Hello everyone, I'm new to the community, my coworker introduced me here with tftestkits and pool math app. He's been managing his pool fantastic, while my wife and I have been struggling really bad.
So we recently purchased our house, happens to have an inground pool. I'm assuming it's 34' x 16' and from 1' deep to 7' deep. I heard it's 13000 gallon pool (from the previous owner)
So, of course we knew nothing when we moved which was in May, and in the end of May, we finally took off the winter cover.. the water seemed very clean but then by the time algae grew - did not pay attention because we didn't know but tried to fix other important things (leaky roof near the chimney, floaded basement because of poorly routed gutter, etc..)
My wife scrubbed and cleaned really hard, she tried to learn, because of the budget issue, never been able to hire anyone. I got a manual vacuum and connected a sump pump - previous owner used it for the water on the winter cover.
We turned on the hayward 0.75 HP filter pump some time to time - didn't know that we had to run it for awhile everyday. And got a chlorine liquid stuff and poured it. Seemed getting better it stopped working then we didn't manage it orooerly. The pool became a gigantic greentea latte.
We cleaned it, and got the black mesh sunshade thingy but didn't work well. Then found out the sun blanket that the previous owner left for us. So we used the cover but still alge grew slowly.
Turns out we had to set the other chemical balance. I told my wife to scrub the pool at least once in two or three days, set the timer for the pool for 4 hours everyday.
That "regular" routine just started, we check the chemical level with the test strip. We have wanted to get the tftestkits and dolpin robot vacuum, just finance issue this month... But anyway, I checked the pool and I could clearly see that the algae is growing.
I checked the chemical level and it seemed chlorine low, ph low, stabilizer low. So I added more ph raiser. Then realized the strip takes certain amount time to show the result and ph is high.
I got panicked and so I dumped a bag of shock, turns out it also increases ph... My wife and I actually argued because of the Dang pool cleaning and around
Now I'm hopeless and writing this here... Thanks for your time, even though I gotta get up in 4 hours to go to work, I'm desperate, we hope we can use the pool just once before the summer goes....
So we recently purchased our house, happens to have an inground pool. I'm assuming it's 34' x 16' and from 1' deep to 7' deep. I heard it's 13000 gallon pool (from the previous owner)
So, of course we knew nothing when we moved which was in May, and in the end of May, we finally took off the winter cover.. the water seemed very clean but then by the time algae grew - did not pay attention because we didn't know but tried to fix other important things (leaky roof near the chimney, floaded basement because of poorly routed gutter, etc..)
My wife scrubbed and cleaned really hard, she tried to learn, because of the budget issue, never been able to hire anyone. I got a manual vacuum and connected a sump pump - previous owner used it for the water on the winter cover.
We turned on the hayward 0.75 HP filter pump some time to time - didn't know that we had to run it for awhile everyday. And got a chlorine liquid stuff and poured it. Seemed getting better it stopped working then we didn't manage it orooerly. The pool became a gigantic greentea latte.
We cleaned it, and got the black mesh sunshade thingy but didn't work well. Then found out the sun blanket that the previous owner left for us. So we used the cover but still alge grew slowly.
Turns out we had to set the other chemical balance. I told my wife to scrub the pool at least once in two or three days, set the timer for the pool for 4 hours everyday.
That "regular" routine just started, we check the chemical level with the test strip. We have wanted to get the tftestkits and dolpin robot vacuum, just finance issue this month... But anyway, I checked the pool and I could clearly see that the algae is growing.
I checked the chemical level and it seemed chlorine low, ph low, stabilizer low. So I added more ph raiser. Then realized the strip takes certain amount time to show the result and ph is high.
I got panicked and so I dumped a bag of shock, turns out it also increases ph... My wife and I actually argued because of the Dang pool cleaning and around
Now I'm hopeless and writing this here... Thanks for your time, even though I gotta get up in 4 hours to go to work, I'm desperate, we hope we can use the pool just once before the summer goes....
