New pool owner, need help!

yazbakri

New member
Jun 3, 2024
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Michigan
Hello everyone,

Im a new pool owner. It’s a fiberglass pool 30K-35K gallons. The pool was covered when we bought the house this year in the winter. When we started the opening the pool it was pretty bad green. We shocked the pool with a lot of shock and liquid chlorine along with algaecide recommended by our local pool store when we got them a sample of the water.

Tried filtration for a few days and the cloudiness of the pool won’t go away. You couldn’t see 1” deep in the water.

We finally used floc (Now I know that this forum dislikes it heavily) but the floc worked and everything went to the bottom.

I have been vacuuming for 3 days now because I keep losing a lot of water and the suction is pretty slow.

I have attached some pictures to see what you guys think and see if there’s any advise you can give me.

Some how dark leafs made it in at some point in this pool. I’ve been taking them out when I see them. I’m thinking the homeowners didn’t close the pool for a full year before they decided to sell the house they just covered it.

I also changed my 300lbs pound sand filter with new fresh sand.

Any help would be appreciated.
 

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Welcome to the forum!
Can you post a full set of water chemistry test results from your own test kit?
I suggest you read through Pool Care Basics - Trouble Free Pool and even look at a few of our videos TFP-TV - Trouble Free Pool
I don’t have a sheet of paper or anything with the results. I use the kit I Purchased from the pool store. I’m looking into the TF-100 but even with that I don’t understand how people post all their results online.
 
Most of us use PoolMath to record and manage our pool water chemistry. Your results can be shared on the forum.
Without pool water chemistry results not much guidance can be given.
Add 5 ppm FC worth of liquid chlorine each day until you get a proper test kit.
 
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