We have a 2yr old above ground SW pool with a Hayward Perflex DE filter and Perplex Aqua Trol SWG. Things have been amazing & we've had to do very little maintenance until.... we had a lot of rain and I attempted to syphon a small amount of water out and ended up taking practically half the pool water out. I had the water tested at the pool store and made the necessary adjustments but, being a novice, I made a mistake by not mixing enough water with the calcium hardness increaser (I had to add 5lb 4oz). The directions from the pool store print out simply said mix with an "ample" amount of water and pour the "sludgy mixture" around the perimeter. Sometime later I noticed that there were whitish gray granules in small clumps at the bottom of the pool, settling in the small wrinkles of the vinyl lining. I tried pushing them around with a brush several times but they always settled back down. We ended up sucking it all up with the vacuum and thought the problem was solved because nothing kicked back into the pool (phew). Then problem number two occurred when our cell wouldn’t generate chlorine. Luckily the mfg. offered to send a replacement which we are waiting for, but in the meantime, I noticed that the sediment is back at the bottom of the pool. I'm at a loss. One thing to note is the fact that I ran the filter for 24 hours straight, turning up the t-cell dial to 100% in the hopes of generating chlorine. Our salt level was high, around 4000ppm, so I was told by the pool store people that simply turning up the percentage from 50% to 100% would solve the problem.
We live in NJ and want to close the pool once the new cell arrives and we can get the chlorine up to proper levels (and everything else). But I'm concerned about how to solve this sediment issue. Vacuuming it up again doesn't seem the way to go unless we do it to waste, but everything I've researched indicates that we can't do that with the type of equipment we have. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
We live in NJ and want to close the pool once the new cell arrives and we can get the chlorine up to proper levels (and everything else). But I'm concerned about how to solve this sediment issue. Vacuuming it up again doesn't seem the way to go unless we do it to waste, but everything I've researched indicates that we can't do that with the type of equipment we have. I'm at a loss. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.