Hello,
First time pool owner, just bought a new house that has a 28' Doughboy aboveground vinyl pool. Pump wasn't working for about a week (clogged?) and the water from nice sparkling clear to swamp water.
We used a local pool shop and added over $350 worth of chemicals over about a two week span, everything from a "balancer" to help the chlorine be effective and stabilize, to a pH reducer, to over 20-30 1lb packs of Burnout 73, and a full bottle of "pool tonic". I have since myself added over 9 gallons of bleach to help as our free chlorine was only ever at 0.2 or lower.
At this point, we are starting to smell chlorine a little, and the water is now at least blue, but still very cloudy, can see your hand maybe down 8" or so then it disappears. There appears to be no algae at this point.
Is there something else we should do in order to get back to clear water or just keep adding chlorine/bleach? Is it possibly time to change the sand in our sand filter? It sounds involved and just not sure if it is necessary (pool is going on 2.5 years old now, presuming sand hasn't been changed by previous owner).
Just looking for some advice, feeling frustrated that we are just pouring money down the drain in chemicals with nothing to show for it....
Hopeful encouragement?! Lol.
First time pool owner, just bought a new house that has a 28' Doughboy aboveground vinyl pool. Pump wasn't working for about a week (clogged?) and the water from nice sparkling clear to swamp water.
We used a local pool shop and added over $350 worth of chemicals over about a two week span, everything from a "balancer" to help the chlorine be effective and stabilize, to a pH reducer, to over 20-30 1lb packs of Burnout 73, and a full bottle of "pool tonic". I have since myself added over 9 gallons of bleach to help as our free chlorine was only ever at 0.2 or lower.
At this point, we are starting to smell chlorine a little, and the water is now at least blue, but still very cloudy, can see your hand maybe down 8" or so then it disappears. There appears to be no algae at this point.
Is there something else we should do in order to get back to clear water or just keep adding chlorine/bleach? Is it possibly time to change the sand in our sand filter? It sounds involved and just not sure if it is necessary (pool is going on 2.5 years old now, presuming sand hasn't been changed by previous owner).
Just looking for some advice, feeling frustrated that we are just pouring money down the drain in chemicals with nothing to show for it....
Hopeful encouragement?! Lol.