Hey All,
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Been lurking on the site since last year ( I bought a house with a 24' AG pool). When I opened the pool there was a lot of dirt on the bottom, I vacuumed it all out twice, through the sand filter, then backwashed the filter. Great, no big deal.
Well as off recently, I've been getting what I thought was algea in the middle of the pool. One store even promised me it was mustard algea and to use two bags of this chemical. Well, it came back. So I found a kids pool toy (It's like a 3 foot long syringe) and I used that to take a sample of the bottom of the pool. It's some kind of dirt. I've already baskwashed and rinsed the filter multiple times. This weekend, I even changed out the filter sand ( I cleaned and bleached everything because I still thought it was algea). When I vacuum it out, I vacuum to waste.
The photo shows what is accumulating in the bottom of the pool. It only happens if the pump/filter run. If I run the pump for an hour, I'll get a little of it. I did not run the filter for the past 24 hours and it has not come back.
Where in the world could this dirt be coming from? Anyone have a clue what it could be? I was going to seperate the pump from the motor (Hayward SP1592 and S180T92S ). The pump/filter do not leak. And I've vacuumed to waste probably 5 times, so whatever it is, is coming back. It's sandy, and doesn't feel like plastic, but I was hoping I might find something in the pump..
If I change the eyeball outlet, the foreign dirt does disperse differently through the pool. It it's all new sand.
Please help. I'm at wits end.
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Been lurking on the site since last year ( I bought a house with a 24' AG pool). When I opened the pool there was a lot of dirt on the bottom, I vacuumed it all out twice, through the sand filter, then backwashed the filter. Great, no big deal.
Well as off recently, I've been getting what I thought was algea in the middle of the pool. One store even promised me it was mustard algea and to use two bags of this chemical. Well, it came back. So I found a kids pool toy (It's like a 3 foot long syringe) and I used that to take a sample of the bottom of the pool. It's some kind of dirt. I've already baskwashed and rinsed the filter multiple times. This weekend, I even changed out the filter sand ( I cleaned and bleached everything because I still thought it was algea). When I vacuum it out, I vacuum to waste.
The photo shows what is accumulating in the bottom of the pool. It only happens if the pump/filter run. If I run the pump for an hour, I'll get a little of it. I did not run the filter for the past 24 hours and it has not come back.
Where in the world could this dirt be coming from? Anyone have a clue what it could be? I was going to seperate the pump from the motor (Hayward SP1592 and S180T92S ). The pump/filter do not leak. And I've vacuumed to waste probably 5 times, so whatever it is, is coming back. It's sandy, and doesn't feel like plastic, but I was hoping I might find something in the pump..
If I change the eyeball outlet, the foreign dirt does disperse differently through the pool. It it's all new sand.
Please help. I'm at wits end.
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