One Day of My First Pollen Season with New Pool

[KevMo]

Our high temperature here in the Houston area will be 84F today. Pollen season seems to have kicked off yesterday. Below is a picture of one of the skimmer baskets and the yellow water in my skimmer after 1 day. Maybe the hair nets in the skimmers and my large 520 filter will reduce the number of times I need to clean the filter.

I skimmed off the pollen floating on the top with my ProTuff fine mesh net and the water in the pool is thankfully still crystal clear. I threw away the net my PB gave me last year. It would not have done a very good job on the pollen.

 

[pjt]

Hairnets are a godsend during March here. How often are you cleaning your filter?

 

[Newdude]

If spring crud is falling, be on the lookout for the daily FC loss to spike too. Pollen/Crud does little to a properly sanitized pool. #teamrunhot.

 

[KevMo]

Hairnets are a godsend during March here. How often are you cleaning your filter?

I have not cleaned my filter since the beginning of Fall. I am going to clean it later this week and use how much pollen is in it, along with the pressure change, as a guage to determine when I might need to clean it again.

 

[KevMo]

If spring crud is falling, be on the lookout for the daily FC loss to spike too. Pollen/Crud does little to a properly sanitized pool. #teamrunhot.

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I am definitely a member of #teamrunhot. I think it will help a lot with the rapid increase in temperature combined with a lack of clouds that come with a Texas Spring.

 

[pjt]

I have not cleaned my filter since the beginning of Fall. I am going to clean it later this week and use how much pollen is in it, along with the pressure change, as a guage to determine when I might need to clean it again.

Do you get a lot of debris? We have the same filter, and I clean once a year. I could go 18 months if I pushed it.

 

[KevMo]

Do you get a lot of debris? We have the same filter, and I clean once a year. I could go 18 months if I pushed it.

I get a fair amount of debris in my pool. My yard has a lot of trees on all 3 sides of my backyard. We intentionally keep it raw with thick brush to act as a privacy shield. There are quite a number of pine and other trees that are 50'+. I live less than 10 miles from a 163K acre national forest that is dominated by towering pine trees.

My pool has been filled for about a year. I cleaned the filter a couple months after I thought the construction and plaster dust had settled and been filtered. I cleaned it again in August when the pressure rose.