Hi! this is my first post to this forum and am hopeful that an expert can help me out, as my local pool store has not been able to for several weeks.
I have a 18,000 gallon vinyl lined pool that has been cloudy for ~ 3 months. At the end of the last swimming season I replaced the sand in my Hayward S-200 sand filter, replaced a cracked Hayward Vari-flo valve that was leaking, replaced the polaris booster pump, replaced some pvc piping from the pumps to the filter, and installed a pool slide plumbed to the main pool pump with appropriate ball valves to bypass it when not in use. All of that took several weeks as I worked on it in my limited spare time, and the pool turned green from algae and filled up with leaves while the pumps were not running. When I got everything back together, I killed off the algae with some algaecide, and eventually got all of the leaves out with the Polaris. However, that was two months ago and the water is still cloudy. Visibility is such that i can barely make out the bottom step, and I can barely see the Polaris on the bottom of the shallow end. I tried running the pump 24/7 for several weeks with no improvement. I backed off to running it ~ 5 hours a day several weeks ago. Yesterday i took the Variflo valve apart and inspected the gasket to make sure that it was properly seated, and it was OK. Leslie's tells me the next step is Floccing it with some alum, but I am a little nervous about his as I am a relativity new pool owner and have never done this before. Thye also suggested running the pump 24/7 again.
I have had stable chemistry for at least 6 weeks as I have been testing every 2-3 days with my new digital Lamotte 2056 Color Q Pro 7 test kit.
Here's what I got yesterday:
FAC = 5.0
TAC = 5.0
PH = 7.6
Alkalinity = 101
calcium = 260
CYA = 73
any suggestions?
I have a 18,000 gallon vinyl lined pool that has been cloudy for ~ 3 months. At the end of the last swimming season I replaced the sand in my Hayward S-200 sand filter, replaced a cracked Hayward Vari-flo valve that was leaking, replaced the polaris booster pump, replaced some pvc piping from the pumps to the filter, and installed a pool slide plumbed to the main pool pump with appropriate ball valves to bypass it when not in use. All of that took several weeks as I worked on it in my limited spare time, and the pool turned green from algae and filled up with leaves while the pumps were not running. When I got everything back together, I killed off the algae with some algaecide, and eventually got all of the leaves out with the Polaris. However, that was two months ago and the water is still cloudy. Visibility is such that i can barely make out the bottom step, and I can barely see the Polaris on the bottom of the shallow end. I tried running the pump 24/7 for several weeks with no improvement. I backed off to running it ~ 5 hours a day several weeks ago. Yesterday i took the Variflo valve apart and inspected the gasket to make sure that it was properly seated, and it was OK. Leslie's tells me the next step is Floccing it with some alum, but I am a little nervous about his as I am a relativity new pool owner and have never done this before. Thye also suggested running the pump 24/7 again.
I have had stable chemistry for at least 6 weeks as I have been testing every 2-3 days with my new digital Lamotte 2056 Color Q Pro 7 test kit.
Here's what I got yesterday:
FAC = 5.0
TAC = 5.0
PH = 7.6
Alkalinity = 101
calcium = 260
CYA = 73
any suggestions?