I have a intex pool and I need to know how long it will take after i add shockit that the color will change?

Question

My pool turned green from no one being it and also no treatment I need to know how long till my pool will become clear again?

Answer 1

I can't give you a time frame without seeing the pool, it's a judgement call. I can tell you how to deal with it however.
First and foremost, get a decent water analysis. Take a sample to your pool shop, I can garantee that test kit you're using is only testing Ph and Cl. There's actually a few other things, especially total alkalinity that ought to be checked on a weekly basis as well.
Get your water balanced. Nothing you put in the pool to combat the alage will work until you do. You're just pouring money away. Keep your chorine levels up to at least 3.0. It kills algae. Clean out your filter, that algae is going there. Shock shock shock. and add an algaecide such as a polyquat based one. It's expensive, but works a heck of a lot better than the cheap stuff you buy by the huge jug. Follow the directions on the container.
In future. Keep your water balanced, filter clean, pool bottom clean and sanitizer level between 1.5 - 3.0 and you won't see the green monster. Period. It's only when you miss one of those, that it rears it's ugly head. At the first sign of it, check your chemistry, adjust as needed and double your shock dose (you are shocking weekly, right?) and make sure the chlorine puck floatie is full.
That's it. Sorry about not being able to give a time frame, but I don't know if you can see the bottom or it's so green your hand dissapears 3 inches underwater.

Answer 2

Shocking the pool will not get rid of the green color. Adding sufficient pool shock will kill the algae, but the green color will still remain until you filter it out or replace the water. You didn't specify how many gallons are in your pool, or if you had a filtration system.

Once the pool is clear, you need to keep the chlorine level high. Most pool stores recommend 2-4 ppm. I keep mine at 10 or greater, and I never have a problem with algae.

Answer 3

Green means ALGEA. You can never swim in your pool and it won't make it green. Algea growing in there is what makes it green.

Shock may help, be sure you are using enough. Put it in at night and you can swim the next day. But, if it's really green, you will probably need to FLOCK it. Get FLOCKULENT and use it according to directions. The next day, all that green algea (like moss!) will be in a messy sweepy pile at the bottom of the pool. Flock attaches itself to the algea, and it settles. THEN you need to vacuum up all the mess. Wait a few hours, no on in the pool, vac again when it settles. THEN you can swim in clear water!

Be sure to take a sample to a good pool place. They will give you a list of numbers/readings, not just four.

Answer 4

uncover out what number of gallons it holds,it must let you know at the field.get an empty 5 gallon bucket,and utilizing the hose you propose on filling the pool with,begin filling the bucket and time it for one minute.after one minute put off the hose and notice what number of gallons you may have within the bucket.so one can deliver you gallons consistent with minute.multiply that quantity instances 60 and that's what number of gallons consistent with hour.divide that quantity by way of the quantity of gallons the pool holds,and so one can let you know what number of hours it is going to take to fill your pool.

Answer 5

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