New Homeowner - CLEAN POOL [back to shocking.]

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Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 2 is on!]

Pool chemicals that came with the house:
several 3" cal hypo pucks
several bags of cal hypo shock
several jugs of pH minus
almost a gallon of muriatic acid
16 oz of some kind of clarifier.
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 2 is on!]

Test 16
fc: 8.5
cc: 1.5

Still working on killin stuff, and the pool is still cloudy. Hopefully tomorrow morning there will be another marked improvement. Switching back to 12.5% bleach now, so 57 oz to get me back up to 11.

It's a good thing I bought a few free cases of POP when I started this process. Otherwise I'm not sure I'd know what to do with myself...
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 2 is on!]

Test 17
fc: 7
cc: 1.5

There is a LOT of foamy/filmy whiteness floating on the top of the pool. This is starting to drive me insane - why am I not seeing to make any headway on this? The last time I added chlorine was last night after sundown and I'm still losing 4fc overnight? I have brushed and brushed, I'm not sure there's any way I can brush more effectively - making sure to hit all walls and seams every time I brush, have scrubbed the skimmer/returns/ladders as well as possible, and I still don't seem to be able to get rid of this Dang bloom.

My POP is wearing thin. I'm going to vacuum again - there's another nice thick line of "dirt" - way too much to just be blowover from the dirt road that we live on - where the sides meet the bottom, and then I'll give it another good brushing, but sheesh, this is really starting to get annoying. At this rate I'm going to have a nice clear pool just in time to close it for the winter. :/

I know that I'm supposed to stay on the shocking process - but is there anything I can do to speed this up? I've been shocking for 5 or 6 days now. Maybe chemically cleaning my filter or replacing the sand would be a good thing? I have no idea how old the sand in this thing is, and if the filter isn't working at peak efficiency??? I don't know. I'm just looking for something that could help this process along, even a little bit.
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 2 is on!]

Test 18
fc: 8.5
cc: 2.5

For the last test I was at 7 fc and added 96oz of 12.5%. I also had to put in about 3/4" of water. I'm beginning to think that I have a leak somewhere, which is a scary concept considering I just bought the house and I can only see about 6 feet of the pool lines - the rest are buried under concrete.

I'm also beginning to wonder if my size estimates are off. I'l come up with a way to figure that out later. For now I just brushed every square inch of the pool, and will add another 64oz of 12.5%.

When I go into town later today I'll see about picking up some skimmer socks. I find it very hard to believe that our friend in the linked thread cleaned a rotting possum out in 3 days and I'm 6 days in and still not making any major progress. How do I know when it's time to change the sand/gravel in the filter, or when it's time to chemically clean it?
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 2 is on!]

The TFP experts generally say it is not normally necessary to change the sand. Cleaning it is usually only needed if it is channelled - the sand clumped up with minerals and not filtering well. If you are seeing a rise in pressure you are probably ok.

While the possum was pretty gross to read about. I'm not sure how hard to oxidize it would be.
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 2 is on!]

Looks like I've only been shocking for what will be 4 days around 5PM this evening. Just feels like longer cause I've had a green pool longer than that. I will keep loading up on that free POP and keep on truckin for now.
 
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RockstarNE said:
Looks like I've only been shocking for what will be 4 days around 5PM this evening. Just feels like longer cause I've had a green pool longer than that. I will keep loading up on that free POP and keep on truckin for now.
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Good attitude and nice POP :cheers: I do think from what I read here that a sand filter can take over a week to clear a cloudy pool - let alone green.
 

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Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 2 is on!]

RockstarNE said:
Yeah I've been adding DE to raise clean pressure by 1psi after every backwash cycle.
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Does the pressure rise rapidly after that? How often are you having to backwash? Is that more frequent than before?
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shocking day 4 is on!]

If I vacuum I have to backwash immediately, I've done that twice so far. Otherwise it's been about once a day give or take. The first day or so I had to backwash two or three times.
 
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Vacuumed the "dirt" out of the bottom and did another brushing, then backwashed, added DE and performed the next test.

Test 19
fc: 11
cc: 1.5
 
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RockstarNE said:
If I vacuum I have to backwash immediately, I've done that twice so far. Otherwise it's been about once a day give or take. The first day or so I had to backwash two or three times.
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If that's true then why not vacuum to waste?
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shock process: day 3.7]

It takes me about 15-20 minutes to vacuum effectively, what with moving slowly to not kick the dirt back up into the water and the unwieldyness of the vacuum. I'm not sure I want to send 15-20 minutes worth of water to the grass once a day...
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shock process: day 3.7]

RockstarNE said:
It takes me about 15-20 minutes to vacuum effectively, what with moving slowly to not kick the dirt back up into the water and the unwieldyness of the vacuum. I'm not sure I want to send 15-20 minutes worth of water to the grass once a day...
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Got it - backwashing is 1/4 or less that much I'm guessing?
 
Re: New Homeowner - Green Pool [shock process: day 3.7]

Refresh my memory please...what is your current cya level?

Since your FC keeps dropping well below your shock level (and since you still have significant CC levels), I would overshoot a little with the hope to maintain it at/slightly above your FC shock level.

I asked before how the owner sanitized just because your process has gone a little like a baqua conversion.
 

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