CLEARING UP A GREEN POOL, Movie magic or can it be this easy...

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I think you're confusing "3 days" with "effortlessly" -- he didn't film either the effort or the skill involved.

I can clean a pool like that in three days, too. I've turned pools from green swamp to gray-blue in 3 hours.

But I can't teach y'all to do it. There are too many if's, and's and but's involved.

Vacuuming settled floc is a SKILL I can demonstrate, but not one I can teach easily with a video, much less with words. Every single time I've ever tried to get a homeowner or lifeguard to vacuum settled floc out, they've made a mess of it, stirring it all up, breaking the floc and generally making things worse than they were before. This has even happened when I worked with them (guards) for 30 minutes doing the "Do it like this. Now, you try. No, not like that! Like this!" dance. I STILL came back to floc soup.

Granted, there are folks here who are NOT all thumbs and who can and will follow careful instructions. But there's no little star by their internet IP number that tells me, OK, this guy can do it for real! And, generally speaking people can't.

For every time I've heard of someone using floc successfully, I've heard 20 times of someone making a mess. A process that has -- under the conditions that apply here -- a 95% failure rate is NOT one I'll be recommending.

The information here is selected on the concept of trying to give average pool owners methods they can almost always use successfully.

Ben


PS. If I sound a little irked, I am. I've got 25 years experience trying to teach teen age lifeguards and 20-something pool managers how to do this or that. The guy in that video seemingly has little or no experience trying to teach folks a skill. I checked some of his videos -- the guy is an engineer, who's uploaded a number of "look what I can do" videos. There are guys like that, with a tremendous knack for things mechanical (I'm not among them). If you can find a mechanic like that, to work on your car, you are fortunate. But those guys are not helpful teachers or useful role models.

hahaha dont worry buddy, i cant speak for other people but i can assume that everyone is very appreciative of your advice. i know i am. i think thats why this thread is actually a good one, because when we see something on tv or online, we want to know more about it. flock falls into that category for sure. the idea of adding something to the water, having it drop everything down to be vacuumed up is a great one. its good that you inject real world experience and let people know that it may help but it takes finesse and isnt as easy as it seems. i think thats life in general.

lol@the lifeguard thing. i was a lifeguard during college summers for three years. i was responsible and on top of my job, but even a responsible 20 year old isnt very responsible. dont let the guy get under your skin too much. there are tons of shmucks in this world, just chalk him up as another one and enjoy your day.

im going to stick with the bbb method and really try to keep on top of it. it may be cloudy but , my pool smells fantastic haahahah