Beautech Made pool Cloudy

[localyardpros]

Hello all.

Added a bottle of Beautech to a pool in Indiana on 6/9/23. Water started to turn cloudy on Tuesday 6/13/23 and by Thursday 6/15 it was all the way cloudy, cant see bottom step.

fiberglass pool
cartridge filter

I cleaned the filter on Tuesday, normal amount of debris came out. I clean the filter every week

using a taylor test kit chemistry on Tuesday was
Chlorine 10
Ph 8 (5drops to bring it down to 7.4)
Alkalinity120
Salt 2590
(normal is 3060 so i added a 1/2 bag of salt)

Salt cell has a clear housing that you can see into and on the return side of it, it has always been retuning cloudy water. This was never an issue because the filter was always able to filter it out. Any ideas how to fix the cloudy pool?

 

[Texas Splash]

Welcome to TFP! Which Beautech product specifically did you add? Scale control? Can you confirm which Taylor kit you are using and what is the pool's current CYA level?

 

[PoolStored]

Is this what you added?

Best I can tell, you added sodium hydroxide to the pool (SDS).

https://go.lupinsys.com/waterco/harms/public/materials/5f82bd7671bed8a3f1f493b901459a04-published/attachments_api/f27f9985c226a1b673e285ea8c62331c/search_api/BEAUTEC_SCALE_STAIN_SCUM_CONTROLLER-AUS_SDS.pdf

Sodium hydroxide is quite hazardous and should only be handled by someone who knows how to do it safely. In general, I would advise people to avoid dealing with it in favor of something safer. It will raise the pH quite a bit with minimal TA rise.

Why did you add this product?

Likely that the chlorine will take care of it, but let's get @JoyfulNoise @JamesW to weigh in...

 

[Jimrahbe]

L,

You clean your cartridge filter once a week!!!!!!

Wow.. I clean mine twice a year and could go a whole year if I wanted.

Something is wrong as you just should not have to clean your filter that often.

Why do you clean it that often? What indication are you using that tells you it is time to clean the filter?

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

If there was algaecide or a clarifier used in the pool water and you added the scale inhibitor to it, then the cloudiness is a direct result of the chemical interaction between them. Algaecide and clarifiers are typically positively charged organic compounds and scale inhibitors (metal chelators) are negatively charged organic phosphates. When the two combine they react to form a microscopic insoluble precipitate that will cloud up the water pretty badly.

If that is the case then all you can do is filter and vacuum until the clarity is restored.