New to this site and look forward to finding information and getting advice about how to take care of your pool. Just started taking over myself as it's time to do this on my own versus paying someone else to do it.
Upon closing our service we noticed some algae still on the walls and it's progressively gotten worse. To the point where we it's been recommended we drain the pool. Reason one being to do the SLAM process but more importantly we are going to switch to a Salt Water Chlorine system. Have a DE filter so grids and everything will be cleaned out as well.
On pool draining, plan is to do that completely and to fix one problem area that needs a quick re-patch. That should be reality quick and then can proceed with the next steps. This is where I have a few questions.
1) Once water is drained, is there anything recommended on how I should treat the walls of the plaster before re-filling?
2) How long can I leave the pool undrained? Note, have not done it yet but getting ready to do so.
3) Is there anything that should be done in preparation before the Salt Water Chlorine system is installed?
Upon closing our service we noticed some algae still on the walls and it's progressively gotten worse. To the point where we it's been recommended we drain the pool. Reason one being to do the SLAM process but more importantly we are going to switch to a Salt Water Chlorine system. Have a DE filter so grids and everything will be cleaned out as well.
On pool draining, plan is to do that completely and to fix one problem area that needs a quick re-patch. That should be reality quick and then can proceed with the next steps. This is where I have a few questions.
1) Once water is drained, is there anything recommended on how I should treat the walls of the plaster before re-filling?
2) How long can I leave the pool undrained? Note, have not done it yet but getting ready to do so.
3) Is there anything that should be done in preparation before the Salt Water Chlorine system is installed?
Just to clarify, there is no need to drain the pool for algae, to perform a 
