I have a grainy gray dust on the bottom of my pool that I can't seem to get rid of. I vacuum and clean filter in a few days it is BACK. Please help me figure out what it is and why this is happening. It started end of last season and battles it till pool closing. Cleaned very thorough then closed pool. Just re opened and in 5 days it has returned. All pool levels read correct.
Grainy dust on the bottom of my pool
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rajung
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Just to help make this or future help easier, please add your pool equipment /info in signature.eliminates having to be redundant on what type of system and such you have.
If that stuff disappears quick with a brushing and returns, I would start by thinking it is fine silt/dirt from the air and rain.I fight that stuff at pool opening for a few weeks mainly since I don't cover when closing, and even then don't know if covering would even make that much difference.Adding a skimmer sock helps in basket,always keep clean when dirty or will restrict to pump.Just a starting point, unless you pumped sand somehow into pool if you have a sand filter
If that stuff disappears quick with a brushing and returns, I would start by thinking it is fine silt/dirt from the air and rain.I fight that stuff at pool opening for a few weeks mainly since I don't cover when closing, and even then don't know if covering would even make that much difference.Adding a skimmer sock helps in basket,always keep clean when dirty or will restrict to pump.Just a starting point, unless you pumped sand somehow into pool if you have a sand filter
Thanks for response I thought no one was seeing my post! I thought I put my info in signature so am confused how I go about re checking that. If it is silt why did it only start happening at the end of season last year? I have never had this problem before. I have an above ground 33 by 18 pool with a cartridge filter btw!
No I'm kind of confused on how to use this page we are on. How do I put info in my signature
rajung
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not sure, but some things that effected me with a lot of that very fine almost pixy dust stuff is new house construction behind me and pollen in the air in early spring for a few weeks.Farmers in fields and after all day week long heavy rains.Most is too fine for sand filter to stop.
I have found that once I cover the pool with the solar blanket, it helps in in containing that stuff into smaller piles around pool, and I clean with the pool blaster, instead of it being scattered on floor,somehow the cover and return flow contain that stuff instead of wind across water surface circulating it around.Take a pool brush and just brush some of that stuff lightly once,if you create a dusty looking cloud that goes away and the floor in that spot looks clean, just to come back a little while later with more or less of that stuff not much you can do but continue to clean.
I have found that once I cover the pool with the solar blanket, it helps in in containing that stuff into smaller piles around pool, and I clean with the pool blaster, instead of it being scattered on floor,somehow the cover and return flow contain that stuff instead of wind across water surface circulating it around.Take a pool brush and just brush some of that stuff lightly once,if you create a dusty looking cloud that goes away and the floor in that spot looks clean, just to come back a little while later with more or less of that stuff not much you can do but continue to clean.
Put a picture in photobucket and post a link.
I suspect that you have mustard algae and need to SLAM.
I suspect that you have mustard algae and need to SLAM.
rajung
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Its a cleaner that mounts on brush pole, but do what JamesW posted, it will be a lot easier to start diagnosis.Also how are you getting water condition results?
There are two types of mustard algae. One is yellow. One is kind of a brownish gray/olive green that looks like sand.
Does the material feel gritty?
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Does the material feel gritty?
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Shouldn't be able to feel algae. It might be scale.
Do you have pictures and a full set of test results from a good test kit?
Are you getting any rough scale on the liner?
Do you have pictures and a full set of test results from a good test kit?
Are you getting any rough scale on the liner?
No rough scale on liner but yes when I try to touch it it feels sandy then disappears into a cloud until it resettled. I use a regular test strip not for testing. Should I be testing another way?
I'm pretty sure that it's mustard. A picture would help confirm. I would SLAM. You'll need a good test kit. I recommend the TF-100.
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Ok I will take a pic tomorrow and try to upload it but I'm not sure how to do that unless I can just email it to you? I will def get that not I'm sure Amazon has it!
Upload a picture to photobucket and post a link in your reply.
You can get the test kit from the site I posted above.
You can get the test kit from the site I posted above.
No that's too dark. I downloaded photobucket so I'm wondering now how I would transfer pic link to here?