Hello, I’m a new pool owner and actually waiting on our final “pool cleanup” and getting the water balanced. My upfront question is, is it normal to use 6 gallons of MA in order to try and quickly breakdown scaling on a fiberglass pool?
Backstory for more context:
Our pool sat with water in it for 2-3 months with no equipment/circulation/chemicals and turned into a nasty swamp, literally, frogs and all. Concrete got finished about a month ago around the edges, so they started to attempt to clean it then. They got it somewhat clear, but it had a ton of scaling on sides and bottom from sitting for so long, and it wasn’t brushing off, so they threw some Scaletec in it and said it needed to sit for a couple weeks. Oh, we also still did not have equipment until last weekend, so still no other chemicals or circulation. Of course the pool turned almost black within two weeks. We finally got equipment installed and they came back out to start cleaning again. The guy ended up just adding some type of flock that he said would kill and drop all the algae to the bottom and he’d brush and vacuum it up the next day. He initially started to use his external pump/filter but stopped and turned our pump/filter on because he said there was no rock and was just algae so that’s what our equipment was built to filter out. He said the water would look crystal clear the next morning (it did not, was still slightly green and super cloudy), and he’d just vacuum it out and use Scaletec to keep breaking down the scaling. He couldn’t come out the next day so another guy was sent. I asked about the flock being used while having my cartridge filter now filtering the water because I since read that you should push flock through a cartridge filter. He mentioned something about cleaning the cartridge filters and checked out the scaling. Then said not to swim in the pool because he was going to shut off all the equipment and add 6 gallons of MA (yesterday) and come back today to brush the pool, then come back Friday to vacuum and balance the water. I’m actually not really sure how he plans to brush the pool very week because the water’s cloudiness has not changed and you can’t see half of the sides or the bottom to even tell if anything is brushing off or where you brushed.
I may have missed some details, but this is essentially where we’re at right now. I can’t (or don’t want to) test the water myself right now because it’s just full of MA and has had nothing else really added so
I’m sure the levels are WAY off and he’s coming back on Friday to throw more stuff in it…so I was going to do a test on Saturday to get at least some baseline for myself so I also have a little more piece of mind.
Backstory for more context:
Our pool sat with water in it for 2-3 months with no equipment/circulation/chemicals and turned into a nasty swamp, literally, frogs and all. Concrete got finished about a month ago around the edges, so they started to attempt to clean it then. They got it somewhat clear, but it had a ton of scaling on sides and bottom from sitting for so long, and it wasn’t brushing off, so they threw some Scaletec in it and said it needed to sit for a couple weeks. Oh, we also still did not have equipment until last weekend, so still no other chemicals or circulation. Of course the pool turned almost black within two weeks. We finally got equipment installed and they came back out to start cleaning again. The guy ended up just adding some type of flock that he said would kill and drop all the algae to the bottom and he’d brush and vacuum it up the next day. He initially started to use his external pump/filter but stopped and turned our pump/filter on because he said there was no rock and was just algae so that’s what our equipment was built to filter out. He said the water would look crystal clear the next morning (it did not, was still slightly green and super cloudy), and he’d just vacuum it out and use Scaletec to keep breaking down the scaling. He couldn’t come out the next day so another guy was sent. I asked about the flock being used while having my cartridge filter now filtering the water because I since read that you should push flock through a cartridge filter. He mentioned something about cleaning the cartridge filters and checked out the scaling. Then said not to swim in the pool because he was going to shut off all the equipment and add 6 gallons of MA (yesterday) and come back today to brush the pool, then come back Friday to vacuum and balance the water. I’m actually not really sure how he plans to brush the pool very week because the water’s cloudiness has not changed and you can’t see half of the sides or the bottom to even tell if anything is brushing off or where you brushed.
I may have missed some details, but this is essentially where we’re at right now. I can’t (or don’t want to) test the water myself right now because it’s just full of MA and has had nothing else really added so
I’m sure the levels are WAY off and he’s coming back on Friday to throw more stuff in it…so I was going to do a test on Saturday to get at least some baseline for myself so I also have a little more piece of mind.
