Hello,
Still fairly new to all of this. In the past month I have drained my pool completey, acid washed it, filled it back up. Since i have done this my pool is nice and blue, well blue anyway. I notice white powder in the bottom of my pool all the time now. I have swept and vacuumed the pool every other day for the past week and still cloudy and powdery. I noticed tonight that when my pump kicked on my returns were feeding the white powder into my pool. I have a D.E Filter and I backwashed 5 days after filling my pool back up. I was told to wait that long since i added stabilizer when i filled the pool. My test results are:
FC 7
Ph 7.6
Alk 90
CYA 40
TDS 400
CH 260
It must be stable because I am not having to add anything for the past 3 days. I test every night and every morning since i filled the pool 2 weeks ago. I use bleech to add the Chlorine and I have one float with 3ea 3" tabs in it. My pool is 18,000 gallon in ground gunite pool with white walls and an attached jacuzzi. I have the main drain open all the time unless i am vacuuming, I have the skimmers open all the time, I have the jacuzzi drain partially open unless we are in it then i close the drain. I run my polaris 360 when the pump is on 10 hours a day. I do not have a multi position valve. I backwash using a T style valve.
What do i need to do to get the returns to stop feeding the powder (I am assuming D.E.) back into the pool?
Still fairly new to all of this. In the past month I have drained my pool completey, acid washed it, filled it back up. Since i have done this my pool is nice and blue, well blue anyway. I notice white powder in the bottom of my pool all the time now. I have swept and vacuumed the pool every other day for the past week and still cloudy and powdery. I noticed tonight that when my pump kicked on my returns were feeding the white powder into my pool. I have a D.E Filter and I backwashed 5 days after filling my pool back up. I was told to wait that long since i added stabilizer when i filled the pool. My test results are:
FC 7
Ph 7.6
Alk 90
CYA 40
TDS 400
CH 260
It must be stable because I am not having to add anything for the past 3 days. I test every night and every morning since i filled the pool 2 weeks ago. I use bleech to add the Chlorine and I have one float with 3ea 3" tabs in it. My pool is 18,000 gallon in ground gunite pool with white walls and an attached jacuzzi. I have the main drain open all the time unless i am vacuuming, I have the skimmers open all the time, I have the jacuzzi drain partially open unless we are in it then i close the drain. I run my polaris 360 when the pump is on 10 hours a day. I do not have a multi position valve. I backwash using a T style valve.
What do i need to do to get the returns to stop feeding the powder (I am assuming D.E.) back into the pool?