I’ve been very lax about pool care for the last 6 months and it is biting me big time. We are new pool owners, put the pool in in Summer of 2019.
Pool is 36,000 gallons, SWG. We had a big storm in late January and there was a lot of leaves and sticks at the bottom of the pool. On 1/31 I vacuumed out the debris using a water-pressure net thingy (nothing I vacuumed when into filter), and tested the pool chemistry. Pool was looking a bit green. Lots of chunky looking debris floating throughout (top/middle/bottom) pool. Zero chlorine. Panic. Added 2 gallons bleach. PH was 7.8, I added 1 gallon muriatic acid.
On 1/31 FC was up to 3, PH at 7.2. I added a lot of chlorine, I think about 8 gallons (I was in a bit of panic mode here) by 6:30pm CL was at 38.
On Feb 2 we took apart the cartridge filter. We had never cleaned the filters. The end caps were disintegrating. The PH on the pool has always run high, although very recently that seems to be abating a bit. We bought new filters and installed them.
By 2/4 pool did not look green anymore but there was still a lot of debris. FC down to 31.
2/7 FC at 20.5., PH about 7.6
2/8 FC at 20.5, PH 7.8, added 1 gallon MA, stuff floating in pool seemed to be on top of water
2/9 noticed that the debris left seemed to be black,FC at 16.5, PH 7.2
FC has continued to drift down. Today’s readings:
PH 7.4
FC 7.5
CC 0.5
TC 8.0
CH 550 (this has drifted up from last summer, where it was more like 450-475)
TA 60
CYA 40
I’ve been running the filter 20 hours a day and it just doesn’t seem to be picking up this black stuff. Or the white flakes.
I'm not sure what to do. I'm pretty bad at chemistry, so bear this in mind with any suggestions... I'm attaching pictures of debris in skimmer sock, a shot of the water where you can hopefully see the white flakes, and a picture of our net skimmer with the black debris in it...Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
Pool is 36,000 gallons, SWG. We had a big storm in late January and there was a lot of leaves and sticks at the bottom of the pool. On 1/31 I vacuumed out the debris using a water-pressure net thingy (nothing I vacuumed when into filter), and tested the pool chemistry. Pool was looking a bit green. Lots of chunky looking debris floating throughout (top/middle/bottom) pool. Zero chlorine. Panic. Added 2 gallons bleach. PH was 7.8, I added 1 gallon muriatic acid.
On 1/31 FC was up to 3, PH at 7.2. I added a lot of chlorine, I think about 8 gallons (I was in a bit of panic mode here) by 6:30pm CL was at 38.
On Feb 2 we took apart the cartridge filter. We had never cleaned the filters. The end caps were disintegrating. The PH on the pool has always run high, although very recently that seems to be abating a bit. We bought new filters and installed them.
By 2/4 pool did not look green anymore but there was still a lot of debris. FC down to 31.
2/7 FC at 20.5., PH about 7.6
2/8 FC at 20.5, PH 7.8, added 1 gallon MA, stuff floating in pool seemed to be on top of water
2/9 noticed that the debris left seemed to be black,FC at 16.5, PH 7.2
FC has continued to drift down. Today’s readings:
PH 7.4
FC 7.5
CC 0.5
TC 8.0
CH 550 (this has drifted up from last summer, where it was more like 450-475)
TA 60
CYA 40
I’ve been running the filter 20 hours a day and it just doesn’t seem to be picking up this black stuff. Or the white flakes.
I'm not sure what to do. I'm pretty bad at chemistry, so bear this in mind with any suggestions... I'm attaching pictures of debris in skimmer sock, a shot of the water where you can hopefully see the white flakes, and a picture of our net skimmer with the black debris in it...Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
