metal

Hello! I am new to owning and this is my first time opening one up. I attached some pics of how it looks today after double shocking it yesterday evening around 8pm. I left my pool on circulate since I have a sand filter and didn’t want algae getting stuck in there. I’m not sure if that was the...

Hi all. For weeks now I've been yo-yoing back and forth between lowering my chlorine, adding chemicals to treat metal staining on entire surface of my pool and then once clear adding chlorine back in and then watching the staining come back. What's more is that in treating the metal staining my...

I’m so glad I found this site on Reddit, I’m hoping you experts will be able to help. I recently purchased a vinyl sided Intex brand pool secondhand. It uses the basic Intex filter with A/C cartridges. Approximately 3500 gallons. We really thought we were just going to fill this puppy up and...

Metal Staining is returning mid August, 3-4 months after the May AA treatment. I knew this would happen. I’m going to have to accept that an annual AA treatment is necessary. Here is why: Iron and other metals are found in gas and Diesel engine exhaust, as well as in road grit...

Last year I was battling some stains and finally got around to jumping in with a sock filled with crushed vitamin C tablets, and swishing that around the stain seemed to immediately remove some of it. It's a tough process because the vitamin C tablets don't last long in the water...maybe I need...

So I have 18 round Passed overnight loss test after2 weeks Sand filter Using sock and polyfik and DE FC. 10 (slam level) PH. 7.2 TA. 60 CH. 60 Cya. 20-25 (can still see dot but cloudy) last year with my well the polyfil with bucket got so brown and all metal out. This year topped off and...

I purchased a house last year with what I assume is a pretty old pool. There is metal coping that I am assuming is aluminum. I would like to replace the converter decking around the pool because it settled and the coping. Is the coping connected to the pool? How would you remove it? thanks in...

I’m at my wits end. When we opened the pool it was cloudy blue and my husband accidentally left the motor unplugged overnight. The water turned extremely dark green/brown. We have high iron and are on well water so we figured that was why and have been trying to treat it since. I had to shock it...

We just set up a new intex above ground pool Using approximately 1700 gallons of well water. The water is an orange brown after approximately eight hours of filling. We ran the filter a few times and have added metal free additive. Added 5x 1” Chlorine tablets also. Ph is high. Any idea how...

Hi everyone, just opened my pool a few days ago, and I noticed a lot of staining on the floor, sides, and steps of the pool. It was resurfaced with diamond brite last July, and was fine at closing. I scrubbed with a brush, vacuumed, etc and nothing could get the stain out. Just tested the water...

This is our third summer with an inground 20k gallon pool. The first two years we didn't have this problem but this year we had to put a ton of well water into the pool (like half the pool water) since then, we have a constant cycle: shock pool, it's brown, flock it to get rid of the brown...

I followed the process for identifying and then treating iron stains on my vinyl pool, as laid out in the TFP Forum thread here; https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/ascorbic-treatment-to-rid-pool-of-metal-stains.2129/ as well as another detailed version of the same process on another forum...