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

[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