Good Morning,
I just purchased a home a few months ago that had a pool (built in 1990 if that matters). It's a 23k gallon gunite with a Hayward sand filter and Kreepy Krauly sweep. The deep end and tops of steps has some brownish stains - I believe these are organic because I placed a chlorine puck on one of the stains for a few minutes and it cleared up a in a circle. I found some pictures of the backyard from when the home was foreclosed on in 2012 and it looks like the pool was drained and left as a swamp in the deep end.
Since purchasing I have been running the filter 3 hours a day, sweeping weekly, backwashing monthly, and keeping the chlorine tab floater replenished with about 3 pucks at any given time. This has kept the pool fairly clean for the winter since we are not using it. I had the water tested a couple times from a pool store and they said everything looked fine.
Now that it has started to warm up in CA, I've noticed that it got a little cloudy, so I upped the filter time to 6 hrs/day. Then I found this great forum and figured I would check in here before going any further. Based on the advice here, I bought a Taylor K-2006 and just ran my first test:
CC - Filled tube to 10ML and put to .5 dippers of 0870 - turned pink right away
FC - 4.0 PPM
PH - 7.0
Alkalinity - 80
CH - 320
CYA - >100 it was about 1/2 an inch below the 100 mark!!
Any advice on where to go from here? Also, will getting the chemicals all balanced right remove the organic stains on their own or will I need something different for that problem?
Thanks,
Aaron
I just purchased a home a few months ago that had a pool (built in 1990 if that matters). It's a 23k gallon gunite with a Hayward sand filter and Kreepy Krauly sweep. The deep end and tops of steps has some brownish stains - I believe these are organic because I placed a chlorine puck on one of the stains for a few minutes and it cleared up a in a circle. I found some pictures of the backyard from when the home was foreclosed on in 2012 and it looks like the pool was drained and left as a swamp in the deep end.
Since purchasing I have been running the filter 3 hours a day, sweeping weekly, backwashing monthly, and keeping the chlorine tab floater replenished with about 3 pucks at any given time. This has kept the pool fairly clean for the winter since we are not using it. I had the water tested a couple times from a pool store and they said everything looked fine.
Now that it has started to warm up in CA, I've noticed that it got a little cloudy, so I upped the filter time to 6 hrs/day. Then I found this great forum and figured I would check in here before going any further. Based on the advice here, I bought a Taylor K-2006 and just ran my first test:
CC - Filled tube to 10ML and put to .5 dippers of 0870 - turned pink right away
FC - 4.0 PPM
PH - 7.0
Alkalinity - 80
CH - 320
CYA - >100 it was about 1/2 an inch below the 100 mark!!
Any advice on where to go from here? Also, will getting the chemicals all balanced right remove the organic stains on their own or will I need something different for that problem?
Thanks,
Aaron