I had to open the pool late due to repairs to plaster in the shallow end. There was a lot of organic material in the deep end that wasn't emptied, very green (and frog city). I used fair amount of algaecide before I learned that was a mistake. The pool is now full and i can finally vac to waste without having to dump the skimmer basket of debris. Pool is mostly blue, but cloudy. Even in normal years it's always cloudy when I open and only flock has helped. Now I'm wondering if flock is what damaged the plaster in the shallow end. I slamed the vinyl pool at our last house with much success, but same effort with the plaster pool at current house has not been as successful. I blame me, but it's odd given the process is simple.
I'm going to stop all my nonsense and get back to slamming, but the point of this post is to ask about DE. Very excited to use that vs flock, but the top google search result which linked to this site did not mention there was pool grade DE (see link below). I only found this out by looking at results further down within the forums. Might be something good to add to that blog page. Add DE to a Sand Filter
My question (actually got there) is what effect, if any, does 3 cups of food grade DE have to the pool? Is food grade just finer and pointless? I'm not worried about human consumption if it remains in the water at that dilution.
I'm going to stop all my nonsense and get back to slamming, but the point of this post is to ask about DE. Very excited to use that vs flock, but the top google search result which linked to this site did not mention there was pool grade DE (see link below). I only found this out by looking at results further down within the forums. Might be something good to add to that blog page. Add DE to a Sand Filter
My question (actually got there) is what effect, if any, does 3 cups of food grade DE have to the pool? Is food grade just finer and pointless? I'm not worried about human consumption if it remains in the water at that dilution.