- Sep 15, 2008
- 145
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
I'm pretty thorough when it comes to treating my pool, but these past 2 weeks left me to question my abilities. I had an elusive problem where my chlorine levels were tanking to near zero ppm! Hoping to nip this problem in the bud, I went to the pool school page and went through the regimen of shocking & brushing my pool several times and cleaning my DE filter. After the passing of a week or so, the chlorine levels started tanking once again! I was wondering what the heck is getting into the pool to cause such a thing? So I installed a skimmer sock to see if there were "things" making their way into the DE filter. After inspecting my skimmer sock 24 hours later, it was loaded with very tiny insects small enough to make it through my screened pool enclosure! Appears that this was enough of an organic load to bring my SWCG to its knees! It was the first time in 4 years that this has ever happened, I am a firm believer in using skimmer socks ... now I can set my SWCG to a lower setting too and hopefully extend the SWCG's usefulness too
Cheers!
KARL
Cheers!
KARL