Hoping to get some help on identifying and removing these stains in my plaster. Nothing comes off when I brush them, and a SLAM did not lighten them.
Background info, if it’s useful. Pool was put in last year. Everything was great that season. Had some serious landscaping and fence work done though that resulted in my main drain line being damaged and the pool losing all its water. Landscaper ended up paying the original pool installer to fix everything, but it ended up being pretty late in the year, so we didn’t swim in it at all after the line was repaired and the pool was refilled. I told the pool company I wanted the pool closed (first year closing was included in the cost of the pool install). A ton of dirt, leaves, etc. got in before they closed it. Kept up with it (water chemistry and cleaning) as best as I could, but skimming leaves when it’s 40 F out really sucks. The lines were blown out and capped and the pump was turned off for a few weeks (yes I know) before the cover was put on. I still tried to keep up on skimming as best as I could.
This year, I paid the pool company to open the pool. It was filthy when the cover was removed. A ton of debris was still in the water. They left me with a new bag of DE, popped a few trichlor pucks in the skimmer, and said they’d be back in a few days to add salt in and turn on the SWG. That never happened. I got down to 0 FC at one point, so I decided to do a SLAM just to be on the safe side. I also added salt, calcium chloride, and CYA since the pool had basically none.
tl;dr on this background section is my pool sat dirty and covered for quite some time.
Background info, if it’s useful. Pool was put in last year. Everything was great that season. Had some serious landscaping and fence work done though that resulted in my main drain line being damaged and the pool losing all its water. Landscaper ended up paying the original pool installer to fix everything, but it ended up being pretty late in the year, so we didn’t swim in it at all after the line was repaired and the pool was refilled. I told the pool company I wanted the pool closed (first year closing was included in the cost of the pool install). A ton of dirt, leaves, etc. got in before they closed it. Kept up with it (water chemistry and cleaning) as best as I could, but skimming leaves when it’s 40 F out really sucks. The lines were blown out and capped and the pump was turned off for a few weeks (yes I know) before the cover was put on. I still tried to keep up on skimming as best as I could.
This year, I paid the pool company to open the pool. It was filthy when the cover was removed. A ton of debris was still in the water. They left me with a new bag of DE, popped a few trichlor pucks in the skimmer, and said they’d be back in a few days to add salt in and turn on the SWG. That never happened. I got down to 0 FC at one point, so I decided to do a SLAM just to be on the safe side. I also added salt, calcium chloride, and CYA since the pool had basically none.
tl;dr on this background section is my pool sat dirty and covered for quite some time.
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