My wife designed and built a scary enourmous 75k gallon pool in our backyard, we opened it last June and it somehow worked very smoothly. I live in AZ so the biggest problem was dust storms, but the water has always been crystal clear, and SWG has taken care of the chlorine needs, just have to vacuum the dusty bottom and add muriatic acid quite a bit.
About a week ago, the pool water started looking cloudy (my wife calls it “milky”), we can still see the bottom of the deep end, but it’s still hazy in there, and not getting better despite me jacking up the chlorine and running the pump 24x7
My chlorine has never measured below 3ppm, and when this cloudy pool crisis began, the overnight chlorine test showed zero consumption. Since I have CYA 60 I’ve now increased chlorine to over 5 in case algae is involved. Also ordered a FAS-DPD so I’ll be able to get more accurate chlorine tests soon.
HERE IS WHATS DRIVING ME CRAZY, I vacuumed the bottom last night, it had decent amount of dust on it, but when I went to bed the dust was all vacuumed to the filter. Now today. 12 hours later, the dust has somehow spewed back on the bottom of the pool. This makes me think the sand filter has developed channels or something, I mean, I thought the dust was supposed to stay trapped in the filter, but it just seems like the filter isn’t doing it’s job! I am panicking and thinking of calling our Pentair rep since the filter is only one year old. I have never had any kind of algae in this pool, a pool store test from 1 month ago showed about 300 phosphates, but I ignore that because I keep proper FC.
IN SUMMARY, I feel like my filter is NOT doing its job, since the dirt I vacuumed up last night made it back onto the pool floor today... but it’s only one year old and I have no idea if the filter should need a “deep cleaning” by now... honestly I feel like deep cleaning the filter would be best bet, but I have no experience taking one apart, I’m really not good at handyman tasks like that, so majorly stressing out!!
FC 5+ (waiting to get my FAS-DPD test kit)
PH 7.8
Alk 70
Salt 3650
Calcium 300
PHOSPHATES 300
Borates 0
About a week ago, the pool water started looking cloudy (my wife calls it “milky”), we can still see the bottom of the deep end, but it’s still hazy in there, and not getting better despite me jacking up the chlorine and running the pump 24x7
My chlorine has never measured below 3ppm, and when this cloudy pool crisis began, the overnight chlorine test showed zero consumption. Since I have CYA 60 I’ve now increased chlorine to over 5 in case algae is involved. Also ordered a FAS-DPD so I’ll be able to get more accurate chlorine tests soon.
HERE IS WHATS DRIVING ME CRAZY, I vacuumed the bottom last night, it had decent amount of dust on it, but when I went to bed the dust was all vacuumed to the filter. Now today. 12 hours later, the dust has somehow spewed back on the bottom of the pool. This makes me think the sand filter has developed channels or something, I mean, I thought the dust was supposed to stay trapped in the filter, but it just seems like the filter isn’t doing it’s job! I am panicking and thinking of calling our Pentair rep since the filter is only one year old. I have never had any kind of algae in this pool, a pool store test from 1 month ago showed about 300 phosphates, but I ignore that because I keep proper FC.
IN SUMMARY, I feel like my filter is NOT doing its job, since the dirt I vacuumed up last night made it back onto the pool floor today... but it’s only one year old and I have no idea if the filter should need a “deep cleaning” by now... honestly I feel like deep cleaning the filter would be best bet, but I have no experience taking one apart, I’m really not good at handyman tasks like that, so majorly stressing out!!
FC 5+ (waiting to get my FAS-DPD test kit)
PH 7.8
Alk 70
Salt 3650
Calcium 300
PHOSPHATES 300
Borates 0