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

[PoolDoc]

I don't think he's a shmuck -- just a little full of himself. I can't whine about that better, since that's a quality my family has observed in me. ;-0

It's just that he's leading folks down a yellow-brick road right into the witch's lair. I can't blame him -- I really doubt that he knows that. So I don't really have anyone to be irked 'at' -- I just wish he hadn't done that.

Ben

[dcarlton]

Last year, before I found this forum, our pool turned milky and no matter what we did we could not get it clear. The pool place suggested flocking it and I said sure. They sold me the stuff and off I went.

Did as they said in my 24 round pool and yes, flock will do what it's supposed to. It looked like it had snowed in the bottom of the pool. This was about at the end of the season so we were trying to close it and get it clear before we did. Vacuuming the stuff to waste was no problem.

However, the pool was as full as it could be of water and of course vacuuming it to waste sucked it down pretty good. As a newbie to this, I did it slowly and carefully but managed to get a lot of it on the first go around. I had to put more water in the pool, wait for it to settle again and get the rest of it.

It does and will try your patience, you have to go slow and be careful not to stir it up. It's almost like holding your breath and trying not to sneeze.

[PoolDoc]

Hi DC;

You're exactly right about what it takes: "it's almost like holding your breath and trying not to sneeze" is a GREAT description of it.

The problem is that a LOT of the folk here were in a hurry before they got here, and in even more of a hurry by the time they decide to look into something as strange as a "BBB method". Just to get them to slow down, test their pool, stop adding goo, and clean their filters is as much as we can do. Trying to get them to spend several hours (depending on vacuum head, suction, and so on) slowly and meticulously vacuuming their pool is just a recipe for disaster.

I constantly cut and trim things toward my thumb; I don't recall ever cutting myself that way. But I NEVER teach my Scouts to cut that way!

Ben

[pbotz2000]

1ST thanks for the responses, i have no problem hearing opposing opinions. ive learned tons here over the yrs and felt this was infomercial fake..
Aside from using floc, will algaecide alone give similar results to what this video shows. In the video he only shows adding algaecide to kill off the current algae. When he reutrns the next day the water is visibally much better, aside from the floating white residue on top. He mentions no type of sanatizer added, and uses the floc to drop the floaties to the bottom for easy vacuuming.

whats the general opinion of adding say a complete bottle of good algaecide to a green pool and not adding any other chemicals. Than running your filter to circulate the water.
Can this alone make GREEN GO CLEAN or at least turn green water noticabally clearer and much closer to having a clean pool.

please dont take this as if im doubting anyones opinion or knowledge on the forum., i like to know my options and methods of handling a GREEN MONSTER POOL.
Currently im a bbb user and have achieved good results that way using techniques learned here.

[Watermom]

Algaecide is better at preventing algae than clearing up and existing bloom.

[PBLsQuad450]

I'm not understanding the line of logic. Been dealing with a pool for almost my entire conscious life (missing a few years back in the mid 80's, but I know they were way fun). This forum has de-mystified the process and chemistry like nothing else. The chlorine (sodum hypochlorite/bleach) will kill everything. Getting the dead stuff out is a different issue. Flock to weight down dead algea and other organic waste is a way to do that but it is a bit like using caviar to de-ice your driveway instead of rock salt. This is strictly a filtration issue. DE in a sand filter works well. If the issue is a bit too much for that, vac to waste works great. Fill to absolute max. On waste I have about 17-20 minutes of vac time before getting to below half of the skimmer. Fill. Repeat. And again. Using a brush, you can gently push the dead algae to a spot that stuff naturally gathers the day before vac'ing. Let's you get more bang for the limited time. Takes a whole day but not non-stop work. And once a year at most. I have not needed to do this in two years though.

Take your time, be patient and use the simplest methods possible. Use them well. I wish I could get people to think like that in their every day lives because it works. If your equipment is mis-matched you MUST fix that because it will haunt you until you do.

Kill it. Chill. Push it to where you want it. Chill. Vac to waste. Chill. Repeat. Chill. DE vac. Chill. Swim for the rest of summer.