We're new to pool ownership, we just recently finished with setting and filling our pool this past Saturday. A visit to the pool supply store nearby and back home with loads of chemicals and a strict step by step day by day list of chemicals to begin the process of getting our water clear. We live in an area where we're on a "community" well...water supplied from an aquifer not far from us. We had our water tested at the pool store and for the most part it seemed to be pretty good, just much softer than what is allowed I guess.
So the first day we added 1 lb of shock to the water and two bright sticks to the floater. The following day we we're supposed to add the first 12 lbs of calcium, but we had major rain and storms here so we held off until yesterday. On Sunday night (once the rain subsided) we did add the 8 oz of algicide and 8 oz of clear blue 2000 (I think that's what it's called) and ran the pump all night. Yesterday morning we added another pound of shock (because we got almost 8" of rain on Sunday and we had to drain the pool some) and last night we finally added the first 12 pounds of calcium. Also I should mention our water has been a slight brown/rust color ever since we filled it and it looked like by yesterday afternoon that it had lightened up just a tad bit. Except for this morning when we checked it, there is all of this brown streaks all over the bottom of pool and when we take the brush to it, it spreads out into the water and looks like it disappears but once it settles again it's all over the pool bottom again.
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to what or how to get rid of the rust/brown tint of the water? Or if we should be following a different chemical regimen?
So the first day we added 1 lb of shock to the water and two bright sticks to the floater. The following day we we're supposed to add the first 12 lbs of calcium, but we had major rain and storms here so we held off until yesterday. On Sunday night (once the rain subsided) we did add the 8 oz of algicide and 8 oz of clear blue 2000 (I think that's what it's called) and ran the pump all night. Yesterday morning we added another pound of shock (because we got almost 8" of rain on Sunday and we had to drain the pool some) and last night we finally added the first 12 pounds of calcium. Also I should mention our water has been a slight brown/rust color ever since we filled it and it looked like by yesterday afternoon that it had lightened up just a tad bit. Except for this morning when we checked it, there is all of this brown streaks all over the bottom of pool and when we take the brush to it, it spreads out into the water and looks like it disappears but once it settles again it's all over the pool bottom again.
Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to what or how to get rid of the rust/brown tint of the water? Or if we should be following a different chemical regimen?