Cloudy water - HELP - what is floc??

[sdavis250]

can't clear up cloudy water, have above ground Intex pool with blow up ring. Nothing has helped, algae treatment, shock, clarifier!!! what is floc???

[Backglass]

Using your test kit, please post a full set of number so we can see where your water is at. Otherwise we would just be guessing.

Floc is a coagulant that bind tiny particles together so that they can be vacuumed and filtered. It doesn't work on live algae or anything...it's for the final "polish" of your water when things are 99% there.

[Sally]

I have the same kind of pool a 16x31/2 ft. My water got cloudy just all of a sudden after about 6weeks of nice water. I just got ph minus because that was high. I am trying everything !!

[Anne]

I used floc and all the fine particles are at the bottom of the pool and the water is clear......until i try to vacuum it with the vacuum that came with the pool (the one that attaches to a garden hose). the waterthen turns cloudy because all the particles get stirred up. How do I vacuum or clean the pool to get all the junk out of the pool. When we had an inground pool, we could just vacuum it on waste. too bad that is not an option. what do I do?

[Guest]

I used floc and all the fine particles are at the bottom of the pool and the water is clear......until i try to vacuum it with the vacuum that came with the pool (the one that attaches to a garden hose). the waterthen turns cloudy because all the particles get stirred up. How do I vacuum or clean the pool to get all the junk out of the pool. When we had an inground pool, we could just vacuum it on waste. too bad that is not an option. what do I do?

when you vaccum , do it very very slowly the faster you push the vacuum head across the bottom on the pool the more you will stir up I learned this the hard way hope this works for you

[Backglass]

I used floc and all the fine particles are at the bottom of the pool and the water is clear......until i try to vacuum it with the vacuum that came with the pool (the one that attaches to a garden hose). the waterthen turns cloudy because all the particles get stirred up. How do I vacuum or clean the pool to get all the junk out of the pool. When we had an inground pool, we could just vacuum it on waste. too bad that is not an option. what do I do?

You CANNOT use a cheap venturi (garden hose) type vacuum to suck up floc. It is much too fine. You have to a real pool vacuum (a hose than connects directly to the skimmer) and a filter that has a WASTE setting, otherwise you will never get it out.

You could try a simple siphon with a garden hose to remove the settled floc to the yard. Just move reeeeeeaaallllly slow.

[guest]

unfortuatly the intex pools do not come with a vacuum that hooks up to a skimmer maybe you could give advice on something else that might work

[Backglass]

unfortuatly the intex pools do not come with a vacuum that hooks up to a skimmer maybe you could give advice on something else that might work

The only thing I can think of would be a conventional pool vacuum on a pole, a 1-1/2 pool vacuum hose and siphon it into the yard. Move the vacuum slowly and suck up all the "snowballs" from the floc.