Quote Originally Posted by kidgarden
Last fall I had 3 different "POOL SPECIALISTS" work on my pool. It went from green to black. The last guy said to wait till spring and the algae should be clumped together on the bottom. Well, the stink coming from my pool is all but unbearable and when I called the pool guy, he wont come out. (he said he doesn't know what else to try).
Im planning on draining it now but being that no-one is willing to help me, I dont have a clue how to do it. How do you keep the vinyl liner of an inground pool from coming loss. Do I take a pressure washer to the walls as its draining. (they are stained) When I refill it, how many lbs of shock to make sure, whatever I had doesnt come back.
I think, before offering prescriptions, it would be best to get some more information from you. I will offer a couple of "DON'TS" though:
  • Do NOT drain, unless you really know what you are doing: you'll destroy the liner on IN-GROUND pools. (AG pools can be easy to drain -- sometimes.)
  • Pressure washers and vinyl liners are not generally compatible.
You say the pool went from green to black -- are you talking about algae?

You say the pool is stained -- do you mean that there's stuff on the liner, or that you've cleaned off areas of the liner, and that after you do, there's still a non-slippery stain on those areas?

Does your filter and circulating system work? Are you filtering 24/7 now? If not, why not?

What all was added to your pool by those three specialists? (At this point, you not only have to deal with whatever *was* wrong with your pool, but also with whatever they added.)

Please list all the different chemicals you know have been added to your pool since mid-summer last year.

Do you have an SWG, a feeder of any kind, or a ionizer, mineralizer, or any such thing on your pool? If so, how has it been used?

Do you have any test results on your pool? What do they show? Can you get current test results? What are they?

*** EVERYBODY ELSE -- PLEASE LET "kidgarden" BEFORE OFFERING MORE ADVICE. POOLS THAT HAVE BEEN 'TREATED' BY MULTIPLE PEOPLE TEND TO BE A NIGHTMARE SOUP. WHAT MIGHT *GENERALLY* BE GOOD ADVICE, CAN BE A REALLY BAD IDEA IN SUCH CASES. ***

Ben
"PoolDoc"