Hi All,
I've recently had to change the method of waste water disposal when backwashing and am wondering if it is necessary to run my variable speed pump at full power when backwashing? or will a low speed achieve the same result, even if run for longer?. At full power the volume of water coming out is huge and at a very high speed which with my new way I have to get rid of the water puts a lot of pressure on the pipe work away from the pool.
Secondly I have been away for 2 weeks and when I came home I'm not sure what the people who were looking after my pool did but I returned to a cloudy 'milky' looking pool. I live in a semi-rural area with trees all around my property so keeping the pool clean is always a challenge and recovering from green pool's has been something I've got very familiar with but on this occasion the pool was in a state I had not seen before, the water was a 'milky' white color and i could not see the bottom.
So I thought I would SLAM it and see if that helped, it has taken 6 days and 50 litres of liquid chlorine (unusually longer than normal) to get the pool back to a semi-clear state. However now what I am left with is this very fine dust coating the bottom of the pool, it is not grainy and when I try to pinch it it seemingly dissipates so I cant get a good look at what it is.
My robotic vaccuum is having trouble collecting it and strangely when I try to manually vacuum the pool it appears its going right through the filter and back into the pool again. I last back washed the filter yesterday, is it possible the filter is full again? I'm not sure how to get rid of this fine dust like stuff, would the glass media collect even this?
Any help appreciated,
Thanks
I've recently had to change the method of waste water disposal when backwashing and am wondering if it is necessary to run my variable speed pump at full power when backwashing? or will a low speed achieve the same result, even if run for longer?. At full power the volume of water coming out is huge and at a very high speed which with my new way I have to get rid of the water puts a lot of pressure on the pipe work away from the pool.
Secondly I have been away for 2 weeks and when I came home I'm not sure what the people who were looking after my pool did but I returned to a cloudy 'milky' looking pool. I live in a semi-rural area with trees all around my property so keeping the pool clean is always a challenge and recovering from green pool's has been something I've got very familiar with but on this occasion the pool was in a state I had not seen before, the water was a 'milky' white color and i could not see the bottom.
So I thought I would SLAM it and see if that helped, it has taken 6 days and 50 litres of liquid chlorine (unusually longer than normal) to get the pool back to a semi-clear state. However now what I am left with is this very fine dust coating the bottom of the pool, it is not grainy and when I try to pinch it it seemingly dissipates so I cant get a good look at what it is.
My robotic vaccuum is having trouble collecting it and strangely when I try to manually vacuum the pool it appears its going right through the filter and back into the pool again. I last back washed the filter yesterday, is it possible the filter is full again? I'm not sure how to get rid of this fine dust like stuff, would the glass media collect even this?
Any help appreciated,
Thanks