point is, keep with it, as it can take some time, I started my slam 3 days ago and still working.
P.S. Also experimenting with some of those "pool balls" little polyester balls that can filter out fine particles, I throw them in the skimmer basket until they need to be rinsed and cleaned, been taking about 2 days before they inhibit water flow. We will see if they help clear the dead algae.
The stairs were removed and the pool left to do it's thing.
A cat fell into the water "at some point" during the winter, how long ago I have no idea, in addition to a dead bird. Animals tend to decay slowly or not at all in water, so needless to say I have a mess to clean up.
I also am going back to liquid chlorine from SWG so I have drained the pool to about 18 inches of the bottom on a non-windy day.
I have refilled with fresh water, removed the large items from the pool including the dead animal, and am now slamming the pool, in addition I have my robot pool cleaner running to get the debris off of the bottom, cleaning it out every 30 minutes. Gone from green to aqua green to brown and now back to green, but still I am continuing with the slam and removing as much of the heavy debris to make the chlorine's job easier, I will post some pics. Point is, keep with it, as it can take some time, I started my slam 3 days ago and still working.
P.S. Also experimenting with some of those "pool balls" little polyester balls that can filter out fine particles, I throw them in the skimmer basket until they need to be rinsed and cleaned, been taking about 2 days before they inhibit water flow. We will see if they help clear the dead algae.
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