This "morning" we're at 8 FC, and 0 CC, CYA is at 25, and I also checked the PH because I've had problems with it in the past and... it's over 500. So that's probably where the lack of clarity is coming from, but how do I fix that?!
the clarity still took me weeks (& I mean weeks!)
Yea, I had this issue last year as well, but I think a lot of last year was that my pump was apparently going out and was old, as well as probably too small for the pool ideally. It was the original pump that came with the pool over 20 years ago when my grandparents first bought it!
We've been swimming the last couple days. In Nebraska we don't have any chance of even close to 6 months of swimming, our ideal swim range is maybe 3 months, and when I'm spending a month of that each year just trying to get the pool clean it really makes me think that pumping it out and starting from scratch is easier. Our winter cover was compromised this last winter and we just pumped it out, so when we hooked everything up we were perfectly clear, but with the pump going out I lost that battle.
I've been vacuuming, but I don't really seem to be picking much up, and of course I can't see the bottom so I'm at a major disadvantage there. I have gotten some big flakes off the bottom in the basket when I vacuum... but not a lot of them either.
I'm thinking at this point we need to address the high pH?