First they had to acid wash my pool after 8 months to get the topcoat off and while it was drained we have a few days of heavy rain.I believe the Iron came form the new stone coping and stained the sides and bottom. It looked horrible.
I have don't a few Vit C treatments and every time it seemed to help but never really looked the way it should so this time I got serious and followed the method on TFP
I bought 10 pds Ascorbic Acid, 2 bottles of metal out, 2 boxes of washing soda to raise PH back and Calpo shock ( couldn't find any liquid )
First I removed my cartridge filters.
Then I let my FC drop to around 2 and my PH to 7.2 and added 2.5 pds..Helped some but after 45 minutes added the rest of the 5pd bag and waited an hour..Maybe 1/2 was gone but still looked bad so decided I was adding the hole 10 pds and if I had to buy 20 gallons of bleach I would
After 45 minutes it was starting to look a lot better..I left it that way and ran the pump overnight.
The next day I put filters back in and a full bag of jacks filter fiber and 2 bottles of metal out. The brought PH up to 7.2..
He mentioned in the post to bring Chlorine up slow so I added a bag of shocked and was surprised to see it didn't eat up my FC like before.
Still don't understand that part!
2 days later the water is back in balance and the pool is looking better every day!!
Meant to add the thread
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I have don't a few Vit C treatments and every time it seemed to help but never really looked the way it should so this time I got serious and followed the method on TFP
I bought 10 pds Ascorbic Acid, 2 bottles of metal out, 2 boxes of washing soda to raise PH back and Calpo shock ( couldn't find any liquid )
First I removed my cartridge filters.
Then I let my FC drop to around 2 and my PH to 7.2 and added 2.5 pds..Helped some but after 45 minutes added the rest of the 5pd bag and waited an hour..Maybe 1/2 was gone but still looked bad so decided I was adding the hole 10 pds and if I had to buy 20 gallons of bleach I would
After 45 minutes it was starting to look a lot better..I left it that way and ran the pump overnight.
The next day I put filters back in and a full bag of jacks filter fiber and 2 bottles of metal out. The brought PH up to 7.2..
He mentioned in the post to bring Chlorine up slow so I added a bag of shocked and was surprised to see it didn't eat up my FC like before.
Still don't understand that part!
2 days later the water is back in balance and the pool is looking better every day!!
Meant to add the thread
Ascorbic Treatment to rid Pool of metal stains
Here are the directions to use Ascorbic acid to rid your pool of metal stains: Here is the ascorbic treatment: Take your chlorine down to 0 and PH down to 7.2, if there is chlorine in the water it won't hurt, it will just eat up the ascorbic acid, so you will need more to get rid of the...
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