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I use Pool Essentials liquid chlorine with 10% but also read that the liquid chlorine degrades quickly in the bottle. My date on the bottles are Feb of 2024 and stored out of sunlight in a pool shed under a tree with average temp of 80-90 degrees. Does anyone think it is possible that although...

I created a post a couple days ago about my pool turning green after tropical rains. After discussing with several knowledgeable experts in here, I ended raising to Mustard shock 2 days ago. It’s is starting to clear but still pretty green, but a bit clearer, and losing about 2 with the...

I hear ya, that’s probably what I’ll do to make sure

no apology necessary glad for the help, I knew about the dang ladder, tiny little holes in it for water the enter and sink the steps. I found that out ten years ago, so I took my handy drill, took the ladder out, and made some big holes in the steps, flushed out the steps with jet nozzle, the...

🤣🤣🤣🤣it’s not my fault I live in the same state lol, I don’t watch them anyway, I went to USL

Yes, let it go two days losing nothing overnight and only about 1 during the day, the reason I said mustard is because I’ve had it in there on 3 prior occasions in 10 years. And I know it’s not good for the liner. You do understand for 12 years this pool had to be kept at least at 6 FC, not 3...

Yeah we don’t get much cool air in summer, the heat index right now is 112. We got a total of 3 inches in two days, I contacted LSU College and went back and forth with a hydrologist, he said the likely cause is there was already a hint of algae in the water and once the storms picked up the...

Had slammed it last week, cleared up, then after rain algae exploded I went ahead and went to mustard fearing that’s what I had the first time, thanks

FC7, CYA 50, Ph 7.4, thanks

Hello everyone, I’m in Louisiana 50 miles from the coast. We just had two days of rain bands from that tropical storm in the gulf coming in from the gulf. Pool turned green in two days. This is not the first time we get rain from the gulf and storm hurricane etc and it turns green growing algae...

Hello all, my 2012 Hayward pump for my 21 foot above ground pool started tripping my breaker yesterday after years of running fine. It runs for about 3-5 then trips breaker. I checked all my wiring from my shed to outdoor covered plug and discovered that the plug was sooted and the recep was...

Tks Mike the stain comes off with the vitamin c tab and when we first tested we did have iron but according to the "pool store people" there may be such a minuscule amt that the test won't show but there still could be iron once u add bleach/chlorine. We put two puck floaters in 0 FC and after a...

Tks, yes was a typo on the FC, and yes they sure are, makes one want to fill this old pool with some dirt and make a vegetable garden or an aquatic habitat for frogs

Thought I would give an update on this pool. We have cleared it with another ascorbic acid treatment after doing about a 3/4 pool water replacement over several days. We cleaned sand filter over that period several times. Iron tested at two different pool stores with the water clear and blue...

Thought I would just show some pics of how the iron returned to the walls and how a vitamin C tablet cleared some of it. I am going to crush some 3 dollar a bottle vitamins in a food processor as an experiment, should take about 3 bottles for the pool size. I know it will return without...

Tried draining half in two segments and refilling over three days with iron free city water, the same one that i use in my pool, it's no go, the minute I slowly raised the bleach by 1 ppm a day and I got to 3, it redeposited the stains just not as bad. Ph at 7.1 - 7.2 and has remained there...

ok that would be a little better, just keep draining a refilling until we could get most of it out

Ok tks, I guess that might be the way to go, drain the pool since I probably will never get the iron out, just kinda worries me to take all the water out, heard horror stories of draining a fiberglass pool all the way out and the water table pops it out the ground. I dont think just slow water...

tks for the nfo on the PH, I did not mean to get it that high, I plugged 40 in the caculator and 7.0 in ph using target of 100 and target of 7.2 for ph, I added what it told me to add, one box borax and 200 something ozs of baking soda. So at this point I should SLAM it until the criteria is...

Been trying to help my sister with her 16000 gallon fiberglass pool built in the 80s, she allowed it to get real bad full of leaves and basically a dark brown soup. So once I did the clean up, removing two years of leaves,with the water still dark brown I brought it to shock level for several...

That's what mine did too, I had to hit it twice when I thought I had killed it. That's why even though you don't see it and looked clear, it came back when you caned down on the levels. Even though the pool school shock suggested to leave it at mustard shock for 24 hours, I left it for 48. Again...

I know seems at first like nothing's happening that why the experts in here maintain shocking is a process not a one day event. At least it's good to see your CYA is on the way down.

You will get the hang of it, I was terrible with it at first too, and that's not that long ago. Some people test theirs at the beginning of summer and the middle without losing much. I have to test mine way more often because of water evap and then our occasional afternoon thunderstorms that can...

Glad to hear that, just follow the CYA chart and dont let the FC get below the min according to the CYA level you have. Also watch your PH once you get below FC 10, anything above that can give fluctuating PH readings and not be true.

Great, keep us posted, hopefully that will get it. On mine I had some dead stuff at the bottom I had to vacuum to waste and then repeatedly DE'd my sandfilter to clear the water. Once it was dead it took about two days and at least 5 backwashings to clear it.

Don't sell your house, just the pool!!! Just kidding, I know it's frustrating as heck just follow the steps and you have a head start because you have that DE filter whereas I had enhance my sand with DE to eventually get it clean. Just once you mustard shock it make sure you get it all. I did...

Tks, especially for my son and wife who are shorter than me, makes it a whole lot easier than dragging a step ladder around

Here is a picture I just took of it going on 5 days no problems, (knock on wood) [attachment=1:yk142txa]pool2.jpg[/attachment:yk142txa] Here is a little 2 x 6 wood platform I built to help go around the pool and get test water, vacuum, remove leaves etc, this helps alot when you dont have the...