Last question of the season

[Lemonhead]

I’ve closed and covered my pool today . It was very sad lol. I was plagued with brown looking algea dead or alive coming out of my sand filter . After I disconnected everything and covered the pool I looked inside the filter . I forgot to take a pic but it looked like chunks of chewed and stepped on bubble gum. Their was a descent amount on top and about halfway down. I’m sure this was the stuff spreading into my pool . Any idea what it was ? Anyways I emptied all the sand. Rinsed out the container . At this point should I just leave it inside for the winter ? I do have the bags of sand. I dont want to hook the hoses back up until next spring . Would you do the sand now or leave it till opening ? And what was the gummy looking stuff ? I assume dead algea

 

[Texas Splash]

Not sure if you still have algae in the water, but I don't think the gummy stuff in the sand was algae. Have any pool store products been added to the water like clarifiers, floc, etc? If the sand was not deep cleaned in a long time, perhaps seasonal body oils? But since you are closed, it doesn't make sense to reconnect everything and add sand. I would just wait. Hopefully your water temps are consistently cold enough (i.e. below 60) to reduce the likelihood of algae in the spring. Good luck.

 

[Lemonhead]

I closed a bit early as far as water temps go . What i will do in a few weeks is open the cover and check the chlorine level. I’ll dump some in and move around with a pool brush. Hopefully that will keep algea bloom at bay. I’ve never added clarifier or anything of that sort. Just chlorine , ph up
And down and cya. Whatever was in their kept showing up on my
Pool door . It was very frustrating. On a side note I read about your bio.
You’ve lived an interesting life .
It was a good read

 

[VinnyinNJ]

I closed a bit early as far as water temps go . What i will do in a few weeks is open the cover and check the chlorine level. I’ll dump some in and move around with a pool brush. Hopefully that will keep algea bloom at bay. I’ve never added clarifier or anything of that sort. Just chlorine , ph up
And down and cya. Whatever was in their kept showing up on my
Pool door . It was very frustrating. On a side note I read about your bio.
You’ve lived an interesting life .
It was a good read

I can't speak of your filter stuff although I will agree to wait until spring and since you have the sand replace it after cleaning inside the filter. But I can speak of closing the pool in about your area as I live in NJ and have closed my pool around this time for all the years I had my old pool. The timing is off by 1 or 2 weeks early (usually close the week after Labor Day) but temps are not that different in those weeks; I close because of the trees start dropping their leaves and it becomes a mess.

Anyway, I tend to hit the pool with high levels of chlorine (1 to 2 gallons of bleach) with everything out of the pool, filter for 24/48 hours and then cover and I have not had any issues with opening up to a clean pool except twice and one was a winter cover giving out before the spring. The other was a mystery of no CYA, it was still clean but sucking up chlorine until whatever was gone. I know the preferred thing here is to wait until the water is below 60 but my trees say differently!

 

[Lemonhead]

That’s good to know . Takes a little
Less stress off me. I want the pool to be clear when I open it