So part of it is when I took of my pool cover the stuff on top of it accidentally fell in to the pool... normally I try to prevent that. (I had the pool shut down for the winter.)
I did what I was supposed to... put the PH in range (I think it was 7.5 if I remember), and I saw my CYA was zero. It's odd that I typically lose CYA like that, while others have a problem with high CYA. Maybe with all the heavy rains we had, it took out the CYA. So I raised it up to 40 and then started SLAMming. It seems like it's been more than a week. Now admittedly I hadn't vacuumed it, so I'm guessing that's my problem. I tried going in there today, but the water is just too cold for me to want to go in there. I can't see the bottom as it's too murky, so I don't know what's on the bottom.
I tried running a leaf eater through there, and a bunch of dirt came up, so I think I could have dirt in the bottom. Then the net fell off, and since I can't see through the water, I don't know where the net is. Then I tried using my brush to just mix up the bottom, and the whole pool got noticably browner, and then I saw brown water coming out the jet.
So I figured maybe it needs to be backwashed, though I have been regularly backwashing. I did so, but the water coming out of the backwash didn't seem particularly brown... I hope the filter is working okay. (I have a sand filter.) Maybe it's just that with that much stuff in my water it can't all get caught be the filter so it comes out again in the eyejet? At this point I just mixed up the water as best I could in hopes that the pumping action will run it into my skimmer, and hopefully as long as I regularly backwash the water will get purer? I hope so. I just expected to see dirtier water coming out when I backwashed.
I did what I was supposed to... put the PH in range (I think it was 7.5 if I remember), and I saw my CYA was zero. It's odd that I typically lose CYA like that, while others have a problem with high CYA. Maybe with all the heavy rains we had, it took out the CYA. So I raised it up to 40 and then started SLAMming. It seems like it's been more than a week. Now admittedly I hadn't vacuumed it, so I'm guessing that's my problem. I tried going in there today, but the water is just too cold for me to want to go in there. I can't see the bottom as it's too murky, so I don't know what's on the bottom.
I tried running a leaf eater through there, and a bunch of dirt came up, so I think I could have dirt in the bottom. Then the net fell off, and since I can't see through the water, I don't know where the net is. Then I tried using my brush to just mix up the bottom, and the whole pool got noticably browner, and then I saw brown water coming out the jet.
So I figured maybe it needs to be backwashed, though I have been regularly backwashing. I did so, but the water coming out of the backwash didn't seem particularly brown... I hope the filter is working okay. (I have a sand filter.) Maybe it's just that with that much stuff in my water it can't all get caught be the filter so it comes out again in the eyejet? At this point I just mixed up the water as best I could in hopes that the pumping action will run it into my skimmer, and hopefully as long as I regularly backwash the water will get purer? I hope so. I just expected to see dirtier water coming out when I backwashed.