First pool, might be our LAST...name says it all!

[aylad]

Hey, welcome back!! I've been wondering how your pool was doing this season, I'm really glad that you checked in with us!! And...congrats on ordering the good test kit--you'll be glad you did.

Interesting that the sock filter is more efficient than the paper filters at filtering out the metals/tannins--we're trying to come up with some uniform steps that Intex owners with well water can follow to deal with the metals, but I'm not sure we had considered the difference in filter media. Have to think on that one some...

Anyway, glad to see you back, and don't forget, we're here all year round!!

Janet

[swamp mistress]

I was very suprised when the pool water turned green then brown after using the metal filter, but once I saw I could trap the "color" in the socks I went that route, just replacing the sock filter until rinsing produced little - no color. I took a picture of the rinse water to show how nasty it was, but couldn't upload it.

I wonder if I stuffed the sock filter with those "color catcher" sheets they sell in the laundry isle of the supermarket, if it would help catch color faster, maybe it wouldn't take 5 days at the beginning...hmmm. May sound silly but unless and until we're committed to buying a better/bigger pool, we can't justify spending hundreds on a sand filter. Also, it didn't help that we had to patch about 15 holes just in the air ring and another 6 holes along the sides this year...at this rate next year we'll have more patches than pool!

When I bought the metal filter, I saw an "organic filter", I'm guessing that's the one I should have purchased for tannins.

[aylad]

I'm not sure about the "color catcher" sheets--I'd be really skeptical about using them in my pool until I knew for sure that there's no detergent or other chemical on them that might create a problem with the pool water, but we could always research it and see.

We'd like to see your pics--if you'll email them to poolforum DOT pics AT gmail DOT com and reference the URL of this thread, Ben can get them uploaded for you....

Janet

[swamp mistress]

I just sent 3 pics to Ben..hopefully he'll be able to post them. I took one of my goofy sock filter, one of the gunk I sqeezed out of it, and an "after" picture of the pool water. Keep in mind, the brown water in the bucket is only from about 6 inches of fill water. When I initially started filtering the entire pool those 5 days, the gunk was dark, dark brown like coffee.