We opened our pool 9 days ago and have had nothing but trouble so far. Hopefully, someone will be able to help.
We have a 15700 gal, above ground, salt water pool with a cartridge filter. This is our 2nd season with pool. Have been running pump non-stop but can not get milky water clear. Our 1st test showed no FC, no CYA but everything else was okay. Added dry stabilizer and set chlorinator to high. Re-tested around 24 hrs later, CYA was close to 30 (added more stabilizer), FC was still 0 (added 2 lbs of shock).
This might be a good time to explain that we had a question that our salt water chlorinator, towards end of last season, was not working. Called company and they walked me through cleaning it with mixture of water and muriatic acid. Right after, we had closed pool for year. Called them again a few days ago, and said we first had to get nitrates, phosphates, total dissolved solids and pH at correct levels, then they will talk about chlorinator. So, my Taylor kit didn't test those things, I took to pool store. Everything was good, except very very high phosphates.
Went to Lowes bought and added to pool, 2 bottles of phosphate reducer, along with more dry chlorine. 2 days later nothing changed. Back to pool store to test again. Phosphates still off chart. Now I bought their Super Phospate Reducer ($40 a bottle), and calcium for hardness (they said was low), along with 2 more bags of vinyl shock). Now this is getting expensive AND pump has been running entire week.
2 days later test again....another half bottle of phosphate reducer and 2 more bags of shock....today STILL looks the same!!!! BTW we started cleaning filter 2x day, starting yesterday we did 3x and today we will do 4x day, although pressure never goes above normal. We also been vacuuming.
I now bought our own Taylor phosphate kit and will re-test later today but pool still looks the same, so I am sure numbers haven't gotten much better, if at all.
Other then draining the whole pool (which I don't even have a clue how to do and where water would go) or expense of refilling, I hope someone can help!
Thanks.
We have a 15700 gal, above ground, salt water pool with a cartridge filter. This is our 2nd season with pool. Have been running pump non-stop but can not get milky water clear. Our 1st test showed no FC, no CYA but everything else was okay. Added dry stabilizer and set chlorinator to high. Re-tested around 24 hrs later, CYA was close to 30 (added more stabilizer), FC was still 0 (added 2 lbs of shock).
This might be a good time to explain that we had a question that our salt water chlorinator, towards end of last season, was not working. Called company and they walked me through cleaning it with mixture of water and muriatic acid. Right after, we had closed pool for year. Called them again a few days ago, and said we first had to get nitrates, phosphates, total dissolved solids and pH at correct levels, then they will talk about chlorinator. So, my Taylor kit didn't test those things, I took to pool store. Everything was good, except very very high phosphates.
Went to Lowes bought and added to pool, 2 bottles of phosphate reducer, along with more dry chlorine. 2 days later nothing changed. Back to pool store to test again. Phosphates still off chart. Now I bought their Super Phospate Reducer ($40 a bottle), and calcium for hardness (they said was low), along with 2 more bags of vinyl shock). Now this is getting expensive AND pump has been running entire week.
2 days later test again....another half bottle of phosphate reducer and 2 more bags of shock....today STILL looks the same!!!! BTW we started cleaning filter 2x day, starting yesterday we did 3x and today we will do 4x day, although pressure never goes above normal. We also been vacuuming.
I now bought our own Taylor phosphate kit and will re-test later today but pool still looks the same, so I am sure numbers haven't gotten much better, if at all.
Other then draining the whole pool (which I don't even have a clue how to do and where water would go) or expense of refilling, I hope someone can help!
Thanks.