Cloudy 24 feet above ground pool

[PoolDoc]

Do the pool store really sell a 10% sodium hypochlorite?

They sell bleach that WAS 10% when it was bottled. Whether it IS 10% when it gets to your pool is unlikely in most places. But, in Florida a lot of stores have a bleach delivery 2 - 3x per week and fill reusable containers with fresh bleach. If that's what your store has . . . . it's probably a good deal.

I have been hosing it down and I even bought a cartridge bath for it. I let it soak in bleach for a few hours.

Read the cartridge cleaning guide . . . and then use TSP + bleach; not just bleach alone.

I feel so discriminated against by the pool service companies. When I say I have an above ground pool. I get this silence on the phone or a look when I inquire in person. Then I get the "NO, SORRY". I don't see a difference a pool, is a pool and money, is money....

You're being discriminated against, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Business has to go 2 ways: sellers can chose their customers and buyers can choose who they buy from. I don't fully understand how people got the idea that it was unfair for a seller to decide, "No, I don't want to sell to that market".

I do it here, all the time: I exclude Russians and Chinese because 99.9+% of the people who register from those places are hackers or spammers. If you've got a pool in Russia --you're out of luck. I block Russian IP space as fast as I find it! I can't afford to sift through 999 hackers to find one legit pool owner.

But, even here, I discriminate. I'm almost certain I blew off a guy this spring who was a spammer in Rats Mouth, Florida (Boca Raton) . . . but he lived there and had a pool there. I didn't care to spend any more time digging; once I discovered he'd done some spamming, I just blew him off.

And, it's perfectly reasonable for pool guys to blow off AG pool owners. YOU might be a good customer, but as a class AG pool owners are not. A service guy who tries to serve them will go broke in a summer, on any business model I'm familiar with. The reasons are too complex to explain here.

I did the same thing, with commercial service customers. I got LOTS of calls from hotels, motels and apartment complexes. But after a few experiences, I just made up excuses to get them off the phone: working for them was a seriously money-losing process. It can be done in Florida where there are strict, and strictly enforced pool codes. But not in Tennessee or Georgia, where many counties have no code, and even places they do inspect the pools only 1 or 2x per summer.

It makes sense, to someone who's never been in business for themselves, to tell businesses you have to serve ALL potential customers, no matter whether you can make money doing so or not. But, all small business people understand that doing so is to get on a fast train to a French style economy, with hardly any entrepreneurial business development. And, of course even then, the French discriminate ferociously against non-French.

Yes, we are on a well. I don't know the readings/metals, etc. We have a whole house filter and salt water conditioner system. The whole house runs of it.

Do you fill the pool with 'softened water'?