Good evening,
I know there's a lot of good resources here, but honestly, I'm overwhelmed and frustrated and would like someone to walk me through what to do. We've been doing the pool store money dump for about two months and the pool is still cloudy and won't hold chlorine.
We have a 5500 gallon above ground vinyl pool. We didn't know what we were doing and it was left uncovered all winter. At this point it's free of as much debris as we can (maybe a few leaves, not perfect). We have a sandpro pump that runs 24/7. Right now the floater has 5 chlorine tabs in it. I put those in last night. I shocked with a packet of powdered shock two days ago after it rained.
Right now it is cloudy and slightly greenish. Yesterday afternoon there was a tannish colored slime floating on top of the water. Honestly, it looks like diarrhea.We haven't used the pool in over a week because the water won't clear up and the chlorine won't hold. We probably shouldn't have used it at all this summer, but it was ok in May, just a little cloudy. I think my son got an ear infection from the water.
I am prepared to SLAM the pool if needed, but like I said, I'm kind of overwhelmed and not really processing all the articles on the site.
Thanks for any help! If this doesn't work we'll have to hire someone to balance it and I really don't want to do that.
Here are the numbers from the pool store test today.
Free chlorine- .25
Total Chlorine- 1.32
pH- 7.3
Total Alkalinity- 70 (they say that's low)
CYA- 73
Phosphates 140
Calcium Hardness 213
Iron- 0
Copper- 0.2
TDS- 800
I know there's a lot of good resources here, but honestly, I'm overwhelmed and frustrated and would like someone to walk me through what to do. We've been doing the pool store money dump for about two months and the pool is still cloudy and won't hold chlorine.
We have a 5500 gallon above ground vinyl pool. We didn't know what we were doing and it was left uncovered all winter. At this point it's free of as much debris as we can (maybe a few leaves, not perfect). We have a sandpro pump that runs 24/7. Right now the floater has 5 chlorine tabs in it. I put those in last night. I shocked with a packet of powdered shock two days ago after it rained.
Right now it is cloudy and slightly greenish. Yesterday afternoon there was a tannish colored slime floating on top of the water. Honestly, it looks like diarrhea.We haven't used the pool in over a week because the water won't clear up and the chlorine won't hold. We probably shouldn't have used it at all this summer, but it was ok in May, just a little cloudy. I think my son got an ear infection from the water.
I am prepared to SLAM the pool if needed, but like I said, I'm kind of overwhelmed and not really processing all the articles on the site.
Thanks for any help! If this doesn't work we'll have to hire someone to balance it and I really don't want to do that.
Here are the numbers from the pool store test today.
Free chlorine- .25
Total Chlorine- 1.32
pH- 7.3
Total Alkalinity- 70 (they say that's low)
CYA- 73
Phosphates 140
Calcium Hardness 213
Iron- 0
Copper- 0.2
TDS- 800