Thankfully our insane neighbor didn't actually damage any of our equipment or the pool itself but while we were on a weekend trip last month, my outdoor camera caught our **insane** neighbor trespassing and dumping three bags of their yard waste in our pool. Leaves, sticks, grass clippings... sigh.
We didn't even realize it until we got back and several days had passed because it rained and where our pool is we don't usually go to unless there's a reason, and if it's raining, there's no reason lol. When we got home from our trip it was dark and I thought there were a lot of leaves for a few days in the basket, but it had stormed so I didn't think too much of it.
We weren't ready to use the pool until this weekend when I started to think something was amiss. There was just tons of leaves, WAY more than would collect it the pool over an entire season, let alone a week.
ANYWAY... Our regular pool vacuum isn't cutting it and now most of the leaves are breaking up and are little flecks of black and green mush. In the video they are clearly dead decomposed leaves he dumped in the pool. It's like soup. I've run the filter for a week straight, backwashing every few hours, cleaned the sand once, running a vacuum on the bottom, but not much gets sucked up, just kicked around. It's getting worse.
What can I do? Are there "commercial" pool filters I can rent to move the water faster and filter it better? I'm afraid we're going to lose this whole season entirely and worse have to empty the pool, scrub it and refill, which we can't afford right now.
We didn't even realize it until we got back and several days had passed because it rained and where our pool is we don't usually go to unless there's a reason, and if it's raining, there's no reason lol. When we got home from our trip it was dark and I thought there were a lot of leaves for a few days in the basket, but it had stormed so I didn't think too much of it.
We weren't ready to use the pool until this weekend when I started to think something was amiss. There was just tons of leaves, WAY more than would collect it the pool over an entire season, let alone a week.
ANYWAY... Our regular pool vacuum isn't cutting it and now most of the leaves are breaking up and are little flecks of black and green mush. In the video they are clearly dead decomposed leaves he dumped in the pool. It's like soup. I've run the filter for a week straight, backwashing every few hours, cleaned the sand once, running a vacuum on the bottom, but not much gets sucked up, just kicked around. It's getting worse.
What can I do? Are there "commercial" pool filters I can rent to move the water faster and filter it better? I'm afraid we're going to lose this whole season entirely and worse have to empty the pool, scrub it and refill, which we can't afford right now.
