I recently purchased a home with a pool and I must admit I am a little overwhelmed right now. I knew nothing about pools coming into this and it is slowly turning into a money pit. I have already had to replace filter elements, a pump seal, then all of the chemicals.
The water was very cloudywhen I bought it...turned out it was bad filter elelments letting DE pass. I finally got that problem resolved, but now I have a problem with algea growing on the walls. I shock and brush and within a few days it's back! I have never been able to get the water to really sparkle.
I took a sample to the pool store this morning and here are the readinsgs.
Temp - 90
Saturation idx - 0.4
TDS - 750
CYA - 63
TC - 0.5
FC - 0
pH - 7.7
TA - 106
Adjusted TA - 87
Total Hardness - 314
I was told to add 4 scoops of bicarb and wait 2 hours. Add 1 1/2 scoops aof acid, then wait another hour and add 3 lbs of shock. She said I needed to get TC and FC balanced out and then add an algeacide. She said that algeacide was the only thing that would get rid of mustard algea. After reading this forum, I am to believe that chlorine is all that is needed to get rid of it. Any help is appreciated.
The water was very cloudywhen I bought it...turned out it was bad filter elelments letting DE pass. I finally got that problem resolved, but now I have a problem with algea growing on the walls. I shock and brush and within a few days it's back! I have never been able to get the water to really sparkle.
I took a sample to the pool store this morning and here are the readinsgs.
Temp - 90
Saturation idx - 0.4
TDS - 750
CYA - 63
TC - 0.5
FC - 0
pH - 7.7
TA - 106
Adjusted TA - 87
Total Hardness - 314
I was told to add 4 scoops of bicarb and wait 2 hours. Add 1 1/2 scoops aof acid, then wait another hour and add 3 lbs of shock. She said I needed to get TC and FC balanced out and then add an algeacide. She said that algeacide was the only thing that would get rid of mustard algea. After reading this forum, I am to believe that chlorine is all that is needed to get rid of it. Any help is appreciated.