New pool and water cloudy

[Jd21476]

We just got our inground pool up and running about 2 months ago. The contractor did the start up and we have a pool guy who comes out weekly. We have a Poolvernugen cleaner but the water always seems cloudy. I keep the equipment on for at least 8 hours per day and our pool guy says the chemicals are good. The pool is salt.

It was chlorine for the first month and then converted to salt and Id say this is aroud the time I started to notice that it was constabtly cloudy. We have parties on the weekend and usually have between 15-20 people in the pool and it is 36k gallons.
What do you think is wrong?

 

[Mike1162]

It's usually not enough chlorine for the amount of CYA in the water. Do you have a test kit?

 

[drsipe]

It sounds like an algae problem. For us to give you any real advice, we need to know a little more. We need to know your chlorine level and your stabilizer levels. For this you will need a proper test kit. Personally I use the Taylor K2006, you may ask yourself, why should I buy an test kit when the pool store will test my water for free. Remember, they test for "free" so they can sell you expensive potions, and most of the time, their testing is very inaccurate.

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What pool test kit should I buy? Why not use test strips? Our recommended test kits will pay for themselves in no time!

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Once you have a good test kit, you can post all your readings, and we can begin to help you.

Until you can get a good test kit, it's usually recommended that you add 5ppm of chlorine daily. This should stop or slow down any algae bloom that might be starting. for your pool, that should be about 2 gallons of 10% sodium hypo (liquid pool shock). This can be purchased at your local Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart.

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[Jd21476]

My pool is salt, not chlorine

 

[Mike1162]

The salt is used by the chlorine generator to produce chlorine.

 

[mknauss]

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[Mike1162]

I should have said salt water generator instead of chlorine generator. Although, it produces chlorine not salt water. Maybe I said it correctly & the rest of world is wrong! Kind of like George Carlin & near miss.