Forum: Dealing with Stains & Metals, . . . and 'Minerals' & 'Ions',

Or are Total Dissolved Solids something I never really need to worry about with respect to iron stains and balanced water? 15 year old vinyl liner...

I have a 13000 gal pool and have brown stains on the skimmer. what is wrong?

I have had my 45,000 gallon, concrete pool (cartridge filter;chlorine) for 5 years and have never had trouble with metal stains before. This year, I...

Hi All, I am a practicer of the BBB...My vinyl lined pool has never been cloudy and maintenance has been a snap for 7 years.. It is a heated...

Hello everyone, Im the son of a long time pool owner with a new pool installed last year (17.2k gallons, vinyl) - it's been running well, and I've...

Need to remove copper from pool water which was from water from my well, which turned it clear green. are there any suggestions for metal removing...

I have a 16x32 gunite pool, 6.5ft deep end, 6 years old and converted from chlorine to pentair salt generator 2 years ago. I originally questioned...

I believe my ph was too high and I now have brown, rusty type spots on the sides and bottom of pool. what is the best thing to treat them with? My...

I have a bottle of Doheny's Metal Out (MAIN INGREDIENT: (Hydroxyethylidene) diphosphonic acid 60%) I didn't see anywhere that this is ok to use as...

We rented out our house for a year and left the pool in the care of a pool service for our renters. Upon our return, I was dismayed to find lots of...

Pool and forum newbie. Thanks for the great forum. I've done a lot of reading here so far after turning my new pool water brown. So now I know my...

Hi, I've only been doing the pool thing for 1.5 yrs and my experiment with a copper ionization system hasn't ended very well, so I'm switching to...

Would a sand filter, filter out iron particles if I added diatomaceous earth (D.E.)?

hi, my pool is not green anymore and I have the metal stain under control. See my post "green water" but Now we have a cloudy deep end. You can...

Vinyl, SWG. Rails are oxidizing (planning to paint tomorrow), could it be from this? Today, I found this shown in the pic. Specifically, the white...

I'm thinking I need to test since I'm having some slight staining, son threw a battery in pool AND my SWCG has the copper boost which my husband...

Hi I am new to forum and I have a question about the ascorbic acid treatment. I have a 15K fiberglass pool that had yellowish/brown staining on...

I've had a 20x40 ft vinyl pool for 40 years. I have a sand filter. I fill from a well and carefully try to limit backwash times so as to minimize...

Hi All My pool was opened 6 days ago. Water was down three plus feet. so I filled it with town municipal water (known to be high in metals). The...

I opened my 15,000 gallon, salt water, vinyl liner pool and finally after a week of shocking I can now see the bottom albeit a little cloudy. I...

We just recently set up a pool for the kids. Got the pump running put a puck in and now the water turned a yellow tint. Why did this happen? ...

Hello all, new pool owner here, but have owned a hot tub for awhile so know most of the simple chemistry issues with water balance. New 33' round...

I have a light brown stain on fiberglass stairs and a couple of small areas on vinyl liner. Read a lot about the acsorbic acid method (the vitamin C...

Info is correct, but method needs rewriting Few people seem to be able to follow this process successfully, because it is too hard for most....

10 years after installing a fiberglass pool I'm starting to experience a staining problem. I'm refilling from a well and based on what I've learned...

I had my very first pool put in, in February. THrilled to death we have been very happy and enjoying it. We had to get a replaster job about 6 weeks...

I have an 8 month old gunite pool in Oklahoma. It is 15,000 gallons and is not heated. I have an ozone chlorinator. I am battling brownish stains...

Doing a "Bucket Test" for Metals In a perfect world, you'd always know everything you need to know about your pool. And, you'd know when you...