Hi
Forum virgin ... not been on here before and am now a damsel in distress.
I have a 58,000 litre AGP in the ground measuring 10 x 505 - should be a luxury but for two years has been a thorn in my side.
We have only for a short (and I mean short) period of time experience crystal clear water. Despite employing the services of a pool guy (who has cost us heaps of cash) we still can't maintain our pool.
We've tried everything and I mean everything ... we have a creepy crawly, a manual cleaner, started initially with a cartridge filter - have now upgraded to a sand filter. We have a pool blanket (another disaster - another story).
We now have a green pool. So despite a previous horror story with a pool shop, I decided to revisit (a different) pool shop. One that was recommended. The water sample was tested with the following results:
Total dissolved Solids 1550.0
Cyanuric Acid 55.0
Iron -1.0
Free Copper -1.0
Free Chlorine 1.1
Total Chlorine 1.1
PH 7.5
Total Alkalinity 90.0
Calcium Hardness -1.0
Phosphate 0.0
The recommended action was to superchlorinate the pool.
However, following my conversation with the pool shop assistant (about the green colour of my pool) she recommended an Algaecide. So off I went home with Algaecide in possession (a litre bottle).
The pool shop recommended the following:
Back wash the pool - which I did
Deposit 500ml of the algaecide into the pool - which I did
Deposit 500ml of the water clarify (they sold me) into the pool at the same time - which I did
Leave the filter running for 24 hours then vacum residue.
The filter has now been running for 20 hours and the pool is no better ! Am I missing something?
I wrote down the instructions in the shop so that I wouldn't get it wrong but I did notice on the Algaecide bottle that it states use the whole litre for our size pool, leave the filter off for 3 hours and then vaccum to waste.
Could someone please help me ... I'm seconds away from having the pool filled in !
PS I live in Australia and currently experiencing temperatures in excess of 35 degrees (which obviously doesn't help!)
Forum virgin ... not been on here before and am now a damsel in distress.
I have a 58,000 litre AGP in the ground measuring 10 x 505 - should be a luxury but for two years has been a thorn in my side.
We have only for a short (and I mean short) period of time experience crystal clear water. Despite employing the services of a pool guy (who has cost us heaps of cash) we still can't maintain our pool.
We've tried everything and I mean everything ... we have a creepy crawly, a manual cleaner, started initially with a cartridge filter - have now upgraded to a sand filter. We have a pool blanket (another disaster - another story).
We now have a green pool. So despite a previous horror story with a pool shop, I decided to revisit (a different) pool shop. One that was recommended. The water sample was tested with the following results:
Total dissolved Solids 1550.0
Cyanuric Acid 55.0
Iron -1.0
Free Copper -1.0
Free Chlorine 1.1
Total Chlorine 1.1
PH 7.5
Total Alkalinity 90.0
Calcium Hardness -1.0
Phosphate 0.0
The recommended action was to superchlorinate the pool.
However, following my conversation with the pool shop assistant (about the green colour of my pool) she recommended an Algaecide. So off I went home with Algaecide in possession (a litre bottle).
The pool shop recommended the following:
Back wash the pool - which I did
Deposit 500ml of the algaecide into the pool - which I did
Deposit 500ml of the water clarify (they sold me) into the pool at the same time - which I did
Leave the filter running for 24 hours then vacum residue.
The filter has now been running for 20 hours and the pool is no better ! Am I missing something?
I wrote down the instructions in the shop so that I wouldn't get it wrong but I did notice on the Algaecide bottle that it states use the whole litre for our size pool, leave the filter off for 3 hours and then vaccum to waste.
Could someone please help me ... I'm seconds away from having the pool filled in !
PS I live in Australia and currently experiencing temperatures in excess of 35 degrees (which obviously doesn't help!)