Issues w/ stains, from iron, copper, & other metals & with copper-based products: Nature2, Vision, Frog, Ionizers, skimmer pills, Pristine Blue, Chlor-Free & . . . ?
This was posted by PoolDoc in another thread this morning. It is concise and simple. A more thorough guide for dealing with metals in a pool is in...
____________________________________________ 10 Basic Facts about Pool Stains Stain removal with ascorbic acid Bucket test for the presence...
___________________________________________ 10 Basic Facts about Pool Stains ___________________________________________ 1. Most pool stains...
I have a 10K fiberglass pool that has iron stains. Although Ascorbic acid works great it makes it difficult to manage the chlorine levels (even with...
TODAY'S NUMBERS: FC 2.0 cc .5 PH 7 ALK 60 CYA 80 Hi, and thank you in advance! The water is not green, but it is very cloudy and I cannot...
I have a very hard well with super high iron content. I found the metaltrap 6 at http://hydropuretechnologies.com/ that removes just about all the...
New liner in 22000 in ground pool. Filled with well water. Now green-brown. Would like ti REMOVE iron if possible. No other water source available.
I get brown stains in my fiberglass pool all the time. I can effectively remove them with oxalic acid, but it always turns the water cloudy for...
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....
Hi Marie. I actually found a way to remove iron - really remove it. No more chemicals!!! We took a 5-gal bucket (Fresh Step kitty litter,...
PoolDoc note: I'm extending the information originally in this thread, to create a general Permasalt FAQ. ...
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...
We have an above ground pool. It's an 18 by 52. We are on WELL water. We filled it and it was nice and clear. Then I put Shock and Swim in it and its...
I recently added 2 qts. of metal out to my 27,000 gal. pool. It cleared up the stains beautifully. Then the water clouded up and turned green so I...
I have a 25K gal plaster pool which was painted 2 summers ago. In doing our opening this became victim to a stain which is covering about 85% of the...
Hi, I opened our pool a few weeks ago. It was a fairly easy open and the water was sparkling clear within a day or two (and still is). However I...
I purchased an 15' by 48" (4400 gallons) Intex metal frame pool this year and filled it up with well water. It looked ok at first but once it got...
Has anybody ever used the Nature 2 system? At some point every year I have developed a black algae problem which, as most know, is very tough to get...
We have struggled with getting our pool clean all summer so about 10 days ago we completly drained the pool and filled it with fresh water. It was...
Hello all. I have a 33' above ground pool that had a really bad algae problem. We use Pristine Blue so the pool ppl said to drain it so we did. ...
I need help. I've been to the pool store twice already and nothing seems to help. We installed a 15' Intext above ground pool last weekend. ...
So glad you guys are back :) Might as well be among the first of the needy ! Background, have a small fiberglass pool that uses a heat...
I have stains on the bottom and sides of my pool and on the advice of PoolDoc I dropped a vitamin C tablet on one of the stains. The tablet removed...
Any links would be appreciated. Thanks
Do I use an ascorbic solution as mentioned in here or use a Jack Magic Magenta type of solution and add metal free for a few days.There is a 1.5 ppm...
Hello all! My family has moved to a home with an in-ground, vinyl lined pool. We live in the upper midwest, and our pool is open from mid-May until...
The entire pool has developed a light yellow coating that comes off if I rub crushed vitamin C on it. Is there a chemical that I can put into the...
FAQ: "Stains & Metal Matters: Iron, Copper, Silver & More" About copper and silver based 'sanitizers' . . . Metal based treatment systems...
Hi all! Newbie here....new and stupid. Bought an Intex 15' x 42" Easy Up for the kids, spent a week clearing, leveling & setting the thing up....
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...
I've been using Jack's Magic Purple Stuff successfully for several years to prevent metal staining in my salt water pool (I use a SWCG for...
Hi everyone, I read several threads on here about removing stains and really appreciate the knowledge stored here! I brought my Chlorine level...
It's been many years since I've needed to post...due solely to the sage advice of those in this forum. Thank you for giving me the knowledge that has...
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