frustratedpoolmom said:
Pogo, it's best to keep all your pool issue -related questions in one thread, it gets too confusing otherwise.
Sorry, since the questions were not specifically related to each other or the forum now posted in, I decided to disperse them. Also it seemed to me that putting 3 different things in one topic would be confusing rather than the alternative. I have found that many people won't read past the first or second issue in a single long posting and some additional comments/answers will be missed by such multiple postings. (this based on several years as a forum moderator myself)
But it's your site/forum, so from now on I'll lump them as you prefer.
> I'm sorry if I am slow on the uptake. I was a machinist before getting disabled, not a chemist. This stuff is completely foreign to me. Also, since becoming disabled, I am on more medications than I care to think about and they have had an impact on my comprehension or detail retention. I ask you to please bear with me. I am trying/doing the best I can.
You have to ask yourself if you want to go thru the expense of balancing your pool if you are just going to empty it.
We (wife & I) did consider that question. First of all, the pool is a medical asset as much as pleasure for us. In my case moreso since I really don't find swimming that much fun ever since I nearly drowned once as a kid. I had 'gone down for the third time,' as the old gag line goes, when they hauled me out.
Secondly, we are questioning if we might get better rates on relining by doing it later in the year when these pool guys aren't so busy. In Spring they're naturally hopping.
Third, depends upon the answer to one of the questions I've posted that are now herein and to which I do not believe we have an answer: to whit, do we want to do liner replacement or landscaping first???
Is the relining the pool something you plan to tackle this year? That was not made clear.
That is because it's not clear to me.
This year? yes.
What time this year? well, that depends in part on the answer to one of the questions I've posted that are now herein and to which I do not believe we have an answer: to whit, do we want to do liner replacement or landscaping first???
Also, if we might get better rates on relining by doing it later in the year when these pool guys aren't so busy.
back around to needing the pool for medical reasons, and, this just now occurred to me, that as a frog pond it is a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
Right now we have so many issues, interviewing, carpenters, pavers, concrete people, roofers, plumbers, 'handymen,' landscapers (haven't got to them yet at all)
andddd pool people, along with dealing with VA, deceased Bro-in-law's estate, farm issues and a whole lot of other things all at the same time and that with with my greatly diminished capacities and no, nothing is very clear just at the moment.
That's what I was seeking here, some clarity... (ye-
gads! a pun! Completely unintended but about now I need a little humor.
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As for clearing your pool, this issue was discussed briefly on the two threads you started regarding your filter/pump combo, but it didn't progress to the point of discussing how to clear your pool.
Did you decide to replace your filter/pump, or are you going to work with what you have? We're of two minds on that and not yet decided. We want to install a swg. It has been suggested that a cart filtration system would actually be better. My wife supports this view. But I'm the one who has to clean the bloody filters and am heartily sick of it (cleaning the darn thing 3-4-more times a week) and am all for a sand filter. We intend to speak to some more people about it, get more information on the subject, before making a final decision. A very likely possibility is a larger cartridge system.
You should read Defeating Algae, and How to Shock your Pool in Pool School for starters.
I did. It is largely oriented towards people who have sand filters, which I don't.
I had the algae killed to the white/gray stage already and just needed to clear it out. It was suggested that flockinig was not recommended and that it could take up to a week to clean it with a sand filter (which I don't have) Under these conditions, my cartridge will clog up easily within 15-20 minutes. I can't begin to imagine how long cleaning the pool that way might take. Last year we flocked it and the stuff dropped completely, overnight (as the article mentions) and we then just vacuumed the stuff out minus the filter. Took 20 minutes to get the worst. That's what I was shooting for this year only the flock treatment didn't work completely. It lumped the stuff up just fine but it didn't drop, not over night, not in 36+ hours.
I just wanted an opinion of my flocking malfunction. I didn't try a full water analysis since my test chemicals were, are suspect. I now fear I got a fault pH reading which would explain why my flocking didn't work anyway.
Without current test results, we can't give you proper advice.
I didn't try a full water analysis since my test chemicals were, are suspect. I now fear I got a fault pH reading which would explain why my flocking didn't work anyway.
I'm going to town today and I'll get a water test at the pool store and compare results just to see what comes up, realizing the pool store might not have it right either. But we insist on working with the store manager who has many years in the pool business and at least gives the method employed here the nod if mentioned and whom I believe, is familiar with her testing equipment. If
that (the equipment) is right, I cannot say.
So, I'm sorry to have bothered y'all. I'll get my water clear and try to pick up what I can here without asking so many questions.
Apologies too, for the length of this but didn't see any way to avoid it unless by making a number of separate replies.
Again, sorry. I can't do any better.
