LVpool
04-19-2011, 01:19 PM
Help - I'm a new pool owner and would appreciate any advice, or a direct to info that's already been posted about this problem.
My inground pool is 16,000 gallons, I have a Nautilus FNS filter. When I bought the house in December, it had been empty for almost a year; the pool had a lot of debris in the bottom, mostly from the surrounding fir trees, but wasn't green or cloudy.
I hired a pool company to do bi-weekly visits, but the pool got cloudy last month. It turned out that there was a crack in the filter manifold; I got that fixed, and decided to do my own chemicals.
Went to the pool store and got DE, chlorine tablets, test kit (Ph, CC, alkalinity), algicide, shock, and granulated chlorine. Backwashed filter, added the DE, shocked the pool (company sold what they said would be enough to shock the pool), added algicide, vacuumed the pool - sorry, can't remember in what order. The result was that the chlorine and Ph levels were good.
The Ph levels have remained good, but the chlorine keeps disappearing. I've added granulated chlorine, used chlorine tablet in a floater, put in liquid chlorine, and shock, and the chlorine disappears in a matter of hours. The pool is clear. There's a layer of brownish residue at the bottom, but don't know if it's dirt. Underneath there's what seems to be staining, a light brown/green layer.
It's possible that I haven't shocked it sufficiently - is there an outer limit of chlorine I can/should add?
My inground pool is 16,000 gallons, I have a Nautilus FNS filter. When I bought the house in December, it had been empty for almost a year; the pool had a lot of debris in the bottom, mostly from the surrounding fir trees, but wasn't green or cloudy.
I hired a pool company to do bi-weekly visits, but the pool got cloudy last month. It turned out that there was a crack in the filter manifold; I got that fixed, and decided to do my own chemicals.
Went to the pool store and got DE, chlorine tablets, test kit (Ph, CC, alkalinity), algicide, shock, and granulated chlorine. Backwashed filter, added the DE, shocked the pool (company sold what they said would be enough to shock the pool), added algicide, vacuumed the pool - sorry, can't remember in what order. The result was that the chlorine and Ph levels were good.
The Ph levels have remained good, but the chlorine keeps disappearing. I've added granulated chlorine, used chlorine tablet in a floater, put in liquid chlorine, and shock, and the chlorine disappears in a matter of hours. The pool is clear. There's a layer of brownish residue at the bottom, but don't know if it's dirt. Underneath there's what seems to be staining, a light brown/green layer.
It's possible that I haven't shocked it sufficiently - is there an outer limit of chlorine I can/should add?