I noticed that my backwash hose has a few gallons worth of sand near then end of it. Obviously this means I'm losing sand in the back wash process and since we bought this house a year ago I'm thinking that the previous owner did little to care for the pool the way they should have. I started wondering "how old is my sand?" And "is there any left in the tank?"
The guy at Leslie's (no I don't frequent them) said to pop the top on the sand filter and check the level. He said that it should still be sandy and not clumpy. Clumpy sand is bad.
So I did. I popped the top off and then stirred the sand a little. It flows very freely, but I did have some concern about the color. I have about a half inch to quarter of an inch of BLACK sand on top of an under layer of greyish sand. I'm less concerned about the grey than the BLACK. EEK!
New sand time? Or do I need one of those pool filter enzymes to eat up the blackness? Or is this entirely normal?
I'm guessing it is a bio build up from the dead skin, hair and oils off of the swimmers that have been in the pool since the sand was put in.
When I change I want to flip over to a Zeobright type product (have had GREAT results in the past with that) any thoughts on Zeo?
The guy at Leslie's (no I don't frequent them) said to pop the top on the sand filter and check the level. He said that it should still be sandy and not clumpy. Clumpy sand is bad.
So I did. I popped the top off and then stirred the sand a little. It flows very freely, but I did have some concern about the color. I have about a half inch to quarter of an inch of BLACK sand on top of an under layer of greyish sand. I'm less concerned about the grey than the BLACK. EEK!
New sand time? Or do I need one of those pool filter enzymes to eat up the blackness? Or is this entirely normal?
I'm guessing it is a bio build up from the dead skin, hair and oils off of the swimmers that have been in the pool since the sand was put in.
When I change I want to flip over to a Zeobright type product (have had GREAT results in the past with that) any thoughts on Zeo?