The easy way to AA!
I put 100 supermarket vitamin C tablets in a sock, tied a knot in it, and zip tied it to the end of my pool pole.
Turned the pump off, started rubbing the sock around the stained areas of my pool, probably 10 square feet of stained area all around my pool. Rubbing put a hole in the sock and a couple tablets fell out, so I changed to a rolling action which worked well (kinda crushes the tablets as you go). Doesn’t need to be perfect, the AA hangs around after you move to the next area.
I’m not gonna say it’s perfect but the stains are substantially less. Total cost $3, total time taken 15 minutes, total AA added to pool 50g (less than 2oz), no rebalancing necessary.
The traditional way I would have had to add 1.5lbs of AA and some algaecide and then rebalance for days, this was way easier than that! I may do a second treatment in a week or so to get a few spots I missed the first time.
For months I thought I had mustard algae and had been slamming and scrubbing. Should have done the vitamin C tablet test months ago, I didn’t have mustard algae, I had iron stains. Still don’t know how the iron got into the pool (no ladder) but that’s a mystery for another time.
I put 100 supermarket vitamin C tablets in a sock, tied a knot in it, and zip tied it to the end of my pool pole.
Turned the pump off, started rubbing the sock around the stained areas of my pool, probably 10 square feet of stained area all around my pool. Rubbing put a hole in the sock and a couple tablets fell out, so I changed to a rolling action which worked well (kinda crushes the tablets as you go). Doesn’t need to be perfect, the AA hangs around after you move to the next area.
I’m not gonna say it’s perfect but the stains are substantially less. Total cost $3, total time taken 15 minutes, total AA added to pool 50g (less than 2oz), no rebalancing necessary.
The traditional way I would have had to add 1.5lbs of AA and some algaecide and then rebalance for days, this was way easier than that! I may do a second treatment in a week or so to get a few spots I missed the first time.
For months I thought I had mustard algae and had been slamming and scrubbing. Should have done the vitamin C tablet test months ago, I didn’t have mustard algae, I had iron stains. Still don’t know how the iron got into the pool (no ladder) but that’s a mystery for another time.
Cheap resolution with less time = satisfied owner. Nice.
