Rain/Heat "causing algae"

[JimMarshall]

Once again, I never learn, and I find myself banging my head against the wall trying to help people located on some of the various pool care facebook groups.

Why, oh why, are they all so adamant that more pools are going green this year because its so much hotter and so much more rain? These people will fight you tooth and nail to convince you that rain and heat cause algae, not their lack of proper water chemistry

 

[PoolStored]

Why do you go to the pool store?
Why do you join FB pool groups?

 

[JimMarshall]

Why do you go to the pool store?
Why do you join FB pool groups?

Other than to buy pool related accessories (think plumbing parts, leaf nets, etc) , I don't go to the pool store. I have never had my water tested by a pool store, I had found TFP prior to buying my house and installing my pool.

IDK to try and make other peoples lives easier and pools more enjoyable (often at the expense of my own sanity though)

 

[hexabc]

Once again, I never learn, and I find myself banging my head against the wall trying to help people located on some of the various pool care facebook groups.

Why, oh why, are they all so adamant that more pools are going green this year because its so much hotter and so much more rain? These people will fight you tooth and nail to convince you that rain and heat cause algae, not their lack of proper water chemistry

This is hardly a unique field where it’s hard to change preconceived notions. Take any hi-fi audio forum - it’s full of discussions about “musicality” of amplifiers, “breaking in” speakers, cables costing $1k per foot and bringing “clarity” and “tight” bass to music, etc etc. So called audiofiles do not accept the fact that any competently designed audio amplifier is basically transparent to the recorded music, no matter how much it costs (assuming it provides the same power). The winner is, as always, the industry selling to that market.

 

[dfwnoob]

This is hardly a unique field where it’s hard to change preconceived notions. Take any hi-fi audio forum - it’s full of discussions about “musicality” of amplifiers, “breaking in” speakers, cables costing $1k per foot and bringing “clarity” and “tight” bass to music, etc etc. So called audiofiles do not accept the fact that any competently designed audio amplifier is basically transparent to the recorded music, no matter how much it costs (assuming it provides the same power). The winner is, as always, the industry selling to that market.

Yeah well, I can tell you my records never sounded so alive until I bought $500-a-piece cable elevators to keep my speaker wire off the floor. I also bought audiophile grade circuit breakers and all of my interconnects are a minimum of 4ga wire. It's overkill, but the music that was recorded by an alcoholic in a low budget music studio on a $40 microphone back in the 1970s never sounded so good!

I have never seen so many idiots willing to part with lots of their money like I have in hi-fi. I really like Paul McGowan over at PS Audio for his opinions on speaker design and he was also close friends with the late Arnie Nudell (who I also respect immensely). But man in his videos when they show their lab with THOUSANDS of dollars worth of speaker wire, cable elevators, etc. I have to just shake my head. Stunning how someone in the industry - who doesn't even sell that snake oil - can fall for it.

 

[Katodude]

I have a friend 2 doors down from me thats headed for impending disaster. He relies on a pool service company that comes in once a week, cleans up the pool dumps about a 1.5 gallons of LC, throws two pucks in a floater and thats it. I keep telling him that his pool guy is going to destroy his pool, and his answer is I will talk to the guy.

He had a leak before that managed his CYA but that has been repaired. Now his TA is 40, pH is 7.2, have not checked his CH in a while but it was fairly low, and his CYA is 50 and climbing.

I need to go just dump a bag of baking soda in the pool.

I am so close to getting him to buy a SWG. Then at least what he has will be maintainable.

 

[V___25]

Facebook keeps suggesting this Above Ground swimming pool group for me to join and even though I don't have an above ground pool and don't join the group, I do enjoy reading the stupidity. I especially love the people who are swimming with their kids in these awful green pools because they are frustrated of it and swim anyway. NOPE.

 

[JessBlount617]

Facebook keeps suggesting this Above Ground swimming pool group for me to join and even though I don't have an above ground pool and don't join the group, I do enjoy reading the stupidity. I especially love the people who are swimming with their kids in these awful green pools because they are frustrated of it and swim anyway. NOPE.

SAME... it's like a trap for me to want to raise awareness to the idiots.

I constantly find myself muttering under my breath at Menards "you don't need that... you really shouldn't buy that, buy this..."

I singled out a guy with an army of product in his cart - you name it, he had a least two or three containers... I stopped him dead in his tracks and asked "you have an algae issue, dont you? and if you live near me you probably have a rust issue while trying to open your pool, huh?"

Then we traded info, I sent him off to buy a bucket and poly fil, and 3 cases of liquid chlorine... he showed me how to get custom-fitted caps for my ladder. Win, win, really...

 

[Newdude]

I can't go to home depot without seeing somebody with a flatbed cart of chlorox salt and several tab buckets on top. I gave up being 'that weirdo' a long time ago. I mean. I'm still a weirdo, but not for that.

 

[sande005]

My last trip to the pool store to buy a part, basically saw the same sort of thing - guy getting ready to buy a huge pile of chems for his algae problem. Even the pool store guy was trying to talk him into abandoning most of it, and just get a few cases of liquid Cl......but he insisted he had to get the "real stuff" from a industry brand name.

 

[cledee]

I tried to help people on forums my second year of using TFP, but I stopped and don't even try to help friends anymore. I tried to tell them that you could raise ph, alkalinity with non-pool store brand items like Borax or Baking Soda or Washing Soda. They thought I was into witch craft when I told them certain bleach are liquid chlorine. I even showed them the label that shows sodium hypochlorite and how many ppm of FC it provides but people just want to trust the pool store experts and want to be upsold for comfort.

 

[Pv2]

I tried to help people on forums my second year of using TFP, but I stopped and don't even try to help friends anymore. I tried to tell them that you could raise ph, alkalinity with non-pool store brand items like Borax or Baking Soda or Washing Soda. They thought I was into witch craft when I told them certain bleach are liquid chlorine. I even showed them the label that shows sodium hypochlorite and how many ppm of FC it provides but people just want to trust the pool store experts and want to be upsold for comfort.

I got sucked into buying 3 different people test kits. sigh. "I can get it tested at the pool store for free"

I keep telling my sister walmart pool chlorine is less expensive ppm than anything (we are a bleach family) but I always see those cheap dollar store bottles in her house for laundry and cleaning. might as well fill them back with water.