I took a peak under the cover and the bottom of my pool is covered with algae. Stopped by a couple of places and haven't gotten a straight answer from anyone and what I've been told its going to cost me big bucks to get rid of the problem. Do I really have to lay out all this money in chemicals that only they can put in? Then they have to come vacuum it out because if I do it is going to clog my pipes and mess up my filter. Don't add anything with out running the filter but I can't run the filter or I'll have a bigger problem. Also was told that maybe I should drain it and clean it that way but again someone else says you should never drain a pool.
So I'm really confused on where to even start. I've read something about just adding bleach and vacuuming it waste. Do I need to do anything before doing this or do I just take the cover off and dump it in? The pool came with the house so we are fairly new at all of this...it will be our third summer.
Sarah
Algae Problem...Please Help!
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Hi Sarah
Sorry to hear you are getting conflicting advice from so called experts.
The filter clogging thing refers to D.E. filters. The pipe clogging thing is bs.
I would remove the cover. Increase the chlorine level to 20 mg/l. wait 24 hours and if the pool is cloudy hit it again, until I can vaccum to waste. That should do the trick for you.
HTH
Sorry to hear you are getting conflicting advice from so called experts.
The filter clogging thing refers to D.E. filters. The pipe clogging thing is bs.
I would remove the cover. Increase the chlorine level to 20 mg/l. wait 24 hours and if the pool is cloudy hit it again, until I can vaccum to waste. That should do the trick for you.
HTH
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- Swimming Pool Superstar
- Posts: 290
- Joined: Thu 23 Nov, 2006 17:23
- My Pool: one of them is 713,342 gallons
I look after lots and lots - Location: Perth, Western Australia
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