dead algae

We are first time pool owners and are struggling to completely clear our pool. I’m working on going through Pool School but I wanted to see if anyone could help with our current situation. Is this dead algae or living algae? We had a pool service come out yesterday and within hours there were...

Every morning I wake up to piles of dead algae that have settled on the bottom. I can brush them toward the drain but the whole pool turns green and the filter never really filters out the dead algae. It's as if it's too fine. Ive tried clarifier hoping that would "plump up" the algae enough...

Getting dead algae (I believe) on the seams of my pool. I vacuum to waste. I have a sand filter. Pool is all clean and clear. After half hour or so the algae or whatever it is comes back. Any answers? Thanks in advance

My pool has probably pounds of dead algae on the bottom of it. I need to remove it but cant figure out how. It's in ground and doesn't have a drain. I attempted to vacuum out the algae and water through my backwasher but found there was air getting through so the pressure wasn't very high, and I...