Having Trouble Cleaning a Pool..

[BoredOne]

It's a function of time, filtration, and vacuuming.

You should think about clearing it AFTER you are pretty sure all the algae is dead. ALL the algae.

The key ingredient here is P.O.P. -- pool owner patience, or sometimes, pool owner persistence.

If you get impatient or in a hurry, and go buy some "floc" or other pool store chemicals, you can *sometimes* speed things up. But, there's some skill involved -- doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time -- and also some luck, because different 'blends' of muck react differently with various types of floc. Experienced pool service guys can usually be successful with this stuff, particularly when they've gotten used to working successfully with a particular product. But what happens, more often than now, when pool OWNERS use that stuff is that they make it worse, not better.

And, it's possible to make it MUCH worse. Many clarifiers actually work in reverse, suspending guck rather than sinking it, or making fine particles harder to filter rather than easier, if you misuse them.

Well much to my surprise this morning I wasn't really feeling great so I left the pool alone, later in the evening I went out to check on it while there was still some day light left and the pool was actually fairly crystal clear.. I can see all the grime that is kinda stuck to the floor of the deep end and can see perfectly that the drain does in fact have a grate thingy on it.. Also pulled out a screw driver that I guess the previous owners through in..

However while testing my levels I seem to be having troubles determining the correct levels on this chemical test..

The Chlorine looks like its 3.0 Tho my mother thinks its at 5.0.. As for the PH this image doesn't really do it to much justice as I thought it was 7.6 while it looks like in the picture a 7.8 Suppose I can do an acid test on that and compare.. However for the Chlorine how can I be more sure? Its been slowly degrading over the few days as I havn't added more chlorine in, tho I'm thinking about doing another shock..



As for the pool it looks better than this, I think it looks a little cloudy because I spent the night vacuuming it so small dust might have popped up..