Hey everyone,
So I left our pool uncovered over the winter because we don’t have any trees nearby, so leaves aren’t an issue. However, I did disconnect (literally had to cut the pipes, yes, it was HARD plumbed) the pump/filter as they were hard plumbed, and I wanted the pool to not overflow.
Unfortunately, while I was waiting for the concrete guy to pour a small slab to put the filter on, it warmed up just enough to encourage algae to grow. We watched, from our new deck, our pool go from crystal clear to green, can’t see the bottom, swamp in 3 days.
After a week or so of algae growth, I was able to get the pump and filter up on the new slab and replumbed, with a drain for the winter. No more disconnecting, yay.
So I brought up the CYA to 40 and SLAMed, not even bothering to run the other tests as we wanted to get rid of the algae, fast. Passed an OCLT after 3 days of SLAM and have been brushing and vacuuming daily, backwashing as needed, waiting for the FC to drop below 10 to get a good set of numbers. The water was extremely cloudy at first, but has since gotten much better, which leads me to my current numbers.....
FC 7.5
CC 0
CYA 40 (let the water warm inside to get a good reading)
Ph 7.5
CH 75
TA 60
I’ve seen elsewhere that I shouldn’t worry about CH unless we get foaming as it’s an AG Vinyl. Should I bother bringing the TA up? It will be another month before the water gets warm enough (for us) to swim, so should I just monitor it and see what happens?
Thanks for any advice!
So I left our pool uncovered over the winter because we don’t have any trees nearby, so leaves aren’t an issue. However, I did disconnect (literally had to cut the pipes, yes, it was HARD plumbed) the pump/filter as they were hard plumbed, and I wanted the pool to not overflow.
Unfortunately, while I was waiting for the concrete guy to pour a small slab to put the filter on, it warmed up just enough to encourage algae to grow. We watched, from our new deck, our pool go from crystal clear to green, can’t see the bottom, swamp in 3 days.
After a week or so of algae growth, I was able to get the pump and filter up on the new slab and replumbed, with a drain for the winter. No more disconnecting, yay.
So I brought up the CYA to 40 and SLAMed, not even bothering to run the other tests as we wanted to get rid of the algae, fast. Passed an OCLT after 3 days of SLAM and have been brushing and vacuuming daily, backwashing as needed, waiting for the FC to drop below 10 to get a good set of numbers. The water was extremely cloudy at first, but has since gotten much better, which leads me to my current numbers.....
FC 7.5
CC 0
CYA 40 (let the water warm inside to get a good reading)
Ph 7.5
CH 75
TA 60
I’ve seen elsewhere that I shouldn’t worry about CH unless we get foaming as it’s an AG Vinyl. Should I bother bringing the TA up? It will be another month before the water gets warm enough (for us) to swim, so should I just monitor it and see what happens?
Thanks for any advice!