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    Pump needs backwashing every few hours?

    Hi all, so I am not that familiar with pool pump lingo. I am still slamming my pool and I am almost at the end. I recently cleaned the sand in my filter by putting the hose in the sand and letting the yuck run out of the top. I believe they call that deep cleaning. After that the filter return...
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    Could something be wrong with my sand filter

    We have a sand filter (Hayward) replaced sand this year. Sounds good, very strong water output back into the pool but when I backwash the water isn’t very dirty. (Only a cloudy white) The problem is I have been slamming my pool for over two weeks and it is still a dark aqua green color. I...
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    Please help! I’m going crazy, and wasting money

    I have kept my pool clean until last winter, we leave the pool open, but pool leak etc. anyway, so I began with a green swamp. I didn’t have my new Testing kit and so began by just dumping in 10% liquid chlorine. Keeping my chlorine level at 20% for 5 days. (My cya according to the Last I had...
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    Algae or another problem

    I have never posted on here. I just read all of the time. Pool started leaking ran out of chemicals etc.. long story short pool filled with algae over the winter. I had ran out of cya testing supplies so just guessed and added a lot of bleach. And kept fc high for almost 1 week. Fc stayed around...