Bought house, with pool, it was left untouched for a few years 2

[*ryan]

Bought this house, was a foreclosure
came with a pool, wasnt looking for one, but i have it, and would like to get it working
long turm goals would be saltwater, mainly for ease on dogs skin, and maybe a solar heater, ranch home, equipment right next to the house, lots of roof room, which gets 10+ hours of hot sun all day
it is an inground, 11x31 ish pool, about 4' deep all around, has some benches in it too built in, not a liner, fiberglass pool i would say

pool was covered, but had no inflators under the cover, and it was ripped
so lots of leaves and debris got in

took the cover off
bough a leaf bag attachment instead of the pool skimmer
scouped out the leaves, everyday i go out and try to scoup more, once it gets dispurced i give up and wait till the next day
i have lot of brown silt like material, which i would imaigne is decaying leaves and algea
put in 2 gallons of bleech

still scouping

i pulled out all the winterizing plugs, and put all the doodads and plugs back into the filter
filled up the skimmer basket
and put the vlave onto backwash and started it up, motor is not frozen which is good
backwashed for a min, put it onto rinse, for a min, then to filter

stuff started to blow out of the 2 output jets
air
and then a cloud of white, looked like old chemicals or something
ran for abotu 10 min
then the filter was still running but the jets started to buble out and then stop
turned off fitler
put on backwash
for 1 min
then to filter
and it started up again

i am missing the large pool skimmer basket in the pool
but the small one is not glogged
since the white cloud came out i have a thick black film has started to build up on the surface of the water
this is what i feel is happening
the film is getting sucked into the filter and glogging it right away

so i have to backwash it clean
then start the filter up again

no?
yes?

i have some pics of the equipment i have and the white clouds that formed

it says its a 30" filter, i would imagine it is sand

how do i go about tackling this?
ive heard if i pump it out the pool might pop out of the ground due to diferances in hydrodstatic pressure

this is my first pool, so i am happy to learn and hoping too
thank you for all your help
and ideas on getting my pool up and running

[aylad]

Wow, you have quite a project there. I will alert Ben to stop by and take a look at this thread, see if he can offer any help.

Welcome to the forum!!

Janet

[PoolDoc]

Hi Ryan;

Do three things:

#1 - send some pictures to poolforum AT gmail DOT com
#2 - check out your physical cleaning equipment, and see if you have the gear to vacuum to waste. Trying to clean up goop like that with chemicals could easily consume more than 100 gallons of chlorine.
#3 - Let us kmov hwo ist gomig, jut plaese ues a teal keyboard instead of whatever you are using -- for our sake. ;-)

Thanks,

Ben

[CarlD]

You need to get all the debris and junk out of the water you can. Keep at it.

Putting in bleach was not a bad idea. If the pool is small as you indicated (I'm guessing 10,000 gallons) then that would have been a good starter--but you'd have to put it in repeatedly.

Have you filled the pool with fresh water? I'm guessing it was low and you did or the pump and filter wouldn't have been able to do anything. You can drain off 3/4 of the water and refill. Leave at least a foot of water in the shallowest section when you do that--don't drain more--you know why.

Carl

You WILL need to test your water for what's in it. We can only guess and that's not the best thing for you.

[*ryan]

Hi Ryan;

Do three things:

#1 - send some pictures to poolforum AT gmail DOT com

Ben

1 is done, sent the pics over

it was full, the rain kept it at the right height, as did all the snow we had this year

have testing gear for the water, but figured at this point it doesnt matter as i should get all the crap out first

i have started the draining process, thank you siphon
am going to call around for water delivery, i have a well and dont want to burn out my pump

[Watermom]

Having water delivered is probably not a bad idea. We run into all kinds of people who have trouble with their pools as a result of filling with well water.

[PoolDoc]

Here are your pics.

One caution: do NOT drain if ground surrounding your pool is wet. It looks like you are on level ground, which means water could gather under your liner and lift it, if your drain much from the pool.

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