We've had our pool for approx 20 years and never had this problem before. Our pool man said the heat has caused this for many of his customers who haven't drained their pools in years. Our water was pretty normal 12 days ago. Then he added water to the pool (trickle-dripped) over two days which brought the water level up a couple of inches higher than usual and we had adult guests in the pool so it had 5 adults instead of 1 for 4 days. We had a bad heat wave about a month ago, then it cooled down, then went up to high 90s.
Our pool turned a light green. He told me that several of his customers are having this problem now with the heat. He mentioned that he did a testing six weeks ago and brought it into Leslie's and they said the only thing to do is to drain the pool. Our water has not been drained since we've owned the house.
He said he did try shocking the pool but the solids are such that it must be drained. We have chunks of plaster coming off but this isn't the time for us to be redoing the plaster now. He said it would be
It's a heat wave here now, 100 degree today, supposed to be 91 tomorrow. He says he's been draining the other pools without a problem. He'll come tomorrow, start to pump out the water, return the next morning and clean the filter, wash out the pool (not acid-wash because of the weak plaster), start adding the water. He said he'll stabilize the water.
I know most of you are maintaining your pools yourself, I read the other pages, but this isn't practical in our case for personal reasons. I wanted to run this by you all in case anyone had any advice or comments. Our pool man says he blames himself because he didn't insist that many of his clients drain their pools earlier. He's very upset over this. He's charging $250 to drain, $100 to do the filter and doing the stabilizing for free. I mentioned how people say not to do this in the heat of summer, but he said it has worked for his other clients that he's been doing it for during the last couple of weeks, without a problem. I've attached a photo to show. He estimates it's 17.000 gallons.
Our pool turned a light green. He told me that several of his customers are having this problem now with the heat. He mentioned that he did a testing six weeks ago and brought it into Leslie's and they said the only thing to do is to drain the pool. Our water has not been drained since we've owned the house.
He said he did try shocking the pool but the solids are such that it must be drained. We have chunks of plaster coming off but this isn't the time for us to be redoing the plaster now. He said it would be
It's a heat wave here now, 100 degree today, supposed to be 91 tomorrow. He says he's been draining the other pools without a problem. He'll come tomorrow, start to pump out the water, return the next morning and clean the filter, wash out the pool (not acid-wash because of the weak plaster), start adding the water. He said he'll stabilize the water.
I know most of you are maintaining your pools yourself, I read the other pages, but this isn't practical in our case for personal reasons. I wanted to run this by you all in case anyone had any advice or comments. Our pool man says he blames himself because he didn't insist that many of his clients drain their pools earlier. He's very upset over this. He's charging $250 to drain, $100 to do the filter and doing the stabilizing for free. I mentioned how people say not to do this in the heat of summer, but he said it has worked for his other clients that he's been doing it for during the last couple of weeks, without a problem. I've attached a photo to show. He estimates it's 17.000 gallons.