flocculant

Hey TFP, I wanted to share by journey with this strange particulate matter that had plagued my pool for a month, and questions on what this was, and how to prevent this in the future. For context, I have had this pool for 4 years now. Aside from a few hiccups here and there, I never had any...

Let me start by saying we left the pool uncovered for the first time. We were going to drain but delaware pool companies basically did not offer a full pool drain. We decided to fix the water up. We shocked and then shocked again becuase the water wasnt clear enough. Got as much debris out as...

I used floc and kept it for 48 hours. Water got nice and clean but gunk on the floor. I started manual vacuuming. Shallow end was great. At the deep end after vacuuming a while water got agitated and cloudy again. Actually I tried to skim out some leaves too which were visible on the floor after...

Hi all- ::::Big sigh here:::: So, last week I saw a video on youtube where someone used a sock full of vitamin c to eradicate metal staining in his pool. I tried it in a small spot and it worked! I instantly went to amazon and bought a gallon of powdered vitamin C and went nuts. Dumped the...

Hey guys, glad I found this place. I bought a new house with a swimming pool and the pool is green for 9 months since then. I took the water sample to Leslie with their automatic test and adjusted chemical accordingly. Finally I put 5 gallons of liquid chlorine but it did not help. It’s hard to...

First of all, a thanks to this forum - I bought a home with a pool having never owned one before last season, and what I inherited was a 30 year old pool that had become an abandoned swamp. Winterized but uncovered for at least one year, possibly several. I had to learn how to recover the...

I've read through the SLAM method here and started it yesterday. Sounds great, added 4 lbs of CYA (level was zero before addition). Pool is 18,000 gallons, in ground, vinyl, sand filter 300 pounds, new pump is running 24/7. TC is 2, FC is 3 but should be increasing soon. I've been using...

Opened my inground pool a week ago and have had nothing but problems. It is concrete with a vinyl liner. This is our first season with the pool and we have zero experience. It had a huge algae bloom right off and it has been a struggle to get chemicals in balance. Algae is dead now but...

So I know it is bad to use pool floc with a cartridge filter because it gets into the blade of the cartridge and is very difficult to get out. BUT What if I take my filter out, and just run the system with floc in it, then pull the plug off the back of the tank and vacuum out to waste? That...

My chemistry reading are. Ph 7.2 Free chlorine 5 Residual 3.0 All 80 ppm First time pool owner, 20 foot round, 48 in pool. Heads up our phosphates were 2400+, and I used phosphate remover, twice. The whole 32 oz bottle over 2 days. We have added stabilizer, and finally have this much chlorine...

My floc is not sinking after 30 hours. Things that may have caused a problem: 1. The pH level was elevated when floc was added. 2. About 18 oz of floc were added when only 12oz were needed. Did I ruin it? Do I need to wait longer? Some sites say up to 48 hours will be needed, but at this...

Not really a start but a reboot - after 600mm of rain, garden runoff etc, pool was DARK BROWN. Couldn't see the shallowest step, I just turned off the pump and chlorinator and waited for the weather to clear. First, I put the suction cleaner to work to try and remove some of the debris in the...

My pool was very cloudy due to sand mixing in with the water and not filtering out. So I thought about just using some flocculant. The good, the flocculant is working. The bad, I have a cartridge filter & Polaris 280 vacuum. I've had a cartridge filter since then pool was built 18 years ago, and...

I'm trying to clean algae out of the pool. I added algaecide a day ago and just added floc to assist with the process of clumping the particles to the bottom of the pool. After pouring the floc I remembered that I was supposed to put the setting to recirculate instead of filter. The floc...

Hello pool experts. For the last week or so our pool has been a cloudy, possibly from some hard rains we have had recently. I added some Clorox Clarifier/Flocculant yesterday (https://tinyurl.com/jx5dd9bz) and today things seemed to clear up pretty good as everything was now sitting on the pool...

So I added flocculant to my pool not realizing I cant use it with a cartridge filter :O( I replaced my cartridge filter with a new one after i got most of the flocculant out. pool is pretty clear. but 24 hours after i vacuum i keep getting this stuff at the bottom of the pool. it keeps coming...

I have a 15' above ground pool and following a week of intense storms, my chlorine levels dropped and the water became milky. I shocked the pool and used Leslie's UltraBright Advanced to clarify the water, with the expectation that I would be able to vacuum the muck. It;s been 10 days and I just...

Hi, At the end of spring, we decided to set up our intex above ground pool ( it's a round 12 m³ pool ) and everything went good. After a month, the water started turning really green and we got rid of the algae by shocking, but now there is a lot of stuff dissolved in our pool that turns the...