I've been up since 5:30 and already been through 3 cups!! Catch up! LOL
No. Last Summer all Summer long I seemed to be fighting algae. No sooner would I scrub the pool and two days later, brown/green spots on the sides and bottom again. Near the end of August we had started getting crappy weather which also made swimming impossible. I also started running out of chemicals and was not about to buy more because by then, I had already come across this site (looking for info for my algae problem) and was reading up on the TFP method. I had it in my head I wanted to try that this year. Anyway, I let the pool go at that point and it was pretty crappy when they came to close it. But they tossed chemicals in anyway and we said we'd just deal with it this year when we opened.
So this year when they opened it of course was green. But it had always been green every year before that (just not as bad) and it was always remedied by triple shocking at opening. Every year before it literally went like this.......open to a green pool, triple shock on opening day, next day blue water but cloudy, I would then vacuum up the junk that day, let filter continue to run, day 3 clear! At that point we'd take a water sample to the pool store and adjust accordingly. And every year it went well doing that except for last year. Every time we'd go in last year we'd tell them about the algae problem but they kept telling us they saw no reason why we should be having issues, that the sample didn't show any problems. It was frustrating for all of us.
This year that easy open/clearing did NOT happen and I even quadruple shocked it from the get go 'cause I knew the state I left it in when closing last year. Needless to say it was still green the next day and I think it was day 3 that we went to the pool store (made my first post here) and they gave us the Alk increaser and that Back To Blue stuff. We went home and added both, followed the directions the pool store owner gave us and cleaned up accordingly. So it was ultimately that stuff that DID get us back to clean, clear water and left us with those test result numbers I posted the other day. I have NOT added anything in other than that stuff and now the bleach since starting this process.
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Huh? Yesterday I put stuff in around 3 (and all morning and day long). That was it until I got home at 8 and I added 4 gallons a little after 8 pm when I got home and tested (checked it 30 min after that and it was 13.6, I believe). Then this am I got up, tested, and added 1 gallon (which was more than the calc called for).
And I have been brushing, vacuuming, cleaning skimmer, etc. all along. As for ladders and such, nothing is in the pool. We don't use rails or ladders in our pool and I already took the light out and cleaned. Yesterday I went around every jet, skimmer fixture, etc. with a toothbrush to clean.
No. Last Summer all Summer long I seemed to be fighting algae. No sooner would I scrub the pool and two days later, brown/green spots on the sides and bottom again. Near the end of August we had started getting crappy weather which also made swimming impossible. I also started running out of chemicals and was not about to buy more because by then, I had already come across this site (looking for info for my algae problem) and was reading up on the TFP method. I had it in my head I wanted to try that this year. Anyway, I let the pool go at that point and it was pretty crappy when they came to close it. But they tossed chemicals in anyway and we said we'd just deal with it this year when we opened.
So this year when they opened it of course was green. But it had always been green every year before that (just not as bad) and it was always remedied by triple shocking at opening. Every year before it literally went like this.......open to a green pool, triple shock on opening day, next day blue water but cloudy, I would then vacuum up the junk that day, let filter continue to run, day 3 clear! At that point we'd take a water sample to the pool store and adjust accordingly. And every year it went well doing that except for last year. Every time we'd go in last year we'd tell them about the algae problem but they kept telling us they saw no reason why we should be having issues, that the sample didn't show any problems. It was frustrating for all of us.
This year that easy open/clearing did NOT happen and I even quadruple shocked it from the get go 'cause I knew the state I left it in when closing last year. Needless to say it was still green the next day and I think it was day 3 that we went to the pool store (made my first post here) and they gave us the Alk increaser and that Back To Blue stuff. We went home and added both, followed the directions the pool store owner gave us and cleaned up accordingly. So it was ultimately that stuff that DID get us back to clean, clear water and left us with those test result numbers I posted the other day. I have NOT added anything in other than that stuff and now the bleach since starting this process.
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Huh? Yesterday I put stuff in around 3 (and all morning and day long). That was it until I got home at 8 and I added 4 gallons a little after 8 pm when I got home and tested (checked it 30 min after that and it was 13.6, I believe). Then this am I got up, tested, and added 1 gallon (which was more than the calc called for).
And I have been brushing, vacuuming, cleaning skimmer, etc. all along. As for ladders and such, nothing is in the pool. We don't use rails or ladders in our pool and I already took the light out and cleaned. Yesterday I went around every jet, skimmer fixture, etc. with a toothbrush to clean.
I went back through the thread, the first "post test" addition of chlorine was 36 hours ago
Test and add every few hours, get in a brushing if the rain stops for 20 minutes. Also, standard reminder to remove any ladders, lights and check behind weir doors for stray algae.
