Hi All,
I've been reading through the forum for several days and decided to join. So far the advice here makes a lot more sense to me than the over priced products I've see at pool stores.
We bought our house last August with a beautiful pool. That all changed after 2 hurricanes and the pump failing. We live in a heavily wooded area and the pool quickly filled with leaves and basically turned into a pond. I was feeling a little overwhelmed so I covered it up and that leads us to were we are today.
This is on May 11th the day we got our new pump.
I'll spare you the picture with the dead squirrel!
I've order my test kit and it should be here tomorrow. I also started adding liquid chlorine, I'm going to add 1 gallon of 10% per day. I'll be able to be more accurate once my test kit arrives and I'll do a proper SLAM.
The previous owner was a BaQuacil fan, so I am going to do the conversion.
So far I'm back flushing about twice a day and scooping more leaves than I care to mention. The pool no longer smells like death. I assume a mess like this is going to take a few weeks to clear.
Will back flushing/vacuuming to waste into the woods kill my trees? My hose is about 100ft short of making it the the road. (private road with no sewer) We are on a ridge so the water drains off fairly quickly.
Thank you for all that I have learned so far. I hope to have a clean pool soon!
I've been reading through the forum for several days and decided to join. So far the advice here makes a lot more sense to me than the over priced products I've see at pool stores.
We bought our house last August with a beautiful pool. That all changed after 2 hurricanes and the pump failing. We live in a heavily wooded area and the pool quickly filled with leaves and basically turned into a pond. I was feeling a little overwhelmed so I covered it up and that leads us to were we are today.
This is on May 11th the day we got our new pump.
I'll spare you the picture with the dead squirrel!
I've order my test kit and it should be here tomorrow. I also started adding liquid chlorine, I'm going to add 1 gallon of 10% per day. I'll be able to be more accurate once my test kit arrives and I'll do a proper SLAM.
The previous owner was a BaQuacil fan, so I am going to do the conversion.
So far I'm back flushing about twice a day and scooping more leaves than I care to mention. The pool no longer smells like death. I assume a mess like this is going to take a few weeks to clear.
Will back flushing/vacuuming to waste into the woods kill my trees? My hose is about 100ft short of making it the the road. (private road with no sewer) We are on a ridge so the water drains off fairly quickly.
Thank you for all that I have learned so far. I hope to have a clean pool soon!