Stain Removal Questions

[PoolDoc]

Suitup,

There are all sorts of places you can go for products and instructions for removing stains. Many of them are simple and easy. You don't have to follow instructions well, to use those products or methods. I think that's what you're looking for -- an easy, simple way to remove stains. Occasionally, these methods work. Often they don't, but at least they are simple!

The method I've described -- and posted -- here is not simple; it's complicated. Worse, you not only have to follow the instructions, you have to follow them in EXACTLY the right order for the process to work.

Since I first posted the method, we've had some failures occur. I don't like it when things I recommend fail; it embarrasses me a lot. So, I've backed off on helping people with it, until I'm sure they can succeed with it. And at this point, I'm pretty sure that people who can't spend 30 seconds completing a pool chart, aren't going to spend 30 minutes carefully reading a complex strain removal process.

So honestly, I'd rather you call Jacks' Magic, and buy all the stuff they recommend, and dump it in. It might work; sometimes it does. But, if it fails, it's THEIR method failing, not mine. And if it succeeds, that's great. As I've often said, it's usually better to be lucky than smart!

I may be able to figure out how to make the method here simpler. And, if I do, and you have stains again, you're welcome to try again.

Good luck!

[SuitUp]

What stain removal process are you referring to? I tried Jacks magic last year and it did not work. If you have a stain removal process on this website can you please supply a link or point me in the right direction? I'm not looking for a simple solution, but with my FC at 0 and high temps the next week I had to either try it, or give up and rechlorinate.

Right now the AA has removed most of the stains. I do not want them to come back. It did lighten the heavy organic stains in the deep end, but I would be very happy if you have a process to follow for that, aside from draining and acid wash, which I have considered.

[Cookieman]

Here is link to AA procedure. It is posted as a sticky by alyad at top of this category. I began trying it July 31. Still working with it. I am not certain I put enough HEDP in it - only dose on bottle. Used Kem Tek Calcium&Metal Eliminator and am using JacksMagicPinkStuff now - both recommended by forum. This time am making sure I am keeping more of the HEDP in the water than before. PoolDoc is the expert, so I continue to read and try to figure out what I might be doing wrong. My stains have come back every time I get my chlorine back to minimum levels 3.0 - 4.0 with PH of 7.2. Good luck.

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...acid-treatment