A friend was supposed to help me maintain it while we were gone and did not. I can't get the water clear no matter what I do now. I am so upset about this, anyone know how to help get the water to not look like milk?
2006-07-30 03:56:30 · 7 answers · asked by katscratch12692000 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
You didn't say what you have tried so far. I'm going to assume some things and base my answer on typical situations.
Unless you have a really good and inexpensive water supply you might want to try a couple of things before you dump and refill. You will see though that because of all the possible chemical treatments and filtration that follow it might be easier to dump and refill. However, you will still need to treat the new water or it will get cloudy sooner or later again. So if you are going to have to treat it anyway then it may be worth trying to clean up what you have.
The short answer is to take a pint sample of your pool water to a pool supply place for testing and then follow their recommendations. They will usually test your water for free and tell you what you need to do to restore proper water balance of pH, total alkalinity and calcium hardness levels as well as tell you if you have algae and what to do to kill it and achieve adequate chlorine levels. Of course they hope you will buy supplies and chemicals from them, but you don't have to unless you like their service.
Some of the things they will probably find and recommend are discussed below so the long answer follows.
One thing you should consider is to get a thing called a "Slime Bag". This is a bag that filters 5 to 10 times finer particles than the cartidge filter that comes with most of the above ground EZ Setup pools. A number of online places carry them and you probably need the 12"X30" Polishing Bag for your setup. It attaches where the water flows into your pool from the pump. Before you use it you should figure out whether you have algae or a chemical imbalance or both and solve that. Then use the Slime Bag to filter the particles our of the water that is causing it to be cloudy.
Short of having a Slime Bag, you could use a clarifier or floculent treatment, which will cause the particles to clump so the cartridge filter will trap them. Be ready to wash out the fillter frequently and maybe even replace it after a few washings.
First you have to treat the cause of the cloudiness.
Cloudy water is one of the most common pool problems and can be caused by a number of factors. It can be a symptom of inadequate filtration, pH imbalance, or inadequate chlorine levels. The cure depends on the cause. My guess is that you have either or both a pH imbalance and low chlorine levels. Combine that with a wimpy filter system and it's no wonder the water is cloudy.
Most likely if no chlorine has been added for several days then your pool is suffering from low free available chlorine levels, which allows algae and other microbes to multiply freely, creating an organic haze. You will need to shock or super-chlorinate the pool and maintain adequate chlorine levels along with pH, hardness and alkilinity. Unfortunately this will kill the algae, which must then be filtered out. That's where the Slime Bag makes filtering much quicker.
If pH is the problem then you will need to adjust pH, alkilinity and calcium hardness. This might help reduce the cloudiness some, but the scale will probably need to be treated with a scale remover and filtered to really clear things up. Again, the slime Bag will help speed up the filtering process.
There's a lot here, but hopefully it will help you at least understand what might have caused the cloudiness and have some idea about how to proceed.
Good luck and have fun with the rest of your swimming season.
Jim
2006-07-31 10:23:27 · answer #1 · answered by Jim B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Quick Set Ring Pool
2016-11-10 22:22:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you go to the pool store, there is a thing called a shocker. It's basically like a super germ killer that clears up your water. Anyways, pour that stuff in your pool and there is also this stuff that clears up water but I forgot what it is called. Go to your nearest pool store and ask. I live in arizona, I know a lot about pools.
2006-07-30 04:00:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those pools barely have the filter/pump capacity to stay clean when starting with fresh water. Let alone starting with swamp water. Drain it and clean it out, then start over. Otherwise you are going to spend hours and hours- and lots of bucks- ending in frustration. Dump it and be done with it.
2006-07-30 04:56:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-28 15:38:49 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pour a gallon of bleach in it, wait a day and then add water to the pool
2006-07-30 03:59:54 · answer #6 · answered by bobsled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drain and refill! Did you get their agreement to help in writing? If not..oh well, you should have.. If you did-drain and refill the pool then sue them for the stuff you had to do to fix it!
2006-07-30 03:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋